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Lithuania

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Structure of earnings survey 2014 (earn_ses2014)

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Compiling agency: Statistics Lithuania

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The statistical Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) provides detailed and comparable information on relationships between the level of gross earnings, personal characteristics of employees (sex, age, occupation, length of service, highest educational level attained, etc.) and their employer (economic activity, size of the enterprise). The results are relevant for making economic, job and social security-related decisions.

The SES has been carried out since 2002 every four years at the individual level (by employees) and is based on the relevant regulating legal acts of the European Union. The data were collected from local units as well as from enterprises, institutions and organizations if they do not have local units with one and more employees using the questionnaire DUS-01. Administrative data, namely data on “the number of employees in the enterprise” were used from the State Social Insurance Fund Board (SODRA).

The survey period is the year 2014, October was chosen as a representative month of the reference year.

Lithuania has no regions; therefore the SES data are provided only at the NUTS 1 level.

Not Applicable

Gross earnings refers to remuneration in cash covering the basic wage and bonuses, payable by the employer to the employee directly, including social insurance contributions and income tax payable by the employee. Gross remunerationdoes not include material allowances, allowances for sick leave paid irrespective of sources of finance, cash compensations for unused annual vacation, severance pay, etc.

Average gross hourly earnings are gross earnings per hour paid for (before taxes).

Average number of employees in full-time units is the sum of two indicators: number of full-time employees and that of part-time employees converted into full-time units.

Hours paid for are hours actually worked (normal and overtime), including hours not worked but paid for (such as annual leave, paid idle-time, etc.) in accordance with the procedure laid down by law or in a collective agreement.

Statistical unit compiles a local unit of an enterprise of any type and form of ownership or an enterprise if it has no local units and an employee.

The statistical population consists of enterprises, institutions and organisations of all types and forms of ownership engaged in economic activities from B to S (according to NACE Rev. 2) and having one and more employees.

The data cover whole country.

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The source of statistical information is the Structure of Earnings Survey questionnaire DUS-01 and the administrative data – the data of the State Social Insurance Fund Board under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour (Sodra).

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The time interval between the release of the publication and the end of the reference period was 21 months.

No differences between European and National concepts and definitions.

The time series of the indicator is not fully comparable. Data of the SES 2006 and 2002 are not directly comparable because the SES in 2002 did not cover individual enterprises. Data, excluding individual enterprises, are totally comparable. Surveys in 2002 and 2006 covered economic activities defined in sections from C to O of EVRK Rev. 1.1. The occupations of employees were classified according to the Lithuanian Classification of Occupations (LCO 2000 and LCO 2005), which is based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88 and ISCO-88 (COM)). In the 2010 and 2014 surveys, statistical data were collected from economic activities from B to S according NACE Rev. 2. Occupations of employees are classified according to the Lithuanian Classification of Occupations LCO 2008, which is based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08).

No specific changes in definitions, coverage and methods occurred in 2014 compared to previous surveys.