Labour Force Transitions around First Childbirth in the Netherlands

Statistical Matching in ‘Labour Force’ and ‘Time Use’ Surveys

Abstract. In the National Statistical Systems‎, ‎some parts of the official statistics required for development planning and evidence base management are collected through sampling survey‎. ‎Due to the high cost of sampling process‎, ‎as well as nonresponses‎, ‎it may not be possible to collect all of the expected variables in a survey‎.‎In order to obtain a comprehensive and complete source o...

First Aid in Childbirth

WHO Better Outcomes in Labour Difficulty (BOLD) project: innovating to improve quality of care around the time of childbirth

As most pregnancy-related deaths and morbidities are clustered around the time of childbirth, quality of care during this period is critical to the survival of pregnant women and their babies. Despite the wide acceptance of partograph as the central tool to optimize labour outcomes for over 40 years, its use has not successfully improved outcomes in many settings for several reasons. There are ...

The Examination of Employees Statistical Conformity from the Labour Force Survey with the Administrative Records

Programming in the employment fields is the most important and fundamental need of the country, which requires labour force indexes during the periods of time. Now, Statistical Centre of Iran, as the resource of the official statistics in the country is accountable for presenting those data, but other organizations and offices in the country present the relevant figures on this field in lower l...

Transitions to retirement: a dynamic approach to the labour-market behaviour of older workers in the Netherlands

This paper aims at analysing labour market transitions of older workers (aged 50 and older) using the Dutch Socio-Economic Panel for the period of 1990 to 1998. The Netherlands are of special interest because they are among the countries with the lowest participation rates of older workers, both for men and women. In this paper, multinomial regression models are estimated for transitions from e...