Information on data

Available data

There are strict rules regarding the level of detail at which information used for calculation of remuneration indicators may be disseminated. It is impossible to provide all compiled and processed statistical data due to their confidential nature, specific agreements with authorities responsible for data supply, and the disproportionate workload such a provision would imply.

The datasets in Eurostat's online database as well as the reports present headline information at total level. Annual and intermediate reports present information at various levels:

• the maximum level of detail for Intra-EU duty stations is the 12 main groups of the classification of individual consumption by purpose (COICOP) and a set of additional agreed analytical categories, similar to those agreed for the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) and the European comparison programme for purchasing power parities (ECP PPP) purposes. Additional level of detail is provided for rents;
• information about national civil servant staff numbers and salary levels is provided at the level agreed with EU countries.

Eurostat's online database presents 9 datasets with price-related data and 5 datasets of salary-related data, with internal breakdowns:

• evolution of gross remuneration (individual EU countries; weighted averages for EU total, legislated core sample and remaining countries), annual time series to 1 July (and 1 January where appropriate)
• evolution of net remuneration (individual EU countries; weighted averages for EU total, legislated core sample and remaining countries), annual time series to 1 July (and 1 January where appropriate)
• number of employees in national civil service central public administration (individual EU countries)
• average remuneration of national civil service central public servants (individual EU countries)
• joint Belgium and Luxembourg consumer price inflation index, annual time series to 1 July (and 1 January where appropriate)
• bilateral correction coefficients with Brussels for Intra-EU capital cities and selected other duty stations (30+ locations), annual time series at 1 July (and 1 January where appropriate)
• bilateral correction coefficients with Brussels for Extra-EU capital cities and selected other duty stations (140+ locations), annual time series at 1 July (and 1 January where appropriate), and monthly time series where appropriate
• bilateral correction coefficients with Belgium for EU member states, annual time series at 1 July (and 1 January where appropriate)
• bilateral purchasing power parities with Brussels for Intra-EU capital cities and selected other duty stations (30+ locations), annual time series at 1 July (and 1 January where appropriate)
• bilateral purchasing power parities with Brussels for Extra-EU capital cities and selected other duty stations (140+ locations), annual time series at 1 July (and 1 January where appropriate), and monthly time series where appropriate
• bilateral purchasing power parities with Belgium for EU countries + United Kingdom, annual time series at 1 July (and 1 January where appropriate)
• average rent per month in selected duty stations by type of dwelling, annual time series at 1 July
• typical dwelling size in selected duty stations by type of dwelling., annual time series at 1 July.

Links to other input data used in calculations and for comparison purposes are also used, including:

• gross domestic product, % shares of EU total, snapshots as used for specific indicator calculation, annual time series at 1 July (and 1 January where appropriate)
• gross domestic product, % growth in real terms
• gross domestic product, compensation of employees expenditure, in central public administration
• labour cost index, quarterly time series
• InforEuro exchange rates, monthly time series
• harmonised index of consumer prices, monthly index values
• Commission quarterly economic forecasts of consumer price inflation and GDP growth in real terms.

Access to detailed data

Results are only published at aggregate level and for an approved list of analytical categories, in order to protect individual and commercial privacy.

Source data to calculate correction coefficients is compiled from various sources: specific rules apply to some of these.

• Access to consumer price survey microdata from the European Comparison Programme may only be accessed for research purposes: