Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche
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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)