Association d'assurance accident

Service Méthodologie

Association d'assurance accident
L-2976 Luxembourg

The law defines a work-related accident as one that occurred to an insured individual due to work or during work. This very succinct definition has been supplemented by Luxembourg jurisprudence, which specified the constitutive elements of a workplace accident by adopting a definition from the French Court of Cassation. According to this, a workplace accident is characterized by the sudden action of an external cause during work that inflicts an injury to the human body.

The definition of a fatal accident at work at national level is different from the EU level definition.

A fatal accident at work is defined as an accident which has led to the death of the victim at the time of its notification.

The following classifications are used in ESAW:

• NACE Rev. 2: 2^nd revision of the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community managed by Eurostat. For ESAW data NACE Rev. 2 is used from reference year 2008 onwards;
• ISCO-08: International Standard Classification of Occupations managed by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) (revision of 2008). ISCO-08 should be used from reference year 2011 onwards (not all countries use it yet);
• NUTS 2021: Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics. 
• ICSE-93: International Classification by Status in Employment (revision of 1993)

All economic sectors A - S according to NACE Rev. 2 should in principle be covered from reference year 2013 onwards. Before the reference year 2013, there was no obligation to cover sectors outside the so-called 'common branches' A and C – N. However, most Member States covered those non-common sectors C and O – S as well as T and U before on a voluntary basis.

The NACE sectors are (all branches, at one digit level):

Data delivery for sectors T and U is voluntary.

Some sectors and professions are subject to confidentiality rules. According to the ESAW implementing Regulation 349/2011 (annex II), Member States deliver the following NACE Rev. 2 divisions of sector O on a voluntary basis only:
84.22 Defence activities
84.23 Justice and judicial activities
84.24 Public order and safety activities
84.25 Fire services activities

Section '3.6. Statistical population' below gives information about professions (occupations) subject to confidentiality exceptions.

On the Eurostat website, the data tables published in section 'Main indicators' (hsw_mi) cover the 13 common branches A, C-N only.

In the section 'Details by economic activity (NACE Rev. 2, 2008 onwards) (hsw_n2) some data are presented at 1 and 2 digit level of NACE Rev.2 classification.

The ESAW implementing Regulation (see section 11.2 Quality assessment) requires that Member States send data on accidents of 'employees'. Data on accidents of self-employed, family workers and other employment types are voluntary.

COVERAGE OF ECONOMIC SECTORS (NACE), (Annual update expected)

Additional comments on coverage of economic sectors

Codes:

y Sector fully covered
n Sector not covered at all
p Secor partially covered
n.a. Not applicable, i.e. sector does not exist in country

No additional information to the metadata on EU level available. Information corresponds to the EU metadata.

COVERAGE OF ESAW VARIABLES (Annual update expected)

Additional comments on coverage of ESAW variables

Codes:

Coverage
y Variable fully covered
n Variable not covered at all, i.e. variable is so far not collected in country
p Variable partially covered

Days lost
y num Days lost are covered and in data file listed by numbers (004 - 182)
y cat Days lost are covered and in data file listed by categories (A01 - A06)
p num, p cat Days lost are partly covered and listed by numbers (categories)

Type of weight
U weight to correct under-reporting
S weight to account for sampling
Sp weight to correct special sampling

Data are collected for each accident.

If a person is a victim of more than one accident during the reference year, several cases are reported (one for each accident).

If there are several victims in the same event of accident, also several cases are reported (one for each victim).

All accidents at work are covered.

Luxembourg data covers all NACE codes.

The employees of the public sector are distributed over several NACE classes and are only partially covered.
The victim of an accident at work is always employed in Luxembourg, but can be resident or non-resident.

COVERAGE OF PROFESSIONAL STATUS (Annual update expected)

Additional comments on coverage of professionnal status

Codes:

y Professional status fully covered
n Professional status not covered at all
p Professional status partially covered
n.a. Not applicable, i.e. professional status does not exist in country

COVERAGE OF ACCIDENTS OUTSIDE PREMISES (Annual update expected)

Additional comments on coverage of accidents outside premises

Codes:

y Accidents fully covered
n Accidents not covered at all
p Accidents partially covered
F Data of fatal road traffic accidents and fatal accidents on board of any means of transport provided in the main CSV data file
A Data of fatal and non-fatal road traffic accidents as well as fatal and non-fatal accidents on board of any means of transport provided in the main CSV data file

 No additional information to the metadata on EU level available. Information corresponds to the EU metadata.

No additional information to the metadata on EU level available. Information corresponds to the EU metadata.

Not applicable.

The following measurement units are used in ESAW data:

- Numbers of accidents

- Percentages of accidents (in relation to different totals and breakdowns)

- Incidence rates of accidents: number of accidents per 100,000 workers

- Standardised incidence rates: number of accidents per 100,000 workers adjusted for the relative sizes of economic sectors at EU level (see section 18.6 Adjustment for more details)

The calendar year during which the accidents were reported to have taken place (reference year).

No additional information to the metadata on EU level available. Information corresponds to the EU metadata.

Not applicable.

Luxemburgish law on the organisation of the Commission Nationale pour la Protection des Données and implementation of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation), amending the Labour Code and the amended the Law of 25 March 2015 laying down the salaries and conditions and procedures for the advancement of State officials. (https://cnpd.public.lu/en/legislation/droit-lux.html)

Original French title: 'Loi du 1er août 2018 portant organisation de la Commission nationale pour la protection des données et mise en oeuvre du règlement (UE) 2016/679 du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 27 avril 2016 relatif à la protection des personnes physiques à l'égard du traitement des données à caractère personnel et à la libre circulation de ces données, et abrogeant la directive 95/46/CE (règlement général sur la protection des données), portant modification du Code du travail et de la loi modifiée du 25 mars 2015 fixant le régime des traitements et les conditions et modalités d'avancement des fonctionnaires de l'État.', available at https://cnpd.public.lu/en/legislation/droit-lux.html

None.

ESAW data is usually released between January - September of each year (in year N+2, where N is the reference year in which the accidents took place), with a focus on end of June - July (release of most countries' data).

There is no specific release calendar for ESAW data (see the Eurostat website for all published ESAW data).

See section 14 Timeliness and punctuality for more details about the timing and punctuality of ESAW data releases.

No additional information to the metadata on EU level available. Information corresponds to the EU metadata.

In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice (http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-manuals-and-guidelines/-/KS-32-11-955) Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website (see worksheet 10. Accessibility and clarity) respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. The detailed arrangements are governed by the Eurostat protocol on impartial access to Eurostat data for users (http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/quality/european-statistics-code-of-practice).

Annual.

None at national level

None at national level

None at national level

None at national level

None at national level

None at national level

None at national level

None at national level

See metadata file

None at national level

A instaured quality manager will, amongst other tasks, also control the quality of the procedures related to statistics and data collection.

Also there are monthly checks in place that are sent to some responsibles.

They have to check if the encoding is correct and if the interprertation of the accidents is correct.

Most data is inserted manually into the system. Humans must interpret victim's accounts and codify them.

This is of course a potential source of classification errors.

A particular challenge in the data collection is the fact that data is extracted from production databases managed by different social security institutions.

Because of this there exists a potential risk of misinterpreting parts of the data.

In line with the European Union legal framework and principle 6 (impartiality and objectivity) of the Code of Practice, Eurostat develops, produces and disseminates European statistics respecting scientific independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably (see http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/quality/european-statistics-code-of-practice for more information).

The main users of the ESAW data at EU level are:
- Other EU organisations concerned with health and safety at work, in particular Directorate-General for Employment, social affairs and inclusion (http://ec.europa.eu/social/home.jsp?langId=en) as well as the EU agencies EU-OSHA (http://osha.europa.eu/) and EUROFOUND (http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/);
- Member States authorities such as statistical authorities, labour ministries, labour inspectorates;
- International organisations dealing with health and safety at work such as ILO;
- Business associations, trade unions and NGOs;
- Researchers and students;
- Media.

Eurostat regularly meets other EU and international organisations as well as representatives of relevant Member State authorities, business associations, workers and employer associations. In addition, it communicates with other user groups such as researchers, students and the media via several channels including its user support, website and through events such as conferences and meetings. The needs and comments from these user groups are continuosly taken into account when deciding about what statistics are collected and disseminated.

ESAW data users are often interested in information concerning individual economic sectors. Incidence rates are important for comparing the situation in different Member States and economic sectors. While absolute numbers of accidents for individual economic sectors (at NACE Rev.2 at 2-digit or more detailed level) reflect appropriately the accidents reported in Member States, incidende rates (number of accidents per 100,000 workers) depend also on reference populations which are sometimes not very accurate for smaller sectors.

Eurostat carries out regular user satisfaction surveys (see http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/quality/general-evaluation-results) including for statistical domains such as 'health'.

Information about the downloads of individual datasets, detailed tables, publications and Statistics Explained articles is regularly compiled and analysed.

All available information about user satisfaction is taken into account when developing data collections.

However, there is currently no dedicated user satisfaction survey on ESAW statistics.

ESAW phase I and II are covered at 100%

ESAW phase III variables are covered at 100%.

ESAW phase I and II are covered at 100%

ESAW phase III variables are covered at 100%.

REPORTING LEVELS OF ECONOMIC SECTORS (NACE), (Annual update expected)

Global reporting level

Reporting levels by sector

Additional comments on global reporting level

Codes:

N sector not covered by data collection
UNK sector covered but unknown reporting level
(value %) reporting level
(e) rough estimate (instead of "medium" or "high")

Explanation: Please fill in every cell with information, either "N" for sector not covered by the data collection, "UNK" for sectors covered but unknown reporting level, or a percentage value for sectors covered for which the reporting level is known (such as "52%"). Instead of "medium" or "high" please fill in a approximate value and flag it with "(e)" at the end, such as "50% (e)". Please fill in both, the global reporting cells and the detailed rows for individual sectors. If for example no sector is covered for your country, then fill into every cell "0", if all sectors are covered but all reporting levels are unknown fill in "UNK" in every cell. "N/A" should be replaced by either "N" or "UNK".

Luxembourg data is subject to under-coverage:

The employees of the public sector are only partially covered, as well by the reference population data as by the accident data (the reference population excludes a subset of public sector employees, the accidents of this same subset are excluded from the accident data).

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Coverage error

Luxembourg data is subject to under-coverage:
The employees of the public sector are only partially covered, as well by the reference population data as by the accident data (the reference population excludes a subset of public sector employees, the accidents of this same subset are excluded from the accident data)

Processing error

Processing errors are mainly due to human failures (non-respect of coding and administrative procedures).

Luxembourg data is subject to under-coverage:

The employees of the public sector are only partially covered, as well by the reference population data as by the accident data (the reference population excludes a subset of public sector employees, the accidents of this same subset are excluded from the accident data)

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Processing errors are mainly due to human failures (non-respect of coding and administrative procedures).

Not applicable.

The legal requirement for Member States is to send Eurostat ESAW data until 30 June of year N+2, where N is the reference year in which the accidents took place.

As soon as one or several Member States have sent their data they are published on the Eurostat website. In some cases this may happen already some months before the legal deadline of June.

Approximately 12 months after the end of the reference year (experience of previous years).

Approximately 21 months after the end of the reference year (experience of previous years).

Most countries transmit data before and a few days -weeks after the legal deadline of 30 June of year N+2. Eurostat then checks and validates this data and publishes most of it on its website within a few weeks (in July N+2 or before).

A few countries may send data only during July - September of year N+2. All data is usually published until September - October of year N+2.

See above.

Data on fatal accidents have a high level of comparability between all countries.

Data on non-fatal accidents are considered to be of limited comparability across certain groups of countries. See section 13. on 'accuracy' for further details, in particular concerning the existence of two different types of accident notification systems (insurance based and universal social security system based).

Standardised incidence rates are calculated in order to enable between comparison between countries (some countries have larger high-risk sectors in terms of work accidents, for example concerning certain occupations in transport, construction, manufacturing and agriculture; see section 18.6 Adjustment for more details).

Not applicable.

Due to changes in the applicable legislation, Luxembourg data concerning years < 2011 and concerning years >= 2011 are not comparable.

In addition, Luxembourg has changed its methodology starting with reference year 2014, thus data concerning the reference years < 2014 and >= 2014 are not directly comparable.

The last major break for ESAW data was between 2007 and 2008 including a change from NACE Rev.1 to NACE Rev. 2 and concerning the addition of the 13 new Member States which joined the EU in 2004, 2007 and 2013 respectively.

Therefore, the length of comparable ESAW time series is for example six years for reference years 2008 - 2013.

Coherence - National Accounts

National statistics are not directly comparable to ESAW statistics.

The Framework Regulation defines ‘accident at work’ and establishes that ‘data shall be collected for fatal accidents at work AND accidents at work resulting in more than three days of absence from work'.

National statistics include communting accidents and also accidents under three days of absence (excluding the day of the accident itself)

Not applicable.

National statistics are not directly comparable to ESAW statistics.

No additional information to the metadata on EU level available. Information corresponds to the EU metadata.

There is currently no cost/burden analysis available for ESAW data at national level.

ESAW data are occasionally revised, such as when a country notifies Eurostat about changes in the data and metadata.

In 2014 - 2015 a revision of reference populations of some countries was done which impacts on incidence rates (the reference populations is the denominator for incidence rates, the numerator is the numbers of accidents).

The practice for data revisions is similar to the practice of publishing new data: either the country sends revised data to Eurostat which checks, validates and publishes it in agreement with the responsible national authority, or Eurostat calculates revised data and sends it to the country's authority for agreement.

Not available.

Luxembourg extracts data concerning accidents at work from the databases of the Association d'assurance accident. This data is crossed with information concerning the absence from work extracted from the databases of the Caisse nationale de santé.

The information concerning employed persons is extracted from the databases of the Centre commun de la sécurité sociale.

Annual.

Not applicable.

Validation activities at national level include:

• comparison to other national statistics
• comparison to the statistics from previous cycles
• investigating inconsistencies

Note that the ESAW reference population will always be different from the LFS population, since the former includes non-residents whereas the latter does not.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

No additional information to the metadata on EU level available. Information corresponds to the EU metadata.