1 Item 7: National Accounts And Employment Data Using Employment Statistics in the Russian National...

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Item 7: National Accounts And Employment Data

Using Employment Statistics in the Russian National Accounts

Alexander SurinovDeputy Head of Rosstat

Joint UNECE / Eurostat / OECD Meeting on National Accounts(Geneva, 25 - 28 April 2006)

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ESTIMATION OF TOTAL LABOR INPUT

FEDERAL STATE STATISTICS SERVICE (ROSSTAT)

In accordance with the SNA concept, estimation

of total labor input in production of goods and services by all kinds of work is done on the basis of three main measures:

number of workplaces

total hours worked

full-time equivalent employment

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MEASURES OF TOTAL LABOR INPUT

RUSSIA, REGIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Workplaces(WP)

Hours worked(HW)

Full-time equivalentemployment (FTE)

Main job

Additional job

Production of agricultural products, forestry,hunting, fishing for own consumption

HW = WP x average actual hours worked in the accounting period

FTE = HW / average hours worked by full-time employees

FTE – number of work-places in full-time equivalent


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AVERAGE HOURS WORKED BY FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES

Average hours worked by full-time employees

in the accounting period is determined as the maximum possible number of work hours in case of 40 work hour week with the exclusion of leave time stipulated by legislation in the given period.

Maximum possible annual hours worked = 1920 (52 calendar weeks – 4 weeks of leave) x 40 hours


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OBSERVATION UNITS AND DATA SOURCES TO ESTIMATE TOTAL LABOR INPUTS

OBSERVATION UNITS

Legalentities

FarmersBusinesseswithout legal

entityHouseholds Non-residents

Labor forceSurveyCurrent

enterprisesurvey

Labor forceSurvey

Survey ofbusinesseswithout legal

entityAdministrative

DataBusinessRegister

Labor forceSurvey Survey of

businesseswithout legal

entityAdministrativeData Business

Register

Labor forceSurvey

Labor forceSurvey

AdministrativeData


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CONSOLIDATION OF DATAFROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Total labor input estimation: stages1. Analysis of estimates obtained from different sources:

• period in question• coverage of employed population• choice of variables

2. Work with primary data:• enterprise survey results• labor force survey results

3. Comparison of data from different sources; data divergence analysis; assessment of necessary adjustments.

4. Estimates of total number of employees and total hours worked by kinds of work.

5. Calculation of labor input to production of goods and services by all kinds of work.


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BIASES IN THE LABOR FORCE SURVEY DATA AND ENTERPRISE SURVEY DATA

Labor force surveys

improper industry code of the employer reported by a respondent

improper type of employer reported by a respondent (legal entity or employer without legal entity)

bias due to sample error

incomplete coverage of interregional labor migration, when regional estimates are obtained


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BIASES IN THE LABOR FORCE SURVEY DATA AND ENTERPRISE SURVEY DATA

Enterprise surveys

incomplete coverage of workplaces created by oral agreement:

• citizens of the RF

• foreign citizens

incomplete coverage of workplaces created by work contracts in the organizations with special reporting procedures


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NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: ON THE BASIS OF ENTERPRISE SURVEYS AND LABOR FORCE SURVEYS

Enterprise survey Labor force survey

Period Averages for: month, quarter, year. Last week of February, May, August, November.

Way of reporting

Persons working on job contracts

• main job Average reported number of employees:

Monthly – a sum of reported number of employees on each calendar day divided by the number of calendar days.

For part of the year and for the year – a sum of average reported numbers of employees for all months of the period divided by the number of months.

Persons who worked at least one hour during the survey week or those who had job but were temporarily absent.

• additional job Average number of external part-time workers is calculated proportionally to the hours worked.

Persons who worked at least one hour at additional job during the survey week or those who had an additional job but were temporarily absent.


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Continued


Persons working on civil agreements

Average number of employees calculated similar to the average reported number of employees.

Persons who worked at least one hour during the survey week or those who had job but were temporarily absent.

Accounting of special categories

Employees temporarily absent due to:

• maternity and child care leave (up to 1.5 years old)

Not included in the average reported number of employees.

Included in the total employment.

• child care leave (1.5 – 3 years old)

Not included in the average reported number of employees.

Not included in the total employment.

Persons hired on oral agreement without job contract

Not included in the number of employees.




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Continued


Helping family members Not included in the number of employees.


Persons from penitentiary institutions working at the enterprise

Accounted in average number of employees by actual days of work in the industry which the enterprise using this type of labor belongs to.

Not surveyed. When general estimators are obtained, the share of employed in the surveyed population is used.

Employment structure by sectors of the economy is used for distribution by sectors.

Certified personnel of the entities providing legal order and national security

Partially covered by observation. Surveyed; included in the total employment.

Religious figures and auxiliary personnel of religious institutions

Not covered by observation. Surveyed; included in the total employment.



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LABOR INPUT BY ALL TYPES OF WORK IN FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT BY TYPES OF ENTITIES

Legalentities

FarmersBusinesses

withoutlegal entity

Householdproductionfor own use

Foreigncitizens

50.1 millionworkplaces

65.7%


1.3%


18.9%


12.9%


1.2%


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MAIN JOB EMPLOYMENT

Legalentities

FarmersBusinesses

withoutlegal entity

Foreigncitizens

51.6 million

77.8%

0.9 million

1.3%

13.0 million

19.5%

0.9 million

1.4%


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LABOR PRODUCTIVITY DYNAMICS

In 2005, Rosstat has developed a methodology of measuring dynamics of labor productivity

Basis «OECD Manual - Measuring Productivity: Measurement of Aggregate

and Industry-Level Productivity Growth» Information base of Rosstat

Objective Measuring dynamics of labor productivity (without international

comparisons of productivity levels)

Task Obtaining productivity measures in the framework of Russian

Classification of Economic Activities

Approaches Measuring productivity within SNA production boundaries Main attention is paid to sectors with prevailing market relations


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Total Economy Gross Domestic ProductLess dependant on the proportions of intermediate product input and labor input, and on vertical integration

Kinds of Activity Output by kinds of activityObjective - to reflect labor needs per unit of physical output

Targeted at describing sectors’ needs in labor force


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Measurement Annually, at previous year prices

Publication Only the dynamics of labor productivity

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