Index of hours worked in industrial enterprises

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 changes in the time worked 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 engaged in industrial activity (i.e. listed in sections B, C, D and Division 36 of Section E of EVRK Rev. 2).

Hours worked is the total number of hours worked by employees during the reference quarter. This includes all hours worked, including overtime, night work, working on weekends and public holidays; time spent on preparation for work, short rest periods; time spent at the place of work during which no work is done (due to technical obstacles) but for which payment is made in accordance with the legislation or collective agreement. Hours paid for but not worked (such as sickness, strike, annual leave) are excluded.

Index of hours worked represents changes in the time worked over a certain period of time.

Kind-of-activity unit (KAU)

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 hours worked in industry enterprises (2015 – 100).

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Eurostat’s database

Industry

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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 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 sample frame is based on the information from the Statistical Business Register about the number of employees and income of enterprises. Companies are divided into strata according to the kind of 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 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 “Hours worked” are coherent with structural business statistics (SBS), labour statistics.

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Average time spent by a respondent on the filling-in of a statistical survey questionnaire in 2019 – 34 minutes.

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 index for the previous quarter is revised on a quarterly basis.

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Primary statistical data are collected using the following monthly questionnaires: Monthly industrial enterprise activity questionnaire P-11 (sections B and C). For sections D and E36, the following statistical questionnaires are used: Monthly natural gas supply questionnaire PD-11, Monthly electrical energy generation questionnaire PEG-11, Monthly electrical energy transmission questionnaire PEP-11, Monthly electrical energy distribution and supply questionnaire PET-11, Monthly heat generation and distribution questionnaire PŠ-11, Monthly water collection and distribution questionnaire PV-11.

Quarterly.

Statistical data are collected through an electronic statistical data preparation and transfer system e-Statistics, email, fax, mail. Survey questionnaires (only in Lithuanian).

Statistical data quality control requirements are provided in a survey programming work technical specification. The error protocol, the completeness and reliability of the statistical data entered are checked, links between indicators are analysed, etc. Statistical data are corrected taking into account the type of error – some errors may be ignored, while others must be corrected. A decision on whether to correct the error that may be ignored is taken by an employee checking the filled-in questionnaires. The errors that must be corrected are always corrected.  To ensure statistical data quality, additional primary database check (re-editing) is performed. After summary results have been obtained, statistical data are compared with those for the previous period and the same period of the previous year, as well as with data from other surveys (structural business, labour statistics).

The indicator “Hours worked” is calculated based on the data on enterprises sampled for the statistical survey. The estimates are computed using regular stratified random sampling formulae (ratio estimator). The index of hours worked 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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