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Measuring employment in national accounts

Measuring employment in national accounts. Arturo de la Fuente (Eurostat) Paper co-authored by François Lequiller (OECD). Eurostat - Unit C2 National Accounts - production. OECD/Eurostat employment questionnaire . Common OECD/Eurostat exercise Questionnaire launched in 2005 & early 2006

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Measuring employment in national accounts

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  1. Measuring employment in national accounts Arturo de la Fuente (Eurostat) Paper co-authored by François Lequiller (OECD) Eurostat - Unit C2National Accounts - production

  2. OECD/Eurostat employment questionnaire • Common OECD/Eurostat exercise • Questionnaire launched in 2005 & early 2006 • 36 responding countries • Questionnaire contents: persons in employment and hours worked • Only results for persons presented here

  3. Questionnaire results: persons in employment 4 country groups identified according to use of LFS:

  4. Adjustments LFS – national accounts • Countries using LFS adjust for conceptual differences with SNA93/ESA95: • Geographical coverage: national vs domestic • Age boundary, collective households • Conscripts, unpaid apprentices, extended parental leave

  5. Countries using LFS as main source • Some countries use LFS as only source • Only conceptual adjustments • Other countries replace LFS in certain industries • Agriculture, Government, financial services,…

  6. Countries not using LFS as only source • These countries combine many sources: • Employment registers, social insurance statistics • Tax records, other government data • Population censuses, household surveys • Business surveys, earnings statistics, business registers • LFS too? • Combination methods very demanding • certain countries benchmark + extrapolate

  7. Future work • Further analysis of questionnaire results • Persons in employment • Total hours worked • Discuss questionnaire results with countries • Next Eurostat NAWG in May 2006 • Study discrepancies LFS – NA in trends and levels • Publish metadata: country sheets

  8. Contact: Arturo.de-la-fuente@cec.eu.int Thank you !

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