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• Helsinki 8-11th June, 2005
• NIESR

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• National accounts
• Comparability
• Expertise
• Information needed
• Industry disaggregation
• Backdating
• INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION

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UK HOURS WORKED

• Control totals derived from LFS
• Weekly hours worked average hours actually
  worked in the reference week which includes hours
  worked in second job.
• Available at the 72 industry level from LFS micro
  data
• Sample size likely to be small very volatile
• The New Earnings Survey (NES) (now the Annual
  Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE)) could also
  be used for further breakdowns, given their
  larger sample size
• has normal hours and total hours data
• No self employed information

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Ireland Labour accounts

• National accounts estimates at a very broad
  sectoral breakdown
• Agriculture, forestry and Fishing
• Industry
• Reproduction of recorded media
• Chemicals
• Computers and Instrument Engineering
• Electrical machinery and equipment
• Distribution, Transport and Communications
• Public administration and defence
• Other services
• Microdata from LFS available from 1993
• Before 1993 production censuses, some census data
  for services late 1980s, population censuses
  every five years
• Annual National Employment Survey but this is
  only available from 2003

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Employment

• There are a number of surveys that can be used to
  derive labour compensation series by industry.
• The most reliable estimate of numbers employed in
  the past was the censuses of
• production, construction, and the services
  inquiry.
• The CSO have now rectified this with an Annual
  National Employment Survey but this is only
  available from 2003