Macedonia, Former Yugoslav Rep. of

Organization responsible for the statistics

Health Insurance Fund, Retirement and Disability Fund of the Republic of Macedonia and the Ministry of Labour.

Source

Insurance records.

Coverage

Workers:

Those who are currently insured: employees with a minimum of half full-time work; employees associating their labour and resources with primary employees; associated farmers; persons temporarily unemployed and receiving compensation; persons elected and appointed to current duties for which they are paid; members of trade and fishery cooperatives whose single or main activity in the cooperative is economic; persons on obligatory practice after education or on voluntary practice if working full-time. (Article 9 of the Law on Retirement and Disability Insurance, Official Gazette 18/83).

Economic activities:

All economic activities and sectors.

Geographic areas:

Whole country.

Establishments:

Not available.

Types of occupational accidents covered

Compensated injuries.

Concepts and definitions

Temporary inability to work:

cases of paid leave because of disability.

Minimum period of absence from work: not available.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: not available.

Documentation

Bibliographic references:

The data are published in:

Statistical Office of the Republic of Macedonia: Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Macedonia.

Data published by ILO:

The following data from 1992 onwards are published in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, relating to compensated injuries according to economic activity: total number of persons injured.