| 1 | Contact | |
| 1.1 | Contact organisation | The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan |
| 1.2 | Contact organisation unit | Department of labour statistics |
| 1.3 | Contact name | Khuduzade Nemat |
| 1.4 | Contact person function | Head of Department |
| 1.5 | Contact mail address | AZ1136, Baku city, Inshaatchilar ave 81 |
| 1.6 | Contact email address | nemat.khuduzade@stat.gov.az |
| 1.7 | Contact phone number | +99412 538 61 21; +99412 377 10 70 (2208) |
| 1.8 | Contact fax number | n/a |
| 2 | Metadata update | |
| 2.1 | Metadata last certified | 13.08.2014 |
| 2.2 | Metadata last posted | 20.11.2018 |
| 2.3 | Metadata last update | 16.04.2024 |
| 3 | Statistical presentation | |
| 3.1 | Data description | The purpose of the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual statistics on wage and salaries is to estimate the average wage and salaries, number of employees and changes of those indicators, as well as time worked and paid for in the whole economy and by sector, definable by the ownership of the legal entity (public and private), economic activity, region, county, municipality, sex, size of enterprise, etc. |
| 3.2 | Classification system | National version of the Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE Rev.2), Classification of Property Forms, Classification of Administrative-territorial units. https://stat.gov.az/menu/5/classifications/ |
| 3.3 | Sector coverage | Covered are enterprises from all economic activities irrespective of their type of ownership and source of financing, which have at least one employee working under labour contract. |
| 3.4 | Statistical concepts and definitions | "Employees are all persons who have a labour contract (fixed or permanent; full-time or part-time) with their employer by virtue of the Labour Code and who receive remuneration in cash or in kind for certain quality and quantity of work done.
The average monthly number of employees is the arithmetic mean value of the daily number of employees (sum of the daily number of employees divided by the number of days for the reference month). Part-time employees are converted into full-time equivalents.
Gross wages and salaries are the remunerations paid regularly to the employees by the employers before the deduction of any tax and social security contributions payable by the employees and withheld by the employers. Gross wages and salaries comprise of: basic wages and salaries for time worked or work done; payments for statutory, contractual or voluntary leave; payments for overtime, shift work, extreme working conditions, length of service; monthly, quarterly and annual bonuses.
The average monthly wages and salaries are calculated through dividing the total amount of wages and salaries costs accrued during the reference month by the average monthly number of actual working employees under labour contract." |
| 3.5 | Statistical unit | All statistical units that perfom economical activities in the Republic of Azerbaijan during the reference period. |
| 3.6 | Statistical population | Number of employees, job vacancies and wages and salaries data correspond to the enterprises with one and more employees from all economic activities from NACE Rev.2. |
| 3.7 | Reference area | The whole country is covered |
| 3.8 | Time coverage | Quarterly, annual-since 1993,monthly-since 1999 |
| 3.9 | Base period | Not applicable |
| 4 | Unit of measure | Average wages and salaries-AZN; number of employees-person, percent; hours paid for hours worked- hours |
| 5 | Reference period | monthly, quarterly, annually |
| 6 | Institutional mandate | |
| 6.1 | Legal acts and other agreements | Legal document for collection of data is the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on “Official Statistics” and Statistical Works Programms |
| 6.2 | Data sharing | |
| 7 | Confidentiality | |
| 7.1 | Confidentiality - policy | According to the Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on “Official Statistics'' the submission of primary data is prohibited. https://e-qanun.az/framework/8882 |
| 7.2 | Confidentiality - data treatment | Individual data are not disseminated following the rules set in Section VI from the Law on Official Statistics. The dissemination of individual data is done only under the Section VI from the same law. |
| 8 | Release policy | |
| 8.1 | Release calendar | The actual date of data publication is set in the SSC of Azerbaijan Release calendar |
| 8.2 | Release calendar access | Data release calendar is posted on webpage of the Committee under the section "e-services". Access is available for all users and there is no any limitation. |
| 8.3 | User access | There is a policy of distribution of official statistics in the State Statistical Committee and approved by order dated 19.02.2014, № 8/02s. |
| 9 | Frequency of dissemination | Monthly, Quarterly, Annual |
| 10 | Accessibility and clarity | |
| 10.1 | News release | Press release with main results from the monthly, quarterly and annual survey on number of employees, time worked, wages and salaries is prepared and published on the SSC of Azerbaijan official website. The results are published in compliance with the SSC of Azerbaijan Release Calendar. |
| 10.2 | Publications | Information on the indicator is reflected in statistical yearbooks "Labor market". In addition, the data is published in the "Civil servants" "Women and Men in Azerbaijan" and "Statistical Indicators of Azerbaijan". https://www.stat.gov.az/source/labour/?lang=en |
| 10.3 | On-line database | Information about this indicator is available on the online database. https://www.stat.gov.az/source/labour/ |
| 10.4 | Micro-data access | Access to microdata is prohibited. Primary data could be used only according to “Rules on submission of microdata to users for research purposes” approved by the Chairman of the SSC of Azerbaijan dated on 13.06.2011. |
| 10.5 | Other | Reply to all users' written and electronic requests. |
| 10.6 | Documentation on methodology | There are methodological recommendations on calculation of the number of employees and the related information is presented in the metadata section. http://www.stat.gov.az/menu/7/other_metadata/ |
| 10.7 | Quality documentation | Quality report on indicators had been prepared. http://www.stat.gov.az/menu/2/quality/ |
| 11 | Quality management | |
| 11.1 | Quality assurance | Application of quality management system is envisaged to be launched. Orderly implementation of statistical products and processes and improvement of the quality based on Generic Statistical Business Process Model (GSBPM). |
| 11.2 | Quality assessment | Processes on quality management are being executed. National basic principles of quality assurance in the system of official statistics of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2013); All possible ways are used for parallel improvement of all quality components during statistical data processing. In such cases individual approach is applied on each statistical product and selection is made according to importance of relevancy, accuracy, timeliness, correspondence and comparativeness components that are essential for product quality. |
| 12 | Relevance | |
| 12.1 | User needs | The indicator employee is of interest of international and managerial bodies, mass media, science specialists, wide public representatives. |
| 12.2 | User satisfaction | According to plan of actions with users the Department carries out seminar annualy ; attendees of the seminar are representatives of several ministries and agencies, as well as representatives of international organizations, mass media and other stakeholders. User opinion surveys have been conducted on a regular basis. Website visitor opinion polls, general opinion poll on the products and services of SSC, target user group opinion polls and other surveys are conducted. |
| 12.3 | Completeness | The data refer to the whole country and all economic activities. |
| 13 | Accuracy and reliability | |
| 13.1 | Overall accuracy | "The statistical form for the survey is available in electronic format.
This survey is on-line based allowing 24 hours data collection and incorporates logical and arifhmetic controls visible immediately during the data entry.
The data processing goes through three main stages of validation:
1) data are validated while entered to control the plausibility of the inserted values and item non-response;
2) at regional level, the regional statistical offices of SSC perform post-validation incl. checks for coverage, extreme and missing values;
3) at national level, the Head Office of SSC performs additional validation as well for coverage and completeness. Comparability is made with administrative and other sources." |
| 13.2 | Sampling error | |
| 13.3 | Non-sampling error | |
| 14 | Timeliness and punctuality | |
| 14.1 | Timeliness | Calculation and dissemination of indicator is carried out according to "Statistical works program". There is no delay cases from the date defined in release calendar and program. |
| 14.2 | Punctuality | The calculation and spreading of the indicator are carried out in accordance with the "Statistical Work Program". There are no delay in the broadcast calendar and program. |
| 15 | Coherence and comparability | |
| 15.1 | Comparability - geographical | Comparison of average monthly nominal wages and salaries indicator by several geographical areas is possible at any level. Comparison of indicator by geographical areas makes no problem. |
| 15.2 | Comparability - over time | Time series are continuously provided; interruptions are not considered. |
| 15.3 | Coherence - cross domain | Since there is no any indicator alternative to employees indicator in the practice, the cross domain coherence is not investigated. |
| 15.4 | Coherence - internal | There could be less differences between primary and verified data. |
| 16 | Cost and burden | |
| 17 | Data revision | |
| 17.1 | Data revision - policy | Data revision policy is carried out according to the Regulation on Data Revision for Main Statistical Indicators approved by the order of the SSC of Azerbaijan dated 04.04.2012 No. 58/t. This document is open for public and it is posted on the web page of the SSC in the section of statistical publications. |
| 17.2 | Data revision - practice | The final results are pubished and they are not revised after the publication. |
| 18 | Statistical processing | |
| 18.1 | Source data | Monthly survey on wages and salaries for small, middle and large statistical units. Quartely and annual survey for all statistical units (macro, small, middle and large) |
| 18.2 | Frequency of data collection | Data are collected monthly, quarterly, annually. |
| 18.3 | Data collection | Data are obtained online. |
| 18.4 | Data validation | The report is presented in a electronic form. Supervision over completeness and correctness of data volume envisaged to be collected by report is implemented through the web-page www.stat.gov.az. All information about e-reporting is indicated in the web-page www.stat.gov.az. |
| 18.5 | Data compilation | On-line data entry,data validation. |
| 18.6 | Adjustment | If some discrepancies are revealed on preview of online database the local statistical body and reporting legal entities are informed and relevant revisions are implemented before the reporting period ends. |
| 19 | Comment | No additional comment. |