1. LAMAS Working Group 13-14 June 2018
Agenda Item 2.8 TF2: Income from main job (variable INCGROSS)

2. Guidelines on income bands
TF2 accepted the proposal (seven bands) and agreed that
Bands should not be not compulsory
Countries could use other definitions as long as at least seven bands are defined
LAMAS delegates are invited to:
approve the guidelines proposed for defining income bands

3. outlier detection methods and its treatment (i)
For social statistics Eurostat applies outlier detection in SILC and SES
Outlier detection rules are different but in both surveys:
outlier treatment is made by the countries. Eurostat do not apply outlier treatment
For INCGROSS, similar approach:
detection of possible outliers in Eurostat
treatment by the National Statistical Institutes
use SILC formula

4. outlier detection methods and its treatment (ii)
LAMAS delegates are invited to:
approve that Eurostat would only detect possible outliers and countries would confirm or correct the value
comment on the TF2 proposals:
(i) that additional countries test the SILC outlier detection formula on their own national LFS data and
(ii) on the need of investigating other options

5. Dissemination policy of INCGROSS (i)
Employees/Mean salary/Median salary by country, sex, decile and additional variables (age group, level of education, citizenship, economic activity, occupation, working time, permanency of job, job duration, size of the local unit, number of usual weekly working hours)
Employees/Mean salary/Median salary by country, sex, age group and level of education

6. Dissemination policy of INCGROSS (ii)
Values of the deciles at National level should be attached to the tables
Final decision should be taken once the data on INCGROSS is available in Eurostat and the results could be properly assessed
Do not disseminate tables at HH level

7. Dissemination policy of INCGROSS (iii)
LAMAS delegates are invited to:
discuss the proposal on the dissemination policy
and
approve the proposal of not publishing data at household level