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Labour Accounts - NMSSebastian Leitner and Hermine Vidovic

EU KLEMS 2nd Consortium Meeting9-11 June, Helsinki

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Sources of NA series on labour volumes:

A) Employment (all countries; persons)

> Czech Republic Enterprise stat. reporting;

administrative data

(e.g.ministries)

> Hungary LFS

> Poland Enterprise Statistics

> Slovakia Enterprise and

Establishment Surveys

> Slovenia Employment Register;

income tax declaration

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Sources of NA series on labour volumes:

B)Hours worked (available for CZ, SK)

> Czech Republic Enterprise stat. reporting

(June 2005)

> Hungary n.a.

> Poland n.a.

> Slovakia Enterprise &

Establishment Survey

> Slovenia n.a.

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Best sources and methods to construct

labour input volumes

> NA data on employment - available for all countries

(problem HU – LFS)

> NA data on working hours - available only for CZ and SK;

others: LFS and SBS

> Missings (employment): SBS, LFS, EDR

> Missings (working hours): SBS and/or LFS, EDR

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Problems in reconciling different sources

for employment and annual hours worked

SBS versus LFS:

> SBS – enterprises – jobs (annual data); domestic concept

> LFS – households – persons (annual data based on

quarterly averages); national concept; problem of small

sample sizes (esp. Poland): sectors suppressed due to

high CV, fluctuating time series (hours worked)

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Problems in reconciling different sources..

SBS

> excludes non-market (community) services

> Longer time series only on the number of employees;

data on the number of employed are incomplete (esp. PL, SI)

> HU and SK incomplete coverage of small enterprises

> Hours worked: by employees only; excluding PL;

different time horizons

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EDR-Employment Data Reconciliation(PHARE programme 2000)

> Reconciliaton of data on employment, hours worked

and wages from different data sources in CZ, HU, PL,

SK and SI

> Construction of labour acounts according to domestic

concept; comparable with SNA

> Breakdowns for employees and self-employed (and

partly for hours worked and compensation of

employees) by age, gender, level of education on

sectoral level

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EDR-Employment Data Reconciliation

cont‘d

> Data available at A17 level for CZ, HU and

A30 level for SK, 1995-2001period

> Individual EDR-country reports available

> Continued in SK for the construction of

labour accounts (NA employment data)