# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1640 of 12 August 2020 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the number and the title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain (Text with EEA relevance) EU Regulation 2020/1640 · adopted 12 August 2020 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1640 of 12 August 2020 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the number and the title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain (Text with EEA relevance) PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1640/pdf/eur_20201640_adopted_en.pdf ## Introductory text Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1640 of 12 August 2020 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying the number and the title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019 establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples, amending Regulations (EC) No 808/2004, (EC) No 452/2008 and (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98, and in particular Article 6(1) thereof, Whereas: (1) To cover the needs identified in the relevant detailed topics, the Commission should specify the number and title of the variables for the data set in the labour force domain. (2) The Commission should establish the number and title of the variables on the ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on the detailed topic ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain. (3) The number of variables to be collected should not exceed by more than 5 % the number of variables collected for the labour force domain at the time when Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 entered into force, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: ## 1 The number and the titles of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and of the eight-yearly variables for ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain are set out in the Annex. ## 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. ## Signature This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 12 August 2020. For the Commission The President Ursula von der Leyen ## Number and title of the variables for the 2022 ad hoc subject ‘job skills’ and the eight-yearly variables on ‘pension and labour market participation’ in the labour force domain Topic Detailed topic Variable identifier Variable name 03c. Labour market participation – 11 collected variables (11 relating to an ad hoc subject) Job skills DIGITAL Time spent on working on digital devices in main or last job READING Time spent on reading work-related manuals and technical documents in main or last job CALCULATE Time spent on doing relatively complex calculations in main or last job PHYSICAL Time spent on doing hard physical work in main or last job DEXTERITY Time spent on tasks involving finger dexterity in main or last job COMMINT Time spent on interacting with people from the same enterprise or organisation in main or last job COMMEXT Time spent on interacting with people from outside the enterprise or organisation in main or last job GUIDANCE Time spent on advising, training or teaching other people in main or last job JOBAUTON Degree of autonomy on tasks in main or last job REPETITIVE Repetitiveness of tasks in main or last job PROCEDURE Tasks precisely described by strict procedures in main or last job 03d. Labour market participation – 11 collected variables (11 eight-yearly) Pension and labour market participation PENSTYP1 Old age pension AGEPENSO Age at which the person started receiving an old age pension STATRECE First statutory old age pension receipt with reduction or bonus PENSTYP2 Disability pension and other disability periodic cash benefit AGEPENSD Age at which the person started receiving the disability pension or other disability periodic cash benefits PROVTYPE Financial old age provisions PENSSITU Situation at beginning of old age pension receipt WSTPREAS Main reason to stop working with the beginning of the old age pension receipt WCONREAS Main reason to continue working with old age pension receipt LMREENT Re-enter the labour market after beginning of old age pension receipt LMENTREAS Main reason to re-enter the labour market --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/1640 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-1640 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 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