Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic

      The figures provided in this part of Chapter 10 (Tables 10-1 to 10-8) were obtained by a survey taken in businesses or from administrative sources. Depending on the number of employees the survey taken in businesses is of either 100% or sample type. Results of the latter are grossed up to basic population to cover all active units incorporated in the CZSO Business Register (unless indicated otherwise).

      Before 1998, data on the number of workers were derived from the results of processing CZSO quarterly statistical questionnaires corrected according to data from annual surveys (and for some years also from expert guesses for non-surveyed businesses). Between 1998 and 1999, the source of the data was the results of processing CZSO annual statistical questionnaires. with regard to , respectively, the latter being corrected with data from annual surveys). The data concerning the year 2000 are preliminary, while those for 2001 and 2002 are estimates. They will be updated after the results of processing the annual statistical questionnaires are verified and evaluated, also with regard to information on the economic activity of enterprises available in administrative sources.

      Workers in the national economy (both manual and non-manual) include employees and private entrepreneurs (with main job only).

      Registered number of employees includes persons under employment contracts (both main and second jobs) and members of cooperatives having employment contract. It excludes females on maternity leave and child-care leave, persons on parental leave, and temporary members of the armed forces (including persons on compulsory community service), apprentices, persons engaged by companies under contracts for work outside employment.

      Average registered number of employees per year is the arithmetic mean of twelve average monthly numbers of employees (calculated as the sum of daily numbers divided by calendar days in the month concerned).

      Average gross monthly wage is the ratio of wages excluding other personnel expenses per employee per month. Included in the wages are basic wages and salaries, payments additional to wage or salary, direct remuneration and bonuses, remuneration for being on call to work, and other wage or salary components of charged to be paid to employees in a given period. They are gross wages i.e., before premiums for general health insurance and social security, income tax advances of natural persons, and other statutory deductions or deductions agreed with the employee.

      The numbers of workers and employees and the average monthly gross wages exclude employees of businesses not statistically measured and persons performing public office (deputies, senators, councillors at all levels, etc.). In contrast to the statistical yearbooks of the previous years, the circuit of the entities included in this Yearbook was expanded to also cover parts of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of the Interior not published before (the data for 1993 and later years were converted to be governed by the same methodology) - this applies to Tables 10-1 to 10-4 and Table 1. Key national economy indicators.

      The tabulated data on workers, employees, and average monthly gross wages in individual industries correspond to the Branch Classification of Economic Activities - OKEČ (CZ-NACE). They refer to businesses classified to the business and non-business spheres (i.e. government departments, organisations semi-subsidised from state or local budgets, and non-profit institutions), which is why they differ from data on workers, employees and wages in the chapters on individual industries, which refer to the business sphere only). The average monthly gross wages and hours worked in Table 10-5 are broken down by age and major groups of CZ-ISCO-88 classification.

      Monthly labour costs are costs spent by the employer to recruit and educate/train employees, remunerate them for work and cover their social needs. The survey on the costs is taken in businesses in all industries irrespective of the number of employees; employees of unincorporated natural persons and of part of the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of the Interior are excluded. The data were drawn from the results of the processing of CZSO annual statistical questionnaire.

      Registered job applicants are citizens staying permanently in respective area, who have no formal job or similar attachment to an employer, are not gainfully self-employed, and have asked an employment agency to find a job for them.

      Registered unemployment rate is the ratio of registered job applicants to the labour force available (i.e. employed persons established by the LFSS plus job applicants).

      The following indicators do not correspond to ILO definitions and recommendations:

• workers in the national economy
• average monthly gross wage
• registered job applicants
• registered unemployment rate.

Notes on tables

Tables 10-3 and 10-4 . Employees and average monthly gross wages

      Figures in these tables were taken over from the results of the processing of quarterly statistical questionnaires and cover all employees registered by businesses classified to:

a) the business sphere

• with 25 employees and over since 1992 (in industry, trade, hotels and restaurants in 1995 and 1996: with 100 employees and over),
• with 20 employees and over since 1997, including employees of unincorporated self-employed persons,
• irrespective of the number of employees in financial intermediation;

Table 10-5. Average monthly gross wage and paid hours of employees: by CZ-ISCO-88 major group and age group

      The data are taken from the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs' Information System on Average Earnings (ISAE). They are obtained by a sample survey into businesses with 10+ employees. The average wage resulting from this survey is at variance with the average wage obtained via CZSO business surveys (Tables 10-3 and 10-4). The ISAE gives information on individual employees, while the business surveys are focused on registered numbers of employees and the volume of wages of the whole of the business. The ISAE average wage is calculated in relation to paid hours of the employee (it is free of unpaid absence of the employee from work - e.g. absence due to illness. It also excludes employees whose number of hours of work under contract is less than 30. On the other hand, the average wage obtained via the CZSO business surveys is derived in relation to the registered number of employees (employees with a short unpaid absence are included), irrespective of the number of hours of work per week under contract.

      The data shown in Part 10A. Labour are fully comparable with those released in Chapter 1. Key National Economy Indicators in this Yearbook. The data listed in Tables 10-1 to 10-4 are not comparable with the data listed in the Statistical Yearbook 2002. Differences, if any, are commented on in the notes on the individual tables.

      Parts A and B of this chapter give numbers of employed persons or workers obtained from two different sources and survey methods, from business reporting systems and the labour force sample survey (LFSS) taken in households. Given the fact that the results do not always show identical numbers of persons, structures and trends, the following table is given here to show substantial differences in the coverage of the basic population.

Detailed information is available in the following CZSO publications brought out according to the CZSO Catalogue of Publications 2003 (group 3 - LABOUR, SOCIAL STATISTICS, subgroup 31 - Labour and Wages):

quarterly::

• "Evidenční počet zaměstnanců a jejich mzdy v ČR" - June, September and December 2003, March 2004

• “Úplné náklady práce za rok 2002 podle výsledků výběrového šetření”- 4th quarter of 2003
• “Vývoj úplných nákladů práce (1994-2002)” - 4th quarter of 2003
• “Mzdy zaměstnanců za rok 2002 (z výběrového šetření)” - July 2003
• “Mzdová diferenciace zaměstnanců v roce 2002" - 3rd quarter of 2003
• “Časové řady základních ukazatelů statistiky práce (1948-2002)” - December 2003.