Data delivery By January 15 th –Employment Annual series employees and self employed separately for 72 industries in Prodsys readable form Full series from early 1990s As much division as feasible back to 1970 National accounts as control totals 1 or 2 page document on how the national accounts totals are constructed By Dec 3 rd NIESR will have responded to each partner with suggestions/refinements for reformatting data files to make them prodsys compatible

Data delivery By January 15 th –Hours employees and self employed (hours per employee) Annual series for 72 industries in Prodsys readable form allowing assumption that hours are the same within sub industries Average annual actual hours figure that corresponds with the national accounts measure –Any revisions from this point on will only be to the data not to the format of the file By January 22 nd –Feedback on the data files to partners Up to mid-March additional feedback possible

Data delivery Labour quality Template to be circulated by NIESR before Christmas Mid march for preliminary data – head counts and wage rates Final data by the middle of the summer Split by age and skill and genders Hours by type of labour is not expected but feel free to deliver!

Data delivery Labour quality Minimum requirements At least three age groups More disaggregation is fine, but do stick within these boundaries

Data delivery At least three skill groups, –University graduates –intermediate –Leaving school at age 16 preferably 5 skill groups –University graduate –Higher education below degree –Intermediate vocational plus advanced education –Low intermediate plus low education –No skills

Data delivery Industry breakdown of labour quality –Subject to minimum sample size –We will send round the agreed list of industries as a minimum requirement.