Azerbaijan

Title of the survey

Reports on Labour.

Organization responsible

State Statistical Committee of the Azerbaijan Republic, Labour Statistics Department.

Periodicity of the survey

Monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual.

Objectives of the survey

To collect information on the labour market.

Main labour topics covered by the survey

Employment, earnings and labour cost.

Reference period

The month.

Coverage of the survey

Geographical

Whole country.

Industrial

All branches of economic activity.

Establishments

All types and sizes of companies, enterprises and organisations in the public sector; partial coverage of enterprises in the private sector.

Persons

All employees.

Occupations

Data are collected by occupation once a year through another survey (see under Other sources of data).

Concepts and definitions

Employment

Employees are all workers with an employment contract, whether full- or part-time, and irrespective of the duration of employment (seasonal, temporary, or permanent). They include working proprietors and directors who receive a salary, manual and non-manual workers, apprentices and trainees, as well as persons temporarily absent from work because of vacation, holiday, lay off, sickness or accident, etc. Workers who hold more than one job, seasonal workers and workers absent from work because of industrial dispute are separately identified.

Excluded are unpaid contributing family workers, commission agents and home workers.

Earnings

Gross earnings cover all types of payments made in cash or in kind, irrespective of the source of financing, including payments made to workers for hours not worked, in accordance with the labour legislation. In particular, they include:

direct wages (pay for normal time work, premium pay for overtime, holiday work, shift work, night work, etc.), incentive pay (production bonuses, etc.) and other regularly paid bonuses and wage supplements, various allowances (housing, transport, cost-of-living and family allowances paid directly by the employer);
remuneration for time not worked (annual vacation and other paid leave, public holidays, other recognised holidays and other time off with pay);
irregularly paid bonuses (year-end, seasonal and similar bonuses) and profit-sharing bonuses;
the value of payments in kind (for food and drink, fuel, free or subsidised housing and similar payments).

Wage / salary rates

Not relevant.

Hours of work

Not relevant.

International recommendations

The definition of earnings conforms to the international guidelines on total gross earnings.

Classifications

Industrial

The data are classified according to the All-Union Classification of Branches of the National Economy. This classification can be linked, with some adjustments, to the International Standard Industrial Classification of all economic activities (ISIC), Rev.2.

Occupational

Not relevant (except once a year, in the Inquiry on occupational wages and hours of work - see below, under Other sources of data).

Others

By type of ownership and region.

Sample size and design

Statistical unit

The reporting unit is the enterprise, institution or organisation.

Survey universe / sample frame

Not available.

Sample design

The reporting system is based on a complete enumeration of all enterprises, institutions and organisations in the public sector and of those which are registered in the private sector.

Field work

Data collection

Labour reports are sent by mail each month to all enterprises, institutions and organisations.

Survey questionnaire

Not available.

Substitution of sampling units

Not relevant.

Data processing and editing

Data are processed by computer.

Types of estimates

Number of employees and average monthly earnings.

Construction of indices

None.

Weighting of sample results

Not relevant.

Adjustments

Non-response

Not available.

Other bias

None.

Use of benchmark data

None.

Seasonal variations

The survey results are not seasonally adjusted.

Indicators of reliability of the estimates

Coverage of the sampling frame

Full coverage of the public sector; coverage of the private sector is limited to those legal and individual enterprises that are registered.

Sampling error / sampling variance

Not relevant.

Non-response rate

Not available.

Non-sampling errors

Not available.

Conformity with other sources

Not relevant.

Available series

Number of employees and average gross monthly earnings.

History of the survey

Not available.

Documentation

State Statistical Committee of the Azerbaijan Republic: Reports and Express Information (monthly, Baku);

idem: The Labour Market Digest (annual, ibid.).

Results that do not appear in the above-mentioned publications can be obtained upon request, and the results can also be made available on diskette.

Confidentiality / Reliability criteria

The data are covered by confidentiality laws.

Other information

Data supplied to the ILO for publication

The following data are published in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics: Paid employment and average monthly earnings of employees, by economic activity and in manufacturing, by industry group.

Other sources of data

In 1996, the State Statistical Committee of the Azerbaijan Republic conducted a first inquiry on occupational wages and hours of work, with reference to the month of October.

This sample survey is repeated each year. The report forms are specific to selected sectors and branches of economic activity and collect, for some 66 pre-selected occupations, data on:

the number of permanent, temporary and seasonal adult workers (persons aged 18 years and over) who have worked full time on full-rate of pay, each day of the month of October. These include persons who worked the number of days or hours of work established by the work schedule for October, and not less than the normal working time determined by law or collective agreement, as well as persons travelling on business and retaining their earnings in the relevant enterprises and organisations.

Excluded are all workers who were absent from work for one day or more in October, irrespective of whether they retained their wages or not (e.g. because of annual leave or vacation, professional training, short-time working, incapacity, study or other unpaid leave, administrative leave, maternity or parental leave, beginning or end of employment contract during the month). Also excluded are apprentices, home workers, persons combining more than one job who are recruited from other enterprises or organisations (sovmestitiels) and workers having concluded a contract agreement or other agreement under civil law. Only the number of all these persons is reported on.

Gross wages and salaries in cash and in kind of full-time full-pay workers for the month of October. These include:
1. payments under the terms of the wage agreement (i.e. basic wages for time worked and work performed and increases and additional payments that are of a recurring character conditioned by the functioning of the enterprise or the occupation, such as for arduous working conditions, multi-shift work schedule, work on night-shifts, occupational skill, etc.);
2. productivity bonuses payable in October (or the third of the quarterly amount if such bonuses are payable quarterly);
3. cost of public utilities, meals, food products and accommodation put at the disposal of the workers free of charge, and money compensation or allowances in lieu of such services; these costs are separately identified;
4. percentage compensation for long service and work experience;
5. additional payments for overtime and work on rest-days and public holidays;
6. payments for hours of enforced work stoppage within the shift;
7. other payments for production declared defective through no fault of the worker, wage increases in connection with rises in prices (separately identified), transport allowances to and from work, (separately identified), etc.
All other types of payments of a non-recurring character are excluded.
Wage rates, i.e. wages and salaries fixed under the terms of the wage agreement and enumerated in point (a) above.
Hours actually worked in October, which include hours actually worked during normal periods of time, overtime worked, hours worked on public holidays and rest-days and hours of enforced idleness within shifts through no fault of the worker. Excluded are hours not worked for annual leave, paid sick leave and similar paid periods of absence.
Normal hours of work and duration of the working week in terms of hours.
Number of workers, wages and time worked by occupation group (specialists, employees and workers in specific occupational groups).
For each selected occupation, number of workers, wages (by component group) and time worked, separately for men and women.

The survey results are published by the ILO in Statistics on occupational wages and hours of work and on food prices - October Inquiry results, a special supplement to the ILO Bulletin of Labour Statistics.