State Statistical Office

Department for wages

"Dame Gruev" 4, 1000 Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia

Data on average gross and net wage paid per employee (total, by sectors and departments).

National Classification of Activities - NKD Rev. 2.
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics - NTES 2013.

Sectors A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R and S except sectors T and U according to NKD Rev. 2 (NACE Rev.2) and all divisions from 01 to 96 except divisions 06, 50, 97, 98 and 99 according to NKD Rev.2 (NACE Rev.2).

Total paid gross wages (wages in total) include: paid net wages for the reporting month, paid personal tax and paid contributions for pension and disability insurance, health insurance, employment and professional disease.Total paid net wages covers payments for full time work, less than full time work and more than full time work (overtime work), payments in respect of annual vacation, public holidays, paid leave up to seven days, paid leave for educational purposes, for sick leave up to 30 days, etc., payments for time spent in army service and civil duties, etc., differences based on increasing the base salary and the value of the salary point, payments based on periodical or final settlements, profit-sharing bonuses, no matter which period they refer to, payments for trainees and payments based on work experience.
The net wage does not cover payments from common assets, payments of per diem allowances, travel expenses, reimbursements for transport to work and home, etc., payments for sick-leave over 30 days, payments based on temporary employment contracts as well as other payments for which personal tax and contributions are not paid.

Statistical units are the business entities from sectors A to S according to NKD Rev. 2.Report on employees and salaries is filled out by all business entities in private and other ownership in Republic of North Macedonia.
A report is also filled out by business entities which are in foundation, liquidation or bankruptcy.
Reports are filled out according to the organisational-territorial principle at the municipal level. If the business entities have parts or component units outside the municipality where they are located, they don’t report those units because they are obliged to fill in another report to the statistical authority in the territory where they are situated. If this component unit does not have the necessary data, the business entity from which the unit is part of, is obliged to provide all required data. From the beginning of 2018 data are obtained from Public Revenue Office.

Statistical population are business entities from sectors A to S according to NKD Rev.2 (NACE Rev.2). The administrative source is the Public Revenue Office, but the survey is still being conducted on a sample of about 70% of sector-level employees, including all large and medium-sized enterprises.

Republic of North Macedonia

Activities outside the geographical coverage are not included in the data

Dataset has been disseminated since 1991.

2021=100

Data is published as Indices to Eurostat. On national level they are published in indices and in absolute values (denars).

Month

National: Law on State Statistics (“Official Gazette of the Republic of North Macedonia” No. 54/97, 21/07, 51/11, 104/13, 42/14, 192/15, 27/16, 83/18, 220/18 and 31/20), Programme of Statistical Surveys 2023-2027 (“Official Gazette of the Republic of North Macedonia” No. 29/23). International:  Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European parlament on European business statistics; Eurostat Methodology on Short-term statistics

Time series from January 2010, via eDAMIS to Eurostat and via SDDS+ to the International Monetary Fund.

Individual data are protected by the Law on State Statistics. Data collected with statistical surveys from the reporting units or indirectly from administrative or other sources are confidential data and are used only for statistical purposes. Results from the statistical processing may also generate information considered as confidential, for example: anonymised individual data, tables with low level of aggregation, as well as unreleased data. The Policy on Statistical Confidentiality contains the basic principles used in the SSO.

All individual or personal data, in each phase of statistical processing, are treated as confidential data and may be used only for statistical purposes. When releasing data from this survey at an aggregated level, there is no need for additional data treatment for the purpose of ensuring confidentiality.

Data are released in accordance with the Release Calendar, which is published on the web site of the State Statistical Office. The Release Calendar is prepared annually before the beginning of each year and is updated quarterly.

http://www.stat.gov.mk/Kalendar_nov_en.aspx

In accordance with the dissemination policy, all users have equal access to statistical data at the same time. Data are released on the web site at the same time for all users, which are informed with the Release Calendar, and no user has privileged access.

Monthly

Monthly news release: "Average monthly net wage paid per employee".

https://www.stat.gov.mk/PrikaziSoopstenie_en.aspx?rbrtxt=40

Monthly news release: " Average monthly gross wage paid per employee ".

https://www.stat.gov.mk/PrikaziSoopstenie_en.aspx?rbrtxt=41

MAKStat - database available on the website of the SSO

https://makstat.stat.gov.mk/PXWeb/pxweb/en/MakStat/?rxid=46ee0f64-2992-4b45-a2d9-cb4e5f7ec5ef

MAKStat - database available on the website of the SSO.
The number of hits on the tables from the database is 391.
http://makstat.stat.gov.mk/PXWeb/pxweb/en/MakStat/MakStat_PazarNaTrud_Plati/?rxid=3812522e-b923-48c5-ba57-30e67d9509b0

According to the Law on State Statistics (Article 41) and the Policy on Access to Anonymised Microdata for scientific purposes, data collected for the purpose of official statistics may be used for scientific purposes if there is no risk of direct or indirect identification, i.e. disclosure of data individuality. Access to microdata is possible only in the safe room at the SSO, based on a submitted and approved request and a signed agreement.

https://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx?id=22

Survey data are sent to Eurostat and they are released on the web site of this institution.

Methodological explanations are published on the website of the State Statistical Office.

Methodological explanation for gross wages and salaries : https://www.stat.gov.mk/MetodoloskiObjasSoop_en.aspx?id=41&rbrObl=14

Methodological explanation for net wages and salaries : https://www.stat.gov.mk/MetodoloskiObjasSoop_en.aspx?id=40&rbrObl=14

A Quality Report is prepared after the final processing and dissemination of the data. The report is prepared in accordance with the internal manuals and is only for internal usage

The commitment of the SSO to ensuring quality of products and services is described in the Law on State Statistics, the Strategy of the State Statistical Office (http://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx?id=6) and the Quality Policy of the State Statistical Office (http://www.stat.gov.mk/pdf/Politika_za_kvalitet_en.pdf), as well as in the continuous efforts for harmonisation with the European Statistics Code of Practice. The main aspects and procedures for quality management in the phases and sub-phases of the Statistical Business Process Model, as well as the good practices for ensuring quality are documented in the internal document called “Guide for ensuring quality of statistical processes”. Input and output metadata, as well as relevant quality indicators for certain sub-processes are described in the document “Guide for survey managers”.

There is no overall assessment of data quality based on standard quality criteria.

External users are various scientific researchers, government instititions and bodies, Public Revenue Office - base for calculation and payment of contributions, Ministry of labor and social policy - for determining the minimum wage, business entities and other users who need these indicators in order to create their policies.

The State Statistical Office conducts the User Satisfaction Survey at the domain level. This Survey is conducted every three years and the last one was in 2019.

https://www.stat.gov.mk/pdf/IzvestajAnketaZadovNaKorisnici2019_en.pdf

Considering the indicators required by Regulation (EU) 2019/2152 of the European parlament on European business statistics, SSO provides 100% of them (52 indices).

Data accuracy is ensured by working on decreasing sampling and/or non-sampling errors, as well as with additional data comparisons and analysis before dissemination.

The survey is not conducted on a random sample and therefore there is no calculation of sampling errors.

Response rate is 100%; for all enterprises selected in the sample data are obtained from Public Revenue Office.

T+37

Data are disseminated within the established deadlines in accordance with the Release Calendar.

There is geographical comparability of the released data at national and regional level. With respect to geographical comparability with other EU countries, it is also ensured because data are collected in line with EU regulations.

Data are comparable over time.

Cross domain coherence is ensured, compared to data from PRO (Public Revenue Office).

Internal coherence of data is ensured.

Standardized information on cost and burden is not systematically collected and not available

In accordance with the Statistical Data Revision Policy.
https://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx?id=25

Revision of the data is done by changing the base year and a change of nomenclature.

This statistical survey is a sample survey. The sample comprises 11406 business entities, which cover 70% of the employees, in every department of NKD Rev. 2, in each region NUTS 3 and strata that are selected based on the number of employees.
All large and medium business entities were included in the sample, while the rest were randomly selected.

Data are collected with monthly frequency.

The statistical survey "Monthly statistical survey on employees and wages" (LABOUR.1) is based on a sample

The data are collected through the Public Revenue Office (administrative source) with deadline T + 35

Validation of data is done in accordance with the defined control criteria.

Each month, after data are processed and before dissemination, final validation of data is made in order to ensure the quality of the statistical results.

Before transmission to Eurostat, mathematical and logical controls incorporated in calculation sheets are made.

Calculations: The indices are calculated with the previous year as the base year.

No adjustment is carried out.

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