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 according to EU regulations.
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 new 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,
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). Individual private entrepreneurs and persons
employed by them, own account 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 2000. 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 and subsidies, and do not take into
account vocational training costs and other labour costs (recruitment costs and
clothing). More detailed definitions of labour costs are available by Labour
Costs Survey’s methodological explanations.
quarterly:
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First Release (70
days after the reference period)
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Online release: www.stat.si, SI-STAT database, Demography
and social statistics, Labour Market