1. 2nd meeting EUKLEMS Helsinki 9 June 2005 WP 2: Labour Account Issues The Netherlands

2. 2nd meeting EUKLEMS Helsinki 9 June 2005 National Account Labour volume in full-time equivalents Source: time series Labour Account Direct link to labour compensation Temporary/agency workers allocated to bus.services Labour volume in persons only published via other channels The intention is not to differ from NA in terms of ftes But..best source is not yet decided Doubts about extrapolation of persons and ftes backwards in time by Statistics Netherlands

3. 2nd meeting EUKLEMS Helsinki 9 June 2005 Problems Almost no information on jobs Lack availability of annual hours worked Time series NA will be available from 2007 Only information on contractual hours per person Lack of disaggregated data across industries Most disaggregated level is probably 49 industries Method of constructing time series Extrapolation backwards based on growth rates boosts historical figures Better method is using benchmark year(s) as levels

4. 2nd meeting EUKLEMS Helsinki 9 June 2005 How do we continue Joint work with Statistics Netherlands Decisions on constructing persons employed Search for additional sources (also related to quality characteristics) Assessment of these sources Guidelines on 2 nd approach WP2