The Statistical Office of Luxembourg (STATEC).

Unit "Business indicators, transport and tourism statistics"

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Monthly index of persons employed in construction.

NACE Rev. 2.

The population covered is Section F of NACE Rev. 2.

In general, enterprises employing 20 persons or more are included in the population. However, some smaller enterprises are taken into account.

The index series show the state and evolution of persons employed in construction. In principle, self-employed persons, owners or family members are included if they are paid by the unit.

Employment at the end of the reference month.

Observation unit: Kind of Activity Unit

The sampling frame used for the sample selection is drawn from the Business Register.

No areas of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg are excluded.

Series from 2000.

Base 100 in 2015

Indices

Month

The Law of July 10, 2011 on the organisation of the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies sets out the missions of STATEC and its internal organisation. 

Article 13 of the Law of July 10, 2011 says that "Public administrations, municipalities and public institutions as well as all individuals or legal entities are
obliged to provide the statistical information requested by STATEC within preset time frames. Unless stated explicitly as voluntary, any request for information by
STATEC is compulsory, provided it is based on the national statistical programme or on European and international statistical programmes."

There is no general datasharing.

STATEC by its law of July 10, 2011 sets out the missions of STATEC and guarantees the non-disclosure of confidential information when the statistical results are disseminated.

The ESS confidentiality rules are applied.

There is no official national release calendar.

no official calendar

The release days are the days data are transmitted to Eurostat. According to the principle of independence, data is released to all users at the same time.

There is a monthly transmission to Eurostat according to the delays of transmission foreseen in the STS-Regulation.

There is no news release for these indicators.

Indices on persons employed in construction are published in the monthly publication by STATEC “Indicateurs rapides” Série B2.

‘Indicateurs rapides’ are published on the internet : https://statistiques.public.lu/fr/publications/series/indicateur-rapides/index.html

There is no online database, but historical figures are available on request.

There is no microdata access.

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There are no national methodological documents available except STS variable definitions. Statec uses the methodology published in the STS manual.

There is no document on quality management available.

There is no specific quality management concerning these indicators.

The quality of the indicator is compliant with Eurostat recommendations.

Checks carried out along the production chain of the indices.

The quality of the indicator is compliant with Eurostat recommendations.

Checks carried out along the production chain of the indices.

Eurostat, general public, the media and others

no measure of user satisfaction

All of the required series by the EU Regulation are available.

Employment estimates in Construction are based on a monthly survey.

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The response rate reaches almost 80%.

The index is available 8-9 weeks after the reference period.

Questionnaires are sent around 5 days before the reference month. The completed questionnaires should be returned before the 20th day after the reference month.

Eurostat publication deadlines have always been met.

There is no measurement of the impact of differences in applied statistical concepts.

The time series do not show any significant breaks.

STS statistics are used for business cycle analysis as well as for the compilation of quarterly national accounts. Due to the different concepts, short-term statistics are not completely coherent with other business statistics as SBS.

The units in charge of STS try to achieve a high level of coherence within the given data set (sub-aggregates / aggregates, unadjusted/adjusted time series, etc).

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There is no general national STS revision policy. Figures are revised each time errors are detected or new raw data available.

There is no general national STS revision policy.

Type of source : Statistical survey.
Frame on which the source is based : The population is drawn from the national business register.
Sample or census : The survey is based on a non-stratified sample without cut-offs fixed by STATEC.
Threshold values and percentages : Fixed sample with the 180 most important units from NACE Section F.
Frequency of updating the sample : The list of KAUs is updated every 5 years.

Data are collected monthly.

Questionnaires ‘Statistique mensuelle de l’activité dans la construction’ asking employment, wages and salaries, hours worked, turnover in construction.
All data are obtained by questionnaire directly from the units.

Checks are carried out throughout the production chain indices.

Data is checked before the electronic processing (completeness, errors, large deviations from the normal level, etc.)

The labour input indices are simple Laspeyres index with a fixed base year.

The basic indices are weighted by employment taken from the annual structural survey in construction (year 2015)

Seasonal adjustments: The data are seasonally adjusted using  the JDemetra+ .

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