Technical note - Workplace injury and work-related illness survey modules of the Labour Force Survey (LFS): Background and survey methods
Background and methods
- Overview of the technical note
- About the Labour Force Survey (LFS)
- The Self-reported Work-related Illness (SWI) and Workplace Injury modules of the LFS
- Comparability of LFS data over time
- Reliability of self-reported work-related illness
- Annex 1 – Module of questions on workplace injury
- Annex 2 – Module of questions on work-related illness
Survey methods
- Weighting LFS survey data to get population based estimates
- Measures of workplace injury: Definitions and formulae
- Measures of work-related illness: Definitions and formulae
- Measures of working days lost: Definitions and formulae
- Presentation of estimates
- Calculation of full-day equivalent working days lost estimates and rates
- Sampling errors and confidence intervals