1. LAMAS January 2016
Agenda Item 2.1 Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) Eusebio Bezzina Jean Thill

2. Main items discussed: Preparation for SES2014
- data collection / validation / publication
- metadata update in ESS-MH
II. Eurostat's data checks

3. I. SES 2014 - Data Collection (i)
EU Regulation (530/1999) data transmission deadline
30 June 2016
-> Letters of non-compliance beyond this date!
EDAMIS: Table A (EARNINGS_SESA_A4)
Table B (EARNINGS_SESB_A4)
Importance of respecting data transmission timeliness
Publishing timely data + Release of EU aggregates
Calculation of EU aggregates by September 2016
Draft news release in Autumn 2016

4. I. SES 2014 - Data Collection (ii)
Expected microdata transmission to Eurostat

5. I. SES 2014 – Metadata update (i)
Standardised structure of Quality Reporting in ESS Metadata Handler (ESS-MH);
Replaces EMIS (Eurostat) and NRME (NSIs) as well as the "old" format of collecting Quality Reports ( );
Work done so far
Autumn 2014: SES2010 QRs (pdf/word) mapped into
ESQRS structure and imported in ESS-MH
AT-CH-DE-FR translated into English, proofread by NSI
Spring 2015: ESQRS files validated by NSIs + ESTAT,
published on Eurostat website

6. I. SES 2014 – Metadata update (ii)
Way forward (SES 2014)
Create copy of SES2010 ESQRS file in ESS-MH
Change "new" ESQRS file reference year to SES2014
Update contents of newly generated ESQRS file to reflect SES2014 metadata
If inserting text or tables (copy-paste) from
a separate word/excel file, use the button "Paste from …."
Send the new file to ESTAT for validation and publication

7. II. EUROSTAT data checks (i)
Data validation
‘Consistency checks’ to ensure that complete data is received on microdata records from each country
‘Plausibility checks’ on each variable to ensure that the data are reasonable and in line with other 2014 SES variables
inconsistencies between hourly, monthly and annual data
hours paid for part-time employees exceeding those for full time employees

8. II. EUROSTAT data checks (ii)
Missing entries/values
Especially for main classification variables:
A12: Size of the enterprise to which the local unit belongs
A13: Principal economic activity of the local unit (NACE Rev. 2)
B23: Occupation in the reference month (ISCO-08)

9. II. EUROSTAT data checks (iii)
Compare mean hourly earnings by NACE
full time and part-time employees
2010 and 2014
Outliers
Large number of cases where Log (gross hourly earnings) outside the interval: [µ - 4σ ; µ + 8σ]
Hourly earnings below 1/50th of the average
Hourly earnings more than 50 times higher than the average

10. The LAMAS delegates are invited to:
Inform Eurostat by when their NSI is expecting to send SES2014 microdata to Eurostat;
Inform of any problems which could result in any delay in the data transmission to Eurostat;
Take note of Eurostat's additional validation checks;
Take note of the instructions on how to update the Quality Reports for SES2014 in ESS-MH;

11. Thank you for your attention!