Employment estimation Practical approach and methods Workshop on Reporting Environmental Goods and Services November 2009 Bech Building – A3/45 ICEDD asbl
2 Employment DefinitionEstimation Employees = all persons who work in or for an establishment and receive pay in cash or in kind as a rule at regular intervals EGSS employment = direct environmental employment: it excludes employment linked to upstream or downstream activities (intermediary consumption and distribution) = in full time equivalent of a year (total hours worked divided by average annual hours worked in full-time job) Handbook, Chapter 4 (4.5), pp
3 Employment of corporations DefinitionEstimation For producers of a specific environmental NACE class: Data directly found in registers and take the total employment For producers of both environmental and non- environmental activities: Need to know the environmental share Method based on coefficients to have share of environmental employment Ratio of environmental producers/ total producers in a NACE class Aggregate-ratios: Share of environmental turnover applied to total employment (= eE= (eT*tE)/tT if eE/tE=eT/tT) Disadvantage= top contributors (who employ a lot, i.e. rise the global ratio) lead to an overestimation Share of environmental value added (avoids overestimation due to double-counting of the turnover) Productivity ratio of an activity or of a particular sector
4 Employment of corporations DefinitionEstimation Method based on coefficients to have share of environmental employment Enterprise-level ratios: Share of environmental turnover applied to total employment for each establishment (= eE= (eT*tE)/tT if eE/tE=eT/tT) Share of environmental value added (avoids overestimation due to double-counting of the turnover)
5 Employment of corporations DefinitionEstimation For ancillary activities: Employment estimated via environmental expenditures, i.e. compensation of employees Environmental compensation of employees = based on ratio costs of production for environmental ancillary activities to total costs of production This compensation of employees is applied to an average wage (from labour statistics in a particular NACE class) by employee to obtain number of FTE
6 Employment of General Government DefinitionEstimation Environmental compensation of employees for public administration… From environmental expenditure statistics for NACE 84 From the COFOG … applied to an average wage to obtain FTE Average wage come from Labour statistics for NACE 84 (total compensation of employees/total employment)
7 Employment from survey DefinitionEstimation Questions: estimation of the proportion of employees who spend any time in the production/provision of environmental technologies, goods or services or carry out environment-related activities Breakdown environmental employment in principal, secondary, ancillary and total activities (both environmental and non-environmental) Explanation of the method of the estimation of FTE
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