International Workshop on Industrial statisticsBeijing, China 8-10 July 2013

Data items for industrial Data items for industrial StatisticsStatistics(Part 2)(Part 2)

Data items

Total number of persons employed is defined asTotal number of persons who work in or for the statistical unit whether full- or part-time

Time period for which employment should be counted affect this item

It includes:working proprietors, active business partners, unpaid family workers……but it excludes:persons on pension, on indefinite leave, outworkers paid by subcontractors, etc.

Different categories are provided

Breakdown ‘by gender’ when possible

It refers to the number of persons supplied by employment agencies to industrial establishments.

Leased employees are on the payroll of the agency rather than the industrial establishment

It refers to the number of persons employed during the reference period n at least one production unit of the informal sector BUT only if this was their main job.

Average number of persons employed include the employees as well as working proprietors and unpaid family workers

The average number of employees is the arithmetic average of the number of employees for each calendar day of the reference period divided by the number of days in the reference period

Total number of hours spent by employees on activities that contribute to the production of goods and services during the reference period

Data items

Total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable by the establishment to an employee in return for work done by the employee during the reference period.

It excludes taxes payable on the wage and salary bill (e.g. payroll taxes)

No compensation of employees is payable to unpaid work undertaken voluntarily

IRIS 2008 give a detailed description on how to record ‘stock option’ (form of payment in kind)

To accurately measure the own account production of intellectual property products, it is recommended that a further breakdown of ‘production workers’ is collected

Data items

The scope of these items is set by the national accounts in respect to intermediate consumption of goods and services

Purchase of goods and services during the reference period for:

-resale (in the same conditions as received)

-intermediate consumption in the production process (excluding fixed assets

Purchase of services except rentals includes industrial and no-industrial services

Rental payments: costs for hiring, leasing or renting capital goods and non residential buildings, etc.

Non-life insurance premium on the unit property

Valuation of goods: at purchaser’s prices

These items should be collected to provide supplementary detail

In the infra-annual surveys, the detail can be limited to those necessary for the calculation of index number of production or prices

Examples of detail

- quantity of electricity purchased

- quantity of electricity generated

- quantity of electricity sold

Q4.3.3 Quantity of wastewater discharged without treatment

Data items

The scope of these items is set by the national account in respect to the production of goods and services

It comprises the amount invoiced by the establishment; it corresponds to the market sales

Valuation at basic prices (which excludes VAT

E-commerce sales are sales of all goods and services where an order is placed by the buyer and prices and terms of sale are negotiated over the Internet or other online systems

The revenues from E-commerce are included in data items 5(a)

Total sales/turnover may be broken down by products according to the Central Product Classification Ver. 2 (CPC, Ver.2) or other international/nations classifications of products.

Helpful to have a questionnaire with a preprinted list of important products by industry

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