Job quality and labour market performance

Appendix 1- Variables included in the Principal Components Analysis⁴

Laeken indicators

Job satisfaction: % of workers who declare that they are satisfied or very satisfied with their
working conditions, 2006. Source: the Fourth European Working Conditions Survey,
(Eurofound website).

Participation in education and training, 2006. Source: LFS (Compendium).

Participation in education and training (55-64 years old), 2006. Source: LFS (Compendium).

Participation in education and training (unemployed), 2006. Source: LFS (Compendium).

Share of the workforce working with computers (PCs, network, mainframe), 2006. Source: the
Fourth European Working Conditions Survey, (Eurofound website).

Difference between men’s and women’s average gross hourly earning as percentage of average
men’s hourly earnings (for paid employees at work), 2001. Source: National sources and ECHP,
Eurostat (Compendium).

Employment gap between men and women, 2006. Source: LFS (Eurostat website).

Gender unemployment gap, 2006. Source: LFS (Eurostat website).

Occupational segregation, 2006. Source: LFS (Compendium).

Sectorial segregation, 2006. Source: LFS (Compendium).

The evolution of incidence rate defined as the number of serious accidents at work per 100,000
persons in employment, between 1999 and 2004. Source: ESAW (Compendium).

Part-time employment as a percentage of total employment, 2006 (Eurostat website).

Fixed-term contract as a percentage of total employment, 2006 (Eurostat website).

Involuntary part-time as % of part-time employment, 2006. (Eurostat website).

Involuntary fixed-term contracts as % of fixed-term contracts, 2006. (Eurostat website).

15-64 years old employment rate, 2006. Source: LFS (Eurostat website).

Long-term unemployment rate, 2006. Source: LFS (site Eurostat website).

Early school-leavers (defined as the percentage of the population aged 18-24 with at most lower
secondary education (ISCED level 2) and not in further education or training, 2006. Source:
LFS (Compendium).

Youth unemployment ratio: total unemployed young people (15-24 years) as a share of total
population in the same brackets, 2006. Source: LFS (Compendium).

Employment impact of parenthood for men: the difference in percentage points in employment
rates without the presence of any children and with the presence of a child aged 0-6, 2006.
Source: LFS (Compendium).

Employment impact of parenthood for women: the difference in percentage points in
employment rates without the presence of any children and with the presence of a child aged 0-
6, 2006. Source: LFS (Compendium).

Childcare: children cared for (by other formal arrangements than family) as a proportion of all
children of the same age group (<3 years old), 2006. Source: national sources (Compendium).

Childcare: children cared for (by other formal arrangements than family) as a proportion of all
children of the same age group (from 3 years old to compulsory school age), 2006. Source:
national sources (Compendium).

⁴ Source: Davoine et al. (2008a and b).

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