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1.1. Contact organisation | CROATIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Labour Market Statistics Unit |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Branimirova 19, 10000 Zagreb |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 11/07/2024 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 11/07/2024 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 11/07/2024 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
Quarterly indices of number of employees and self-employed persons. Indicator is beeing derived from the Regular monthly survey on persons in paid employment and gross and net earnings – RAD-1. |
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3.2. Classification system | |||
NACE Rev. 2. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
Until 2015 all enterprises selected in purposive sample regardless of size and registered in all A-S of NACE Rev. 2. activity sections (A-S). Since 2016 full coverage of enterprises in all A-S of NACE Rev. 2. activity sections (A-S). |
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3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions | |||
Number of employees and self-employed persons include all persons who have signed a work contract with the employer for a fixed or unspecified period of time, irrespective of type of ownership and of whether they work full time or less than full time. Also included are trainees, persons on maternity leave, on sick leave or absent from work for other reasons, until cessation of employment. Data are collected at the end of the reference month and cover persons in paid employment in legal entities for the reference month. The data are available 4 weeks after the reference period. Data is quarterly provided to Eurostat in accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation 2020/1197 (Annex IV). |
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
Reporting units are legal entities of all types of ownership, government bodies, and bodies of local and regional self-government units on the territory of the Republic of Croatia. Until 2015 data are collected through the report filled in by legal entities on the basis of the records of persons in employment. Since 2016 data are results of regular monthly survey on persons employed and wages based on administrative data sources. Observation units are kind-of-activity units (KAU). |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
Statistical population represent all active legal entities registired in Statistical Business Register. This refers to trade companies, enterprises, institutions, co-operatives, associations, political parties and state government bodies, as well as bodies of local and regional self-government units. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
The geographic territory of the Republic of Croatia - no regions are excluded. Activities outside the geographical coverage are not included in the data. |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
Data are available since 1963. Since then corresponding methodological changes were made. Those changes mostly relate to changes in classification of activities used. Until 1996, data were classified according to the Uniform Classification of Economic activities (UCEA). Since 1997 they are classified according to the National Classification of Economic Activities (NKD). Since 2009 data are classified according to National Classification of Economic Activities vesrion 2007 (NKD 2007) which is fully in line with NACE Rev. 2. Since 2016 data source has been changed. |
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3.9. Base period | |||
The base year is 2021. The same base year is applied to the data released nationally and transmitted to Eurostat. Publication date of the index for period Q1/2024 is chosen for changing the reference year. |
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Data are transmitted to Eurostat as indices (%). At national level, the data are published as absolute values. |
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Data are quarterly. |
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6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |||
Legal frame for conduction of Regular Monthly Survey on persons employed and wages is The Official Statistics Act (National Gazette, No. 25/20), The Programme of Statistical Activities of the Republic of Croatia 2021 - 2027 (the Official Gazette No. 29/22) and Annual implementation plan. Obligation on units to provide data is compulsory according to the Law on Official Statistics (National Gazette, No. 25/20). Legal basis on the european level are the Regulation (EU) of the European Parliament and of the Council No. 2019/2152 and the Commission Regulation (EU) No. 2020/1197.
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6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |||
There are no agreements or procedures for data sharing and coordination between data producing agencies. |
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7.1. Confidentiality - policy | |||
The statistical confidentiality of Croatian CBS is regulated by:
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Confidential data are treated according to The Official Statistics Act (National Gazette, No. 25/20). Statistical data which can, either directly or inderectly, get in connection with persons and legal entities are considered to be confidential. It is not possible to get confidential data in regular monthly survey on wages and persons employed. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
The Calendar of Statistical Data Issues provides a precise overview of the publications due to be released by the CBS for the entire statistical year, one year in advance. According to the Official Statistics Act, the release date of the Calendar is three months prior to the release date of the first publication of the following year. The release date is usually in October. It is bilingual and available on CBS website. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
The Calendar of Statistical Data Issues for 2023 is available on the website of Croatian Bureau of Statistics, free of charge. |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
All publication issued by the CBS are simultaneously available to all interested parties - on official website of CBS (free of charge). There are no government officials which would have access to the data before release to the public. Data are transmitted quarterly to Eurostat on the same day as the national figures are published.
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The data are transmitted quarterly to Eurostat and disseminated monthly to national users. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
There are no ministerial commentary attached to the release of the data. Only CBS comments published data. There is no official news release concernig those data. |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
No paper publications are produced with short term statistics results. Persons in Paid Employmen are regulary published in monthly First Release. This publication is electronically disseminated. Persons in Paid Employment by NACE Rev.2 sections and divisions are published monthly in Statistics in line. |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
Indices are published online in STS Database on the CBS website. The database is available on-line to all users. Frequency of updating the online database is quarterly on a date announced in the Calendar of Statistical Data Issues. |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
In accordance with confidentiality rules, no micro-data are disseminated. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
Data are transmitted to Eurostat. |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Methodological Guidlines No. 66 Monthly report on persons employed and wages (RAD-1) can be found on official website of CBS https://web.dzs.hr/Hrv/publication/metodologije/metod_66.pdf (so far only in Croatian). Each publication also contains Methodological explanations. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Not available. |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
There are no guidelines focusing on quality in general and dealing with quality of statistical programmes, including measures for ensuring the efficient use of resources. Application of ESS Code of Practice is being introduced. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
There is no overall assessment of data quality, based on standard quality criteria. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
Users of data are: academic comunity, general public, government bodies, journalists, international organisations. |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
One of the key points of quality management in the CBS and within all statistical activities is user needs monitoring. CBS is developing systematic monitoring of suggestions, comments and opinions of their users, and is trying to deliver short-termed replies. Reviewing and analyzing user satisfaction is implemented into regular tasks of the CBS. For business improvement and future planning, it is crucial to accept opinions, attitudes, and users' suggestions with the utmost respect, and take feedback information seriously into consideration. The goals of survey on user satisfaction are various: · learning the needs and expectations of statistical data users · examining user preferences for creation of different products and services · acquiring feedback on products and services of the CBS in order to improve and further develop them CBS conducted a user satisfaction survey in November 2013, April 2015 and 2022 (from November 25 to December 23). Few user satisfaction surveys about CBS's activities on social networks were carried out in 2016 and 2017. User consultation in CBS takes place in a variety of ways, both formal and informal. The main communication channel with users is the Statistical Council which is the advisory body for strategic issues concerning official statistics and it is established to ensure that user needs are taken into account (Official Statistics Act, Article 20). Users and general public also have an opportunity to comment and give their opinion on CBS's draft strategies, laws, programmes and plans through application e-Consulting on the Central Government portal. Also, there are many bilateral contacts with the main users, and many informal contacts with occasional users. CBS set up standing user groups for key statistical areas in the first half of 2017. User groups meetings are held occasionally (according to any open issue). Such groups provide an effective means for collecting feedback on statistical services and products, for informing users about quality and methodology reports and other metadata. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
All breakdowns and variable forms are provided, according to the EU regulations in force. |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
Data are in general accurate fully. They are not biased. |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
Until 2015 there are no sampling errors because the sample is purposive, and all selected units MUST deliver their data. Since 2016 there are no sampling errors because of full coverage. |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Response rate is 100%. There is no need for any action to speed up or increase response rate because it already is the highest possible. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Until 2015 data are available within 1 month from the end of the reference period. Data are collected by a postal questionnaire through regional statistical offices. At the beginning of the year 12 monthly questionnaires are sent to respondents, with one being returned to the CBS each month by the 5th of the month following the reference period. The survey is conducted on the last day of the month. Since 2016 data are also available within 1 month from the end of the reference period when is uploaded from the administative sources. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
There is no time lag between the actual delivery of the data and the target date when it should have been delivered. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
Data for the republic of Croatia are fully comparable between geographical areas. |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
Data over time could be compared taking into account methodological changes concerning classifications used. Since 2016 break in data series because of new data source. |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Data at a lower level can be obtained from the Labour Statistics Department, taking into account the confidentiality of individual data. Data are coherent. |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
Data are fully consistent. Sub-aggregates are coherent with aggregates. |
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In order to reduce response burden starting with 2016 administrative source was used to compile data. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
No documented data revision policy. It is possible to retrieve vintage database on demand. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
Monthly survey data, based on the survey sample coverage, are approximate and are published as preliminary. Until 2015 revisions are based on the annual survey data (conducted on March 31 of each year). The preliminary monthly data become final when they are published in the annual First Release No 9.2.6: Persons in employment by activity and by sex, data by months for 20… This revision policy is noted in all issues of the Monthly Statistical Report. Changes in the methodology are noted in the monthly publications at the time of the change. Since 2016 revision of data are performed on the basis of monthly data sets containing final data for the previous year. |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Type of source: Monthly statistical survey Until 2015: Frame on which the source is based: Address lists derived from an administrative register of business entities regularly updated from other available sources. Sample or census: Purposive sample. Criteria for stratification: 70% of persons in paid employment in each Division of NACE Rev. 2. Threshold values and percentages: No threshold values. Frequency of updating the sample: Annuall
Since 2016 data on employment were gathered by processing data from the Report on Income, Income Tax and Surtax as well as Contributions for Mandatory Insurances (JOPPD form), in effect since 1 January 2014. |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Data are collected monthly. |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Until 2015 paper questionnaires was used in the survey: Monthly report on persons in paid employment and gross and net earnings (RAD-1). In order to reduce response burden starting with 2016 administrative source was used to compile data on employment. |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Each month, after data are processed and before dissemination final validation of data is beeing made in order to ensure the quality of the statistical results. Before transmission to Eurostat, mathematical and logical controls incorporated in calculation sheets are beeing made. |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
Estimates for non-response: No estimations for non-response are made because the response rate is 100%. Estimates for grossing-up to population levels: Compilation method: Until 2015 annual average of the number of persons in paid employment was calculated on the basis of data by months, corrected by the data (with full coverage) as of 31 March. Type of index: Base index (2021=100). Method of weighting and chaining: No weighting of data is made.
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
Number of employees and self-employed persons are not adjusted. |
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None. |
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