Translation of "labour force survey quality report " (English → French) :

Grants that are provided for the purpose of carrying out labour force surveys may take the form of lump sums.

As I am sure you're all aware, the labour force survey is a household survey carried out monthly by Statistics Canada and provides high quality estimates of employment and unemployment that are among the most timely and important measures of performance of the Canadian economy.

16. While emphasising that SSGI must not be defined by their economic impact, notes the Commission’s second biennial report and confirms that SSGI make a major economic contribution in terms of jobs, economic activity and purchasing power and that the health and social services sector accounts for 5% of economic output and employs 21.4 million people; notes that the CEEP, in its report, ‘Mapping of Public Services,’ also confirmed that health and social activities account for 9.6 % of EU employment, and 9.4 % of GDP; notes that the 2008 Labour Force ...[+++] Survey shows that women account for 79 % of the workforce in health services, 81 % in residential care services and 83 % in non-residential care services; notes also that an SME representative body, UEAPME, takes the view that SMEs need high-quality, efficient SSGI in order to operate successfully; calls on the Member States also to take into account gender-equality principles; notes that the promotion of inclusive labour markets, prevention and rehabilitation will lead to cost savings and improve quality of delivery in the longer term;

16. While emphasising that SSGI must not be defined by their economic impact, notes the Commission's second biennial report and confirms that SSGI make a major economic contribution in terms of jobs, economic activity and purchasing power and that the health and social services sector accounts for 5% of economic output and employs 21.4 million people; notes that the CEEP, in its report, ‘Mapping of Public Services,’ also confirmed that health and social activities account for 9.6 % of EU employment, and 9.4 % of GDP; notes that the 2008 Labour Force ...[+++] Survey shows that women account for 79 % of the workforce in health services, 81 % in residential care services and 83 % in non-residential care services; notes also that an SME representative body, UEAPME, takes the view that SMEs need high-quality, efficient SSGI in order to operate successfully; calls on the Member States also to take into account gender-equality principles; notes that the promotion of inclusive labour markets, prevention and rehabilitation will lead to cost savings and improve quality of delivery in the longer term;

The information we use comes from a broad range of sources including, but not limited to the census, such as the labour force survey, the Canadian community health survey, the survey of labour and income dynamics, uniform crime reporting survey, the transition home survey, the victim services survey, the homicide survey, and more.

From the point of view of measuring employment, the report states that the Council this year adopted a regulation on the implementation of a continuous labour force survey which, when applied in all the Member States, will provide high-quality statistics on employment levels.