Pakistan
Source of the series
Government Administrative Reports.
Title of the series
Average occupational wages.
Organization responsible
Data collection and statistical processing:
Directorates of Labour Welfare, through the Governments of each Province in Pakistan: Balochistan, Punjab, Sindh, North West Frontier Province (NWFP), and Islamabad.
Main topics covered
Employment, wage rates, earnings and hours of work.
Periodicity or frequency of availability of the statistics
Annual.
Reference period
Occupational wages:
a month.
Coverage of the statistics
Geographical:
each Province of Pakistan separately. This description is limited to the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Industrial:
NWFP: 29 selected industry groups.
Establishments:
establishments and factories covered by the Factories Act, 1934 and the Wages Act, 1936.
Persons:
employees covered by the Factories Act, 1934, and the Wages Act, 1936.
Occupations:
NWFP: 76 selected occupations within the 29 industry groups.
Concepts and definitions
Employment:
employees are persons employed for wages in any manufacturing process or for a business or establishment.
Full-time workers are those employed for the number of working hours specified by laws.
Earnings:
refer to net daily and monthly earnings, after deduction of employees’ social security contributions - provided these earnings are above the threshold of Rs. 2,500.00 per month. They include direct wages in cash for time worked or work done, and cost-of-living, housing and transport allowances. Payments in kind are excluded.
Earnings data are collected separately for wage earners, salaried employees and full-time employees.
Wage rates:
refer to basic daily and monthly wage/salary rates, including cost-of-living allowance and other guaranteed and regularly paid allowances - provided these rates are above the threshold of Rs. 2,500.00 per month. Wage rates in kind are excluded.
Wage/salary rates are collected separately for wage earners, salaried employees and full-time employees.
Hours of work:
refer to normal hours of work as fixed by laws or regulations. Normal hours of work are fixed at 48 hours per week and 9 hours per day, as defined under Sections 34 and 36 of the Factory Act, 1934, and under Section 7 of the West Pakistan shops and establishments Ordinance, 1969.
Classifications
Branch of economic activity (industry):
Title of the classification:
Pakistan Standard Industrial Classification of all economic activities (PSIC-70).
Number of groups used for coding:
29.
Applied to:
wage rates and earnings.
Link to ISIC and level:
Rev.2, at the two- and three-digit levels.
Occupation:
Title of the classification:
Pakistan Standard Classification of Occupations (PSCO-68).
Number of groups used for coding:
76.
Applied to:
wage rates and earnings.
Link to ISCO and level:
ISCO-1968, at the two- and three-digit levels.
Other classifications:
by sex, level of education and employee category.
Data collection
Size and coverage of the administrative system:
These administrative reports are restricted to the collection of statistical information on the pre-selected occupations within the pre-selected industry groups.
Data collection method:
data on occupational wages are collected from the factories and establishments concerned by labour inspectors from the Directorates of Labour Welfare field offices.
Data processing, editing and consistency checks
Data are processed manually.
Adjustments
None.
Types of estimates
Employment totals and average wage rates, earnings and hours.
Construction of indices
None.
Indicators of reliability of the estimates
Not available.
Available series
Average wage rates, earnings and normal hours of work by occupation.
History of the statistics
Starting date of the statistical series:
1980.
Major changes and revisions:
None.
Documentation and dissemination
Documentation:
these statistics are not published in national publications
Data supplied to the ILO for dissemination
Statistics of average wage rates and normal hours of work are supplied to the ILO for publication in Statistics on occupational wages and hours of work and on food prices - October Inquiry results.
Statistics of average monthly earnings in manufacturing and transport are published in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics.