Russian Federation

Organization responsible for the statistics

Objectives and users

Major users: Government bodies, trade unions, research organizations.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts: The statistics cover:

• constitutional and official strikes;
• sympathetic strikes;
• political or protest strikes;
• general strikes;
• rotating or revolving strikes.

Minimum threshold: duration of two hours.

Economic activities: All economic activities and sectors.

Workers: All workers, excluding unpaid family workers and self-employed workers.

Geographic areas: Whole country.

Types of data collected

a) number of strikes and lockouts;

b) number of establishments involved;

c) number of workers involved;

d) duration;

e) amount of time not worked ("time lost");

f) other: matter in dispute, products not produced and not supplied.

Concepts and definitions

Strike: a temporary voluntary refusal of workers to execute, fully or partly, their duties with a view to settling a collective labour dispute.

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts: The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike is a work stoppage in one establishment. A strike which is interrupted and later resumed is considered to be a new strike.

Establishments: An establishment is a separate legal entity carrying out an economic activity at a single location. The number of establishments involved is counted for all types of strikes, including general strikes.

Workers involved: The number of workers involved relates to workers directly involved and workers indirectly involved. It is counted as the total number of workers that took part during the course of the strike. The number of part-time workers is converted to full-time equivalents. As well as regular paid employees, the statistics cover temporary or casual workers and seasonal workers. Workers laid off during the strike or absent on sick or annual leave during the strike are not included.

Duration: The duration of a strike is measured in workdays and workhours, as the number of days (or hours) on which there was a work stoppage.

Time not worked ("time lost"): Time not worked is measured in workdays and workhours by determining the total amount of time not worked on each day of the strike and summing the totals. The shorter working hours of part-time workers are taken into account in the statistics. Overtime is not taken into account in the estimate of time not worked.

Classifications

a) cause of dispute:

• issues relating to wages and salaries;
• issues relating to conditions of employment;
• protests, sympathy or solidarity with other workers;

b) outcome of dispute: not applicable;

c) method of settlement: not applicable;

d) economic activity: The data are classified by economic activity using a national classification scheme;

e) occupational group: not applicable;

f) number of establishments involved: none;

g) number of workers involved;

h) duration: less than one shift (day), one shift (day) or more;

i) time not worked: not applicable.

Reference period and periodicity

Separate statistics are produced each month for the following:

• strikes which began and ended during the current month;
• strikes which began during the previous month and continued into the next one;
• strikes which began during the previous month and ended during the current period;
• strikes which began during the current month and continued into the next one.

The amount of time not worked is included in the statistics for the period when the strike ended.

The statistics are published each month and year.

Analytical measures

• amount of time not worked per 1,000 workers;
• average number of workers involved per strike: number of workers involved / number of establishments involved
• average amount of time not worked per worker involved: total time not worked (in workdays) / number of workers involved
• percentage distributions;
• other: average time not worked per establishment involved: total time not worked (in workdays) / number of establishments involved

Historical background of the series

Classification by cause of dispute was introduced in 1994.

Documentation

Series available: The following tables are published:

Annual data on strikes in all economic activities and by economic activity:

• number of establishments involved;
• number of workers involved;
• number of workers involved per establishment;
• average time not worked per worker involved.

• number of establishments involved;
• number of workers involved;
• amount of time not worked.

Bibliographic references: The data are published in:

GOSKOMSTAT: Socio-economic situation in Russia (monthly).

idem: Russia Statistical Yearbook.

idem: Labour and Employment ion Russia (yearly).

idem: Social Situation and standard of living population in Russia.

All the data are published.

Data published by the ILO: The following data are furnished regularly to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics., relating to strikes: number of strikes, number of workers involved, number of days not worked and rates of days not worked, by economic activity.

Confidentiality: The statistics provided to the statistical bodies by individual establishments are confidential.

International standards

Employers' and workers' organizations were consulted.

Methods of data collection

The information reported includes:

• information about the labour dispute: date of work stoppage (beginning of the strike); date of resuming work (end of the strike); cause of the dispute;
• information about the establishment: average payroll; economic activity;
• information about the workers involved: number of workers on the day of the beginning of the strike;
• others:
  • material loss;
  • for strikes lasting less than one shift: amount of time not worked (workhours); output not produced (work not executed);
  • for strikes lasting one shift and more: output not produced; number of establishments, institutions or organizations for which the supply of products was stopped because of the strike; products on contracts not received.