Kyrgyzstan

Title of the survey

Survey of enterprises, institutions and organisations.

Organization responsible

National Statistics Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic.

Periodicity of the survey

Monthly, quarterly and annual.

Objectives of the survey

To obtain information on employment by industry and sector, composition of the wage fund, level of wages and hours of work and administrative leave.

Main labour topics covered by the survey

Employment, earnings and hours of work; also covered are job vacancies, labour turnover and wage arrears of enterprises.

Reference period

For employment, earnings and hours of work: the month.

Coverage of the survey

Geographical

The whole country.

Industrial

All branches of economic activity.

Establishments

All types and sizes of enterprises, institutions and organisations.

Persons

Employees.

Occupations

Data are not collected by individual occupation.

Concepts and definitions

Employment

Employees are all workers in enterprises, institutions and organisations, whether full- or part-time and irrespective of the contract duration, including workers away on leave without pay (at their own request or on the employer's initiative).

In the annual survey, three categories of employees are separately identified: manual workers (blue- collar workers), office workers (white-collar workers) and managers.

For the calculation of average wages, only workers to whom wages were actually paid are taken into account.

Earnings

They refer to gross monthly earnings before deduction of employees' income tax and contributions to social security, pension and similar schemes. Gross earnings include payments for time worked or work done; overtime payments; regular bonuses, premia and additional payments (for shift, night or holiday work, production bonuses, etc.); cost-of-living, housing, transport and family allowances paid by the employer; remuneration for time not worked but paid for (for annual leave, vacation, public holidays, other days off with pay, etc.); irregular bonuses (year-end, seasonal and similar bonuses, profit-sharing bonuses); and payments in kind for food and drink, fuel, housing and similar payments.

Data are also collected on the amount of social insurance contributions paid by employers on behalf of their employees.

Wage / salary rates

Not relevant.

Hours of work

They refer to total hours actually worked by all employees during the reference month. They include hours worked during normal periods of time, overtime hours, time spent at place of work for preparation of workplace, repairs, maintenance, preparation of tools, receipts, reports, etc., as well as periods of time spent by workers waiting or standing by at the workplace.

International recommendations

The definition of earnings used in these surveys correspond to that of total gross earnings in cash and in kind contained in the international guidelines. The definition of hours actually worked also conforms to the international recommendations.

Classifications

Industrial

Since 1999, data on employment, earnings and hours of work are classified according to the General Classification of Types of Economic Activity (OKEhD), Rev.2, which comprises 17 categories of economic activity. This classification is based on the Statistical Classification of economic activities of the European Communities (NACE, Rev. 1), which is itself based on the International Standard Industrial Classification of all economic activities (ISIC) Rev.3.

Occupational

Not relevant in these surveys.

Others

The survey data are also classified by region, type of ownership and legal status. In addition, once a year, employment data are classified by employee category, sex and age group (young workers, workers below the age of 30 and persons of retirement age and above).

Sample size and design

Statistical unit

The reporting unit is the enterprise, institution or organisation.

Survey universe / sample frame

This consists of the State Business Register of enterprises, institutions and organisations which comprises some 37,000 units of all types of ownership and legal status (including agricultural enterprises).

Sample design

The survey is based on a complete enumeration of all units.

Field work

Data collection

Every month, all enterprises, organisations and establishments (except small enterprises) submit reports to the district (rajon) statistical committees, not later than seven days after the end of the reporting month. Small enterprises submit these reports quarterly. All enterprises submit an annual report on the annual results, the purpose of this report being to obtain detailed information on labour costs by components.

Survey questionnaire

Available in Russian.

Substitution of sampling units

Not relevant.

Data processing and editing

Data are entered onto a computer equipped with a programme for arithmetical and logical monitoring of the data. At the regional (oblast) level, primary data are used to derive data for different branches of industry and types of management. By the 25th of the month following the reporting month, these data are forwarded, together with a record of the primary data, by electronic mail to the Main Computing Centre (GVTs) of the National Statistics Committee. The GVTs produces overall data for the entire Republic and 35 days after the end of the reporting month, submits tables showing employment figures, wages and other indicators to the National Statistics Committee.

Types of estimates

Totals and averages of employment, average monthly earnings and weekly hours actually worked.

Part-time workers and workers under flexible time arrangements are converted to full-time equivalents.

Construction of indices

Index numbers are not constructed.

Weighting of sample results

Not relevant.

Adjustments

Non-response

None.

Other bias

None.

Use of benchmark data

None.

Seasonal variations

None.

Indicators of reliability of the estimates

Coverage of the sampling frame

It is considered complete.

Sampling error / sampling variance

Not relevant.

Non-response rate

Not available.

Non-sampling errors

Not known.

Conformity with other sources

Not available.

Available series

Totals and averages: number of employees, monthly earnings, hours actually worked per week, classified by economic activity, region, type of ownership and legal status.

History of the survey

A number of surveys on the number, composition and wages of the workforce have been carried out since 1925, mainly based on the system of periodic reports and accounts of enterprises, institutions and organisations.

Documentation

Not available.

Confidentiality / Reliability criteria

For confidentiality reasons, information on individual enterprises is not published.

Other information

Data supplied to the ILO for publication

The following statistical series are published in the ILO Yearbook of Labour Statistics:

Other sources of data

A number of additional periodic reports collect different types of data on employment, earnings and hours of work, such as number of workers by sex, age, length of service, educational level; number of qualified skilled workers; number and composition of management staff and senior management; distribution of workers according to type of post held, etc.

(i) Certain years (e.g. 1994 and 1998), statistics of occupational wage rates and normal hours of work, and occupational earnings and hours paid for, are collected and compiled for selected occupations within specific industries. These data cover employees having worked full-time during the reference month (October). In 1994, sampling was used for the first time in this survey.

Wage rates correspond to basic wages and salaries fixed by regulations for specific occupations or industries. Normal hours of work are, in principle, the hours fixed by law and regulations in Kyrgyzstan. The definitions of earnings follows that described in the Survey of enterprises, institutions and organisations. Since 1998, the occupational classification is the All-Republic Classification of Workers' Occupations, Official Posts and Wage Categories (OKPDTR), which is based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-1988). The survey results are published in the ILO publication entitled 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.

(ii) Once a year, data are compiled on the structure of earnings by components. Statistics on the distribution of employees by levels of earnings are also compiled each year with reference to the month of November. These statistics cover the whole country, all economic activities and all types and sizes of enterprises and organisations.

(iii) Since 1994, in the annual Survey of enterprises, institutions and organisations, statistics are collected and compiled on the level and structure of labour cost. The data cover the whole country, all economic activities and all types and sizes of enterprises and organisations. Statistics of average monthly labour cost in manufacturing (for the total only) are published in the ILO Yearbook of Labour Statistics.