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Survey Information

Survey Name:

National Employment Survey 2009.

Business Area:

National Employment Survey Section.

Survey Purpose:

To produce data on the structure and distribution of earnings and information on company training and employment conditions in the business in 2009.

Legislative Basis:

To comply with EU regulations on National Employment Costs and provide for national statistical requirements.

Periodicity:

Annual

Target Population:

Businesses with 3 or more employees.

Sampling Frame:

Sample selection from Business Register.

Survey Size:

10,000 employers and 100,000 employees.

Principal Variables Collected:

Collected from Employers: Number of employees, performance management and development of employees, company training for staff, employment conditions in the business, performance paid hours worked and earnings of a representative sample of employees.

Collected from Employees: Gender, nationality, place of residence, place of work, education, occupation, employment history, work patterns, work practices and performance reviews.

Principal External Users:

EU and all national users

Contact Points

Business Area Specialists:

Mary Smyth

Gerard Doolan

Iris McCarthy

The business specialists above can be contacted by e-mail using their firstname.lastname@cso.ie

Methodology Documents

• › Occupational Codes (Excel 60KB)
• › Employer Information Leaflet (PDF 48KB)
• › Council Regulation (EC) 530/1999 (PDF 48KB)

• › Commission Regulation (EC) 1738/2005 (PDF 124KB)

Technical Information and Guidelines

The CSO has developed technical information and guidelines for payroll software providers to facilitate the extraction and automatic generation of a data file and/or report.  This will meet the majority of the data requirements of the Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) and the National Employment Survey (NES).

This development should significantly contribute to a reduction in the response burden on our data providers.

These links contain the necessary technical information and guidelines that may be of interest to both payroll software developers and our customers.

• › List of Occupations (Excel 493KB)
• › National Employment Survey XML file (XML 12KB)
• › National Employment Survey notes for Payroll Software Providers (DOC 165KB)
• › Notes on mapping Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey categories to National Employment categories (PDF 61KB)
• › Excel Version of NES for Payroll Software Providers (Excel 22KB)

• Quality Reports
• › Standard Report on Methods and Quality 2006 (PDF 197KB-16pgs)

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