Index of wages and salaries in industry

Statistics Lithuania

Short Term Business Statistics Division

Tatjana Kučeiko

Chief specialist

29 Gedimino Ave., LT-01500 Vilnius, Lithuania

tatjana.kuceiko@stat.gov.lt

+370 5 236 4643

+370 5 236 4749

2020-09-22

The objective of the indicator is to show the development and changes in wages and salaries in industrial enterprises.

National version (EVRK Rev. 2) of the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE Rev. 2)

Non-financial enterprises listed in sections B, C, D and Division 36 of Section E of EVRK Rev. 2.

Wages and salaries refers to remuneration payable to the employee in return for the work done in cash, goods, services and/or privileges, including income taxes, social insurance contributions, etc. payable by the employee. It includes various bonuses in cash and in kind: allowances, severance pays, gratuity, premiums, compensations, increments. It does not include social insurance contributions payable by the employer, money meant for the purchase of equipment, working clothes, various training courses, expenses on business trips (travel, accommodation), benefits from the State Social Insurance Fund in case of temporary disability (sickness, maternity leave, parental leave before the child has reached the age of three).

Index of the number of wages and salaries represents changes in wages and salaries over a certain period of time.

Kind of activity unit

All types of enterprises with the main economic activity - industrial activities.

The entire economic territory of the country

Since I quarter 1998

2015

Index

Quarter

Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of May 1998 concerning short-term statistics, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 461/2012 of 31 May 2012

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 Statistical information is published on the Official Statistics Portal according to the Official Statistics Calendar

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Quarterly

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Database of Indicators (Business statistics -> Industry -> Quarterly industrial indicators -> Index of wages and salaries in industry enterprises (2015 – 100).

Microdata are available and provided for scientific purposes according to the provisions set in the Description of Procedures for the Provision of Confidential Statistical Data for Scientific Purposes. More information is available on the Official Statistics Portal, at Data for scientific purposes.

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Eurostat’s database

Industry 

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Data quality is in line with the accuracy, timeliness and punctuality, comparability and compatibility requirements. Before the results are presented to users, additional statistical data quality control at the macro data level is performed. Statistical indicator estimates are compared with those from the previous period and the corresponding period of the previous year. The coefficient of variation (relative standard error), used as the main measure of the accuracy of estimate, does not exceed 3 per cent.

The collection and compilation of statistical information was not affected by COVID-19.

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The indicator is published at the level of sections B, C, D and Division 36 of Section E of EVRK Rev. 2 and by main industrial groupings. The contents of the indicator comply with the EU requirements.

100 per cent of information produced in accordance with the Official Statistics Programme Part I is published.

The survey is conducted using a sampling method. The sampling frame is based on information from the Statistical Business Register about the number of employees and income of enterprises. Enterprises are assigned to strata according to activity and the number of employees. The sample size is divided into strata by reducing the variance of estimates of the number of employees at a fixed sample size. The sample represents about 80 per cent of the total number of employees and about 95 per cent of the total income.

The collection and compilation of statistical information was not affected by COVID-19.

Statistical information is published on the 90th day after the end of the reference quarter.

Statistical information is published in accordance with an Official Statistics Calendar. In case of delay, users are notified in advance by indicating the reason and a new date of publication.

100 per cent

Statistical information is comparable across the EU.

Full comparability is ensured.

Since I quarter 1998

The values of the indicator “Wages and salaries” are coherent with structural business statistics (SBS), labour statistics.

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An administrative data source is used.

The revision policy of Statistics Lithuania is provided in the document General Principles behind the Performance, Analysis and Announcement of Revisions of Statistical Indicators.

The results published are final and not revised later.

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Administrative data source – data of the State Social Insurance Fund Board (Sodra).

Quarterly

To calculate the indicator, data are taken from the Sodra database.

In order to ensure data quality, verification procedures are followed: the completeness of the primary dataset is checked, labour input indicators (the number of hours worked, persons employed, wages and salaries) are compared at the unit level; the average values of labour input indicators are calculated. The results are compared to the previous period and to the corresponding period of the previous year.

The indicator “Wages and salaries” is calculated based on the data on enterprises sampled for the statistical survey. The index of wages and salaries is calculated in comparison with the quarterly average of 2015 (base year). The process of the preparation of statistical information is described in the industrial enterprise activity statistical survey methodology (only in Lithuanian).

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