Labour force survey data provide information on some key socio-economic characteristics of benefit recipients which are typically not available in administrative data sources, but have limits of their own. Most importantly, information pertaining to benefit recipiency in labour force surveys is often subject to underreporting bias and misclassification (Immervoll, 2004). For this reason, the section below focuses on the distribution of benefit recipients, instead of the absolute level of benefit recipiency, according to various characteristics.