Statec - Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques

Unit ENT4 "Business indicators, transport and tourism statistics"

BP 304 L-2013 Luxembourg

The persons employed indicators are short term indicators used for the business cycle analysis.

NACE Rev2

Indices are calculated for following economic activities (NACE rev2) : G;  G45 ; G46 ; H ;HTNXK; I ; J ; L ; M_STS

The variables are defined as fixed in the Regulation EC 1503/2006:

Number of persons employed

It is the objective of the index of number of persons employed to show the development of employment in industry, construction and services.

The number of persons employed is defined as the total number of persons who work in the observation unit (inclusive of working proprietors, partners working regularly in the unit and unpaid family workers), as well as persons who work outside the unit who belong to it and are paid by it (e.g. sales representatives, delivery personnel, repair and maintenance teams). It includes persons absent for a short period (e.g. sick leave, paid leave or special leave), and also those on strike, but not those absent for an indefinite period. It also includes part-time workers who are regarded as such under the laws of the country concerned and who are on the payroll, as well as seasonal workers, apprentices and home workers on the payroll.

The number of persons employed excludes manpower supplied to the unit by other enterprises, persons carrying out repair and maintenance work in the observation unit on behalf of other enterprises, as well as those on compulsory military service.

Unpaid family workers refers to persons who live with the proprietor of the unit and work regularly for the unit, but do not have a contract of service and do not receive a fixed sum for the work they perform. This is limited to those persons who are not included on the payroll of another unit as their principal occupation.

According to this definition, the groups included are:

— all paid employees, including the following categories as long as they are included on the payroll:

— home workers,

— apprentices/trainees,

— paid working proprietors and paid family workers,

— persons on temporary leave (maternity, sickness leave, strike, lock-out, etc.) for a definite period,

— part time workers,

— temporary workers,

— seasonal workers,

— unpaid persons employed:

— unpaid working proprietors (owners),

— unpaid family workers.

The groups excluded are:

— agency workers (except for the activity in which such employment agencies are classified),

— persons on indefinite leave (e.g. long term sickness, military service or social service),

— persons carrying out repair or maintenance work on behalf of other observation units and other staff borrowed from other observation units,

— family workers included on the payroll of another unit as their principal occupation.

The number of persons employed should be determined as a representative figure for the reference period.

In retail trade and other services, the statistical units are enterprises (or legal entities).

population for NACE Rev2 by annex coverage according to the Luxembourg business register

The labour indicators disseminated concern domestic statistical units. No domestic geographical area is excluded.

Persons employed: monthly figures from 2000 on

Base 100 in 2015

Indices

Month

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There is no general datasharing

STATEC 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.

There is no official national release 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.

Statec disseminates the STS indicators in the delays foreseen by the STS regulation.

There is no news release for these indicators.

There is no nation publication of this indicator.

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.

There is no further information on the relevance of this indicator for users.

no measure of user satisfaction

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

The data comes from administrative sources and is complete.

Since the data come from administrative sources , the response rate is 100%.

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Statec produces these indicators within the delays foreseen by the STS regulation.

Eurostat publication deadlines have always been met.

There is no measurement of the impact of differences in apllied 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 cohernt 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.

Retail trade and other services: the indicators are calculated with raw data transmitted in administrative files by the social security general inspection.

Administrative data as well as survey data are available on a monthly basis.

In retail trade and other services: monthly administrative data

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

The persons employed indicator is produced by Statec's unit ENT4 in charge of short-term business indicators.

There is no adjustment performed on the data.

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