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Definition
Wages and salaries are defined as "the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable to all persons counted on the payroll (including homeworkers), in return for work done during the accounting period." regardless of whether it is paid on the basis of working time, output or piece-work and whether it is paid regularly or not.Notes
Wages and salaries include bonuses, pay for piecework and shift work, allowances, fees, tips and gratuities, commission and remuneration in kind. They are recorded in the period during which the work is done.However, ad hoc bonuses or other exceptional payments (13th month pay, back-dated pay arrears, etc.) are recorded when they are due to be paid.
Source
Commission Regulation (EC) No 250/2009 of 11 March 2009 implementing Regulation (EC) No 295/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the definitions of characteristics, the technical format for the transmission of data, the double reporting requirements for NACE Rev.1.1 and NACE Rev.2 and derogations to be granted for structural business statistics More informationTopic
Statistical operations
(enlaces al Inventario de Operaciones Estadísticas)- 30048 - Structural Business Statistics: Industrial Sector
- 30132 - Labour Cost Survey
- 30177 - Structural Business Statistics: Services Sector
- 30187 - Quarterly Labour Cost Survey (QLCS)
- 30188 - Annual Labour Cost Survey
- 30232 - Structural Business Statistics: Trade Sector
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