1. LAMAS Working Group 20-21 January 2016
Agenda Item 2.4 Gender Pay Gap

2. Data collection for GPG 2013
Collection in December 2014
No data from Greece and Ireland
Eurostat launched an action plan for Greece aiming at re-establishing regular data transmissions from ELSTAT to Eurostat
Greece has committed itself to provide the missing annual estimates by the end of the last year
Ireland informed Eurostat that the 2013 data will be provided in December 2015

3. Latest data collection for GPG 2014
Data collection launched on 9 November 2015
Deadline on 14 December 2015
All the countries, except France, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland, provided GPG data
Among the countries which transmitted data, Austria, Cyprus and Iceland have not provided the mean hourly earnings of men and women
As regards the NACE breakdown, all countries have transmitted the corresponding GPG data except Austria

4. The European Equal Pay Day
Organised each year by the European Commission (DG Justice)
Data on the Gender Pay Gap (GPG) get high publicity
The date depends on the average gender pay gap at the EU level
The last event took place on 2 November 2015
Referring to GPG2013 data
Symbolizing that women lost 59/365 days of earnings compared to men

5. Gender Pay Gap for 2013 GPG in the EU28 was: 16.3%
Across Member States, it varies from around 3% in Slovenia to almost 30% in Estonia

6. Annual changes between 2011 and 2014
Annual changes of 2 percentage points or over in absolute terms in Estonia, Ireland, Croatia, Hungary and Portugal
Large fluctuations may point to possible inconsistencies between the SES data and the annual estimates
Possible causes of inconsistencies:
Annual GPG not benchmarked on SES2010
Annual sources for GPG too volatile

7. Benchmarking on SES 2014
The annual GPG estimates should be revised on the basis of the 4-yearly Structure of Earnings Survey (SES)
SES 2014 data should be available by the end of June 2016
The national contact persons responsible for the GPG will be asked in February whether they intend to benchmark GPG data themselves or would rely on Eurostat
Eurostat will invite the countries to resubmit GPG data for the period by 30 September 2016

8. Next data collection For reference year 2015
Data request will be sent on 31 October 2016
Deadline on 14 December 2016

9. Calculation of the EU aggregates
The annual GPG for the EU is calculated as the weighted mean of the gender pay gaps in EU Member States ("indirect method")
For SES data, the "direct method" can be used:
EU GPG = (EU mean hourly earnings of men - EU mean hourly earnings of women) / EU mean hourly earnings of men x 100
To ensure consistency Eurostat recommends using the "indirect method" for SES data

10. The members of the LAMAS Working Group are invited:
- To take note of the transmissions of GPG2013 and GPG2014 data and check that GPG series are time- consistent
- To take note that revised GPG data, benchmarked on SES2014, are expected to be transmitted before 30 September 2016
- To take note of the timetable for the transmission of GPG2015 data;
- To take note of the method recommended by Eurostat to calculate the EU Gender Pay Gap

11. Thank you for your attention!