Purpose of the statistical survey
The labour cost index shows quarterly movement of labour costs per hours
worked. The collected data are the source for analyzing labour costs on the labour
market and enable comparison between labour costs on the Slovenian labour
market and on international labour markets. The survey is conducted on the basis of Council Regulation (EC) No. 450/2003, Commission
Regulation (EC) No. 1216/2003, Commission Regulation (EC) No. 224/2007, the
National Statistics Act (Official Journal of the Republic of Slovenia, No.
45/95 and No. 9/01) and the Annual Programme of Statistical Surveys.
Observation units
are legal persons of public and private sector or their units registered for
performing activity in the
For calculating
the index, according to EU regulations various sources can be used (a statistical
survey or existing sources). In Slovenia only existing sources are used for
calculating the labour costs index: data on payments of general government
revenues on certain accounts (payroll tax (eliminated on 1 January 2009),
employer's contributions for employment, for maternity care, for health
insurance for work-related injuries and occupational disease and for pension
and disability insurance) – source: Public Payments Administration of the
Republic of Slovenia as well as the Monthly Report on Earnings by Legal Persons,
the Labour Force Survey and the Labour Costs Survey – source: the Statistical
Office.
The statistical
survey Labour Cost Index covers persons in paid employment who signed
employment contracts (contract work is not taken into consideration). Registered
natural persons and persons employed by them, workers in employment promotion
schemes, posted workers and farmers are not covered.
All persons in
paid employment, employed for fixed or unspecified period of time, irrespective
of whether they work full time or part time, are taken into consideration.
Only existing sources
are used for calculating the labour costs index.
The presented results are calculated on the
basis of the chain Laspeyres index to the base year 2008. In calculating the
labour costs index, of all components of labour costs we take into account employee’s
allowances, employers’ social security contributions, payroll taxes (eliminated on 1
January 2009) and subsidies, and do not
take into account vocational training costs and other labour costs (recruitment
costs and clothing). Hours worked are estimated on the basis of data on paid
hours from Monthly Report on Earnings by Legal Persons, data on hours usually
and actually worked from Labour Force Survey, holidays from calendar and data
on hours worked from Labour Cost Survey. More detailed definitions of labour
costs are available by Labour Costs Survey’s methodological explanations.
Final data are expected to be
published in 2012 due to the planned revision of hours worked calculation.
Methodological note on data revision is available on the website Revision of
statistical data.
quarterly:
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First Release (70 days after the reference period at
the latest)
Miran Žavbi
16. 8. 2011