Transcript Registers as a source for labour market data in the Norwegian National Accounts Ann Lisbet Brathaug [email protected].

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Registers as a source for labour
market data in the Norwegian
National Accounts
Ann Lisbet Brathaug
[email protected]
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Estimation approach
• Three basic employment concepts
– Employed persons
– Full-time equivalent persons
– Total hours worked
• Main objective is to obtain consistency between
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employment figures, wages and compensation of
employees
Total hours worked is estimated by using information on
hours worked in each industry, by adding overtime and
subtracting hours of absence (vacation, sickness absence
etc).
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Sources
• Labour Force Survey (LFS)
• Register-based employment statistics
• Central statistics on sickness absence
• Enterprise/establishment surveys (structural business
statistics)
• Central and local government accounts
• Survey-based wage statistics
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Central register on employees
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The National Insurance Administration is responsible for maintaining the
register
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The coverage is extended considerably in recent years, by
supplementing information from other administrative sources as
– the Central Register of Establishment and Enterprises
– the End of the Year Certificate Register (complete EYC is submitted to the
Tax Directorate each year)
– the register of conscripts
– the register of Personal Tax Payers (covering self-employed)
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The LFS is important, as the total number of employed persons in the
register based employment statistics is adjusted to the total number of
employees and self-employed in the LFS the same quarter
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Problems related to register-based employment
• Estimates for 4th quarter not
always equivalent to averages
for the whole year
• Problems concerning persons who work only occasionally
• Inconsistency between numbers of employees in the
registers and compensation of employees (surveys) and
wages and salaries
• Non-resident employees not covered by registers
• Changes and improvements in the registers have reduced
comparability over time
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Employed persons estimated in the national accounts and in the register-based
employment statistics. 4th quarter. 1000
2002
2003
2004
National accounts
2296
2280
2295
Register-based
employment statistics*
2267
2260
2274
Difference
29
20
21
Non-residents
estimated in
the national accounts
25
25
24
Statistical
discrepancy
4
-5
-3
* Consistent with the number of employees and self-employed in the LFS.
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