Description of variables
Article 3
1. The description and technical format of the quarterly, annual, biennial variables and the eight-yearly variables on the detailed topic ‘labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants’ and the coding to be used for the data transmission and the variables to be included in the minimum set of variables are set out in Annex I of this Regulation. 2. The number of eight-yearly variables to be collected in a given year shall not exceed 11, except in the case of: (a) the detailed topic on ‘work organisation and working time arrangements’, for which the number of variables shall not exceed 10 in a given year; and (b) the detailed topics on ‘young people on the labour market’ and on ‘educational attainment — details, including education interrupted or abandoned’, for which the combined number of eight-yearly variables shall not exceed seven in a given year. 3. The number of structural variables to be collected on an ad hoc subject every 4 years shall not exceed 11 in a given year.