Definition: ILO current activity status

Category: Social statistics

ILO current activity status (at the time of the interview) is a constructed index based on activity concepts defined by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Persons aged 16 or more have been classified by main activity according to the information they provided during the interview.
The following categories have been defined:
 - (Economically) active - 'Labour force';
 - (Economically) inactive.
Source:
Eurostat, "European Community Household Panel (ECHP) - Selected indicators from the 1995 wave", Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1999
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