Statistics Lithuania

Short Term Business Statistics Division

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The objective of the index of gross wages and salaries is to show the development of gross wages and salaries in service activities.

National version (EVRK Rev. 2) of the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE Rev. 2)

The indicator in this sector covers economic activities listed in sections:

H, I, division I55, J, sections M (except divisions 72 and 75) and N (except division 77) of EVRK Rev. 2 (H – Transportation and Storage, I – Accommodation and Food Service Activities, J – Information and Communication, M_STS – Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities required by STS regulation, N_STS – Administrative and Support Service Activities required by STS regulation).

Wages and salaries refers to the pay to an employee in return for the work made in cash, goods, services and/or privileges, including income taxes, social insurance contributions, etc. payable by the employee. Salaries, various bonuses in cash or in kind (benefits, severance pays, compensations) are included. It does not include social insurance contributions payable by the employer, money meant for the purchase of equipment, working clothes, various training courses, expenses on business trips (travel, accommodation), benefits from the State Social Insurance Fund in case of temporary disability (sickness, materinity leave, parental leave before the child has reached the age of three).

Index of wages and salaries is a relative indicator showing the change in the payroll during the reference quarter.

Enterprise.

The survey frame is based on Business Register. The frame population covers all active enterprises without any threshold, whose principal activity is classified into transportation and storage, accommodation and food service, information and communication, professional, scientific and technical, administrative and support service activities.

 The country. The activities outside the geographical coverage are not included in the data.

Since 2010.

2015 = 100.

Index.

Quarter.

Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 of May 1998 concerning short-term statistics, as last amended by Commission  Regulation (EU) No 461/2012 of 31 May 2012.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 329/2009 of 22 April 2009 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1165/98 concerning short-term statistics as regards the updating of the list of variables, the frequency of compilation of the statistics and the levels of breakdown and aggregation to be applied to the variables.

Data is transmitted only to Eurostat and published in the Official Statistics Portal.

Law on Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania;

Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities.

Description of Statistical Disclosure Control Methods, approved by Order No DĮ-124 of 27 May 2008 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania; Paragraph 6 of the Rules for the Secure Management of Electronic Information in the Statistical Information System, approved by Order No DĮ-76 of 12 March 2008 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania.

Statistical information is published in accordance with the approved release calendar.

Statistical information is accessible in the \Official Statistical Portal https://osp.stat.gov.lt/en/kalendoriai.

Statistical information is published on the Official Statistics Portal, according to the approved statistical information release calendar and the Rules for the Preparation and Dissemination of Statistical Information of Statistics Lithuania.

Quarterly data are transmitted to Eurostat and disseminated for national users.

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Information is provided in the Database of Indicators → Business statistics → Services.

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Eurostat database

The methodological description of the survey (only in Lithuanian) on the Official Statistics Portal https://osp.stat.gov.lt/en/web/guest/paslaugos. 

The metadata is updated every quarter and published on the Official Statistical Portal https://osp.stat.gov.lt/en/web/guest/paslaugos.

The quality of statistical information and its production process is ensured by the provisions of the European Statistics Code of Practice. In 2007, a quality management system, conforming with the requirements of the international quality management system standard ISO 9001, was introduced at Statistics Lithuania.

Monitoring of the index of wages and salaries is based on the quality requirements of the ESS (relevance, accuracy, timeliness and punctuality, accessibility and clarity, coherence and comparability). Received data are checked and edited. Before publishing the results, additional

The quality of the information obtained is analysed. Additional statistical quality checks are performed at the macrodata level. Statistical indicator is compared with the values of the previous period and the corresponding period of the previous year.

The main users of statistical information are State and municipal authorities and agencies, Eurostat, international organisations, the media, research and business communities, students, whose needs are satisfied without a breach of the confidentiality principle.

From 2005, user opinion surveys have been conducted on a regular basis. Official Statistics Portal traffic is monitored, website visitor opinion polls, general opinion poll on the products and services of Statistics Lithuania, target user group opinion polls and other surveys are conducted. The compilation of a user satisfaction index was launched in 2007. The said surveys are aimed at the assessment of the overall demand for and necessity of statistical information in general and specific statistical indicators in particular.

All indicators are established by the legislation and their components are published.

Data calculation is based on administrative data source - Database of the State Social Insurance Fund Board (SODRA). Data on wages and salaries of persons employed is taken from Sodra for each enterprise in the frame population of the survey.

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The coverage is complete when the release is compiled.

Statistical information is published on the 90^th day after the end of the reference quarter.

Statistical information is published in accordance with the approved release calendar and sent to Eurostat in accordance with deadlines.

Statistical information released on time - 100 per cent.

Statistical information is comparable across the EU.

Statistical information is fully comparable from 2010.

Values of indicators are comparable with Labour Statistics.

Full coherence is ensured. Higher level aggregations are derived from detailed values according to well-defined procedures.

It is not possible to determine cost and burden separately for each varaiable.

In 2020 total cost (NSI) 9 882 hours for all variables of STS on services - turnover, persons employed, hours worked, wages and salaries.

Total burden (respondents) 12 181 hours per year.

The administrative data is used and there is no administrative burden for respondents.

Revisions of statistical indicators are performed in accordance with the General Principles behind the Performance, Analysis and Announcement of Revisions of Statistical Indicators, approved by Order No DĮ-262 of 30 December 2013 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania. Users are informed about scheduled revisions in advance through a Calendar of Scheduled Revisions of Statistical Indicators.

The results published are final and not revised later.

Administrative data source State Social Insurance Fund Board (SODRA) is used.

Quarterly.

Administrative data according to the contract concluded with the State Social Insurance Fund Board (SODRA) is regularly extracted from its database.

To ensure statistical data quality the primary data base checking is performed using special software, searching for errors. The data is compared with the values of the previous period and corresponding period of previous year. Before sending to Eurostat data file is validated and converted into SDMX-ML format using SDMX Converter Tool. The data file is transmitted to Eurostat in STSSERV domain by eDAMIS.

The index of the indicator is calculated from the figures of gross wages and salary. The index for a new reference period is calculated by comparing against the base year’s quarterly average.

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