1. Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies www.wiiw.ac.at Labour Accounts - NMS Sebastian Leitner and Hermine Vidovic EU KLEMS 2 nd Consortium Meeting 9-11 June, Helsinki

2. 2 Sources of NA series on labour volumes: A) Employment (all countries; persons) > Czech RepublicEnterprise stat. reporting; administrative data (e.g.ministries) > HungaryLFS > PolandEnterprise Statistics > SlovakiaEnterprise and Establishment Surveys > SloveniaEmployment Register; income tax declaration

3. 3 Sources of NA series on labour volumes: B)Hours worked (available for CZ, SK) > Czech RepublicEnterprise stat. reporting (June 2005) > Hungaryn.a. > Polandn.a. > SlovakiaEnterprise & Establishment Survey > Slovenian.a.

4. 4 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

5. 5 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)

6. 6 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

7. 7 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

8. 8 EDR-Employment Data Reconciliation contd > 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)