employees in other service occupations.
Concepts and definitions
Employment:
refers to all employees in municipal and county municipal administration and those in municipal and county-owned enterprises that are members of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities and follow the Association’s collective agreements as of the 1st October of the reference year. Excluded are employees in the municipality of Oslo.
Employees with a minimum of 33 hours worked per week are considered as full-time employees; those with fewer hours are considered to be part-time employees.
Earnings:
gross monthly earnings refer to total cash salaries according to salary scales as of 1st October of the census year, plus fixed and variable allowances. They exclude the value of payments in kind and any overtime payments.
Wage rates:
refer to basic wage and salary rates actually paid per month, excluding guaranteed and regularly paid allowances and payments in kind.
Hours of work:
normal hours of work which are fixed in collective agreements, laws and regulations.
Classifications
Branch of economic activity (industry):
Title of the classification:
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC94), Division 75 (public municipal and county municipal administration).
Number of groups used for coding:
not applied.
Applied to:
all data.
Link to ISIC:
none.
Occupation:
Title of the classification:
the classification is in accordance with the classification used by the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities, as designed to serve collective agreements and reflect salary scales.
Number of groups used for coding:
5.
Applied to:
all data.
Link to ISCO:
it is not necessarily in accordance with the Standard Classification of Occupations (C521) nor with ISCO.
Other classifications:
employment, earnings, wage rates and hours of work: by sex and employee category, such as fulltime/part-time and adults/youths.
The statistics are also classified by education level. Information about the education of individuals is obtained from Statistics Norway’s register on the Population’s Highest Level of Education (BHU). Education is classified according to length of education as follows: lower secondary education; upper secondary education; third level education (4 years or less); third level education (more than 4 years); unknown or not completed education. There is a one-year time lag in education data.
Data collection
Size and coverage of the administrative system:
in 2000 the register included 347,544 employees in municipal and county municipal administration (excluding Oslo).
Data collection method:
the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities receives individual records from municipalities and county municipalities in electronic form (diskettes) or on paper and sends the information in electronic form to Statistics Norway, in accordance with the Statistics Act, Section 3-2.
Updating of the administrative system:
the Central Register is updated once a year by the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities.
Data processing, editing and consistency checks
Data are processed both manually and by computer.
Adjustments
None.
Types of estimates
Totals and averages.
Construction of indices
None.
Indicators of reliability of the estimates
Coverage of the administrative system:
exhaustive, based on an annual census of all employees in administrations and enterprises that are members of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities, except employees in the municipality of Oslo, as of 1 October of each year.
Non-sampling errors:
incorrect reporting by the respondents to the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities and/or processing errors by both the Association and Statistics Norway are possible. In addition, the register of the Population’s Highest Education may contain errors in coding of level of education.
Conformity with other sources:
these statistics are comparable with other wages statistics since 1997.
Available series
Total employment and average monthly earnings, wage rates and weekly hours of work.
History of the statistics
Starting date of the statistical series:
1958.
Major changes and revisions:
Since 1990 employees in the health and social services are included in the statistics.
Since 1993, the statistics exclude employees in the municipality of Oslo.
Since 1997, enterprises in electricity supply are excluded, despite their membership in the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities. They are included in the statistics for employees in electricity supply (http://www.ssb.no/lonnkraft_en) The statistics are comparable back to 1997.
Documentation and dissemination
Documentation:
Statistics Norway: NOS Wage Statistics (Oslo, annual); also contains methodological information;
Idem: Statistical Yearbook (ibid., annual), issued within 6 months after the statistics reference year.
Statistics Norway has published statistics for the years 1958, 1959, 1960 and for about every other year from 1962 to 1976, then annually from 1978 onwards.
Dissemination:
through Statistics Norway’s website:
Wage statistics. Municipal and county municipal employees: http://www.ssb.no/lonnkomm_en/ (Norwegian and English) Subject group: 06.05. Wages and labour costs; http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/06/05
Data which do not appear in national publications or on the website can be made available upon request.
Wages statistics for employees in Section L of the Standard Industrial Classification, central government employees, are released on: http://www.ssb.no/lonnstat_en (Available in Norwegian and English).
Data supplied to the ILO for dissemination
The following statistics are published in the ILO Statistics on occupational wages and hours of work and on food prices – October Inquiry results, and disseminated through the LABORSTA database:
Normal hours of work and average monthly earnings for the following occupations: