Labour Statistics: Time Series of Basic Indicators
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The Czech Statistical Office is hereby publishing a summary of retrospective labour statistics spanning the period of 1948-2001, for the first time in electronic form only. As the character of the publication is different, tables have been renumbered, compared with preceding year.
The data originate from surveys among businesses or from administrative sources. Depending on the number of employees, the survey among businesses is either a full survey or a sample survey. In case of the latter, grossing up to the universe covers all active units included in the Business Register (unless otherwise stated).
This publication shows trends in the most significant indicators broken down by CZ-NACE activity and region.
Workers in the national economy comprise registered employees, private entrepreneurs and contributing family workers (main job holders only). The registered number of employees includes persons under employment contracts (both main and second jobs) and members of cooperatives having employment contracts; it excludes females on maternity leave and additional child-care leave, persons on parental leave, temporary members of the armed forces (incl. those on compulsory community service), apprentices, persons engaged by companies under contracts for work outside employment, employees of part of the Ministry of Defence of the CR and the Ministry of the Interior of the CR, persons in public office (deputies, senators, councillors at all levels), judges, etc. The numbers of workers and employees refer to actual persons and include, in compliance with the methodology in force, foreigners legally working in the Czech Republic.
Starting with 1998, the numbers of workers are taken from the results of CZSO annual statistical reports. Data for earlier years of the 1990’s are taken from the results of quarterly statistical reports adjusted by annual surveys data (plus, for some years, by expert estimates for businesses not included in the sample). The data are complemented by numbers of judges (from administrative sources).
The 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 charged to be paid to employees in a given period. This applies to gross wages, i.e. before reduction by comprehensive health insurance and social insurance premiums, advance income tax of natural persons, and other statutory or with the employee agreed deductions.
Data on the number of employees and their average gross monthly wages cover all employees registered by businesses classified to:
a) the business sphere
– with 100 employees and over from 1990,
– with 25 employees and over from 1992 (in industry, trade, hotels and restaurants in 1995 and 1996: with 100 employees and over),
– with 20 employees and over since 1997, incl. employees of unincorporated entrepreneurs,
– irrespective of the number of employees in financial intermediation;
b) the non-business sphere, i.e. employees of all organisations fully or partially funded from the state or local budget, and of non-profit institutions (e.g. companies of benefit to the public, health insurance companies, etc.).
Tables 12, 13, 16, 17, 30, 31, 32, and 33 refer to districts where employees really worked (a method known as the workplace approach), and not to where the head office was located. Data in Tables 21, 22, and 34 are based on sources of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic.
Data in Table 19 result from sample surveys on wages of employees. Analysing these data, we should take into consideration that no grossing up to the universe of the whole national economy has been made. This is why these results cannot be compared to those of a regular statistical survey on wages. The data cover a sample of employees with 1 700 paid hours or more in 1996-2000 and 1 592 hours or more in 2001, which roughly corresponds to full-time employees who worked with the reporting unit for a large part of the year and were not on the sick list for a long time. (The different number of paid hours since 2001 results from an amendment to the Code of Labour concerning the counting of lunch break into hours worked; therefore, the comparability of the time series has not been violated.) More detailed information from the sample surveys on wages of employees, incl. the methodology and sample size, can be found in the CZSO publications “Structure of Earnings Survey for [the given year]”. Our classification of wages by occupation was governed by CZ-ISCO-88.
Data in Table 20 (Structure of Labour Costs) cover the employer’s costs of recruiting and training employees, paying wages, and ensuring social needs of employees. The survey is carried out in businesses of all industries irrespective of the number of employees – employees of unincorporated entrepreneurs are not included.
The publication is concluded with Tables No. 30 and higher that are not supposed to be included in next publications. These are tables with data classified by districts and former regions, which have already been substituted by tables containing data converted to comply with the new territorial subdivisions (NUTS 3), or tables with data that will be unavailable in next years. Tables containing historical data will further be available on request at the Employment and Wages Statistics Department.
Prague, December 2002
Anna P o r u b s k á
Employment and Wages
Statistics Department
Employment and Wages
Statistics Department
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The data are valid as of the release date of the publication.
The data are valid as of the release date of the publication.