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 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). Individual private entrepreneurs and persons
employed by them, own account workers, 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.
quarterly:
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First Release (70 days after the reference period)
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