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QUALITY DECLARATION - SUMMARY
INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
| Confidentialised Unit Record Files (CURFs) are released in accordance with the conditions specified in the Statistics Determination section of the Census and Statistics Act 1905 (CSA). This ensures that confidentiality is maintained whilst enabling micro level data to be released. More information on the confidentiality practices associated with CURFs can be found on the About CURF Microdata page. |
For information on the institutional environment of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), including the legislative obligations of the ABS, financing and governance arrangements, and mechanisms for scrutiny of ABS operations, please see ABS Institutional Environment.
RELEVANCE
The May 2012 Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours (EEH) produces estimates of the composition and distribution of employee earnings, the hours they are paid for, and the methods used to set their pay (i.e. award only, collective agreement, or individual arrangement).
May 2012 EEH data are a key element of labour market information. The principal objective is to facilitate the analysis and monitoring of economic aspects of the Australian labour market. The survey is the only source of earnings and hours data by various methods of setting pay.
The May 2012 EEH CURF contains all data items available from the survey, with the exception of States and Territories. Some of the key data items on the CURF include:
- Weekly earnings - Ordinary time, Overtime, Amounts salary sacrificed, and Total earnings (available as continuous variables);
- Hours paid for - Ordinary time, Overtime, and Total hours paid for (available as continuous variables);
- Methods of setting pay;
- Employee characteristics - e.g. Sex, Full-time/Part-time status, Managerial status, Occupation (available at the 1, 2 and 3 digit ANZSCO level); and
- Business characteristics - Industry (available at the 1 digit ANZSIC level) and Employer unit size.
For further details on the content of the CURF, please see the data items list. |
TIMELINESS
The reference period for the most recent Employee Earnings and Hours Survey was the last pay period ending on or before 18 May 2012. Results from the survey were released on 23 January 2013 in the publication Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia, May 2012 (cat. no. 6306.0).
EEH CURFs from the 2006 and 2010 surveys were also released. |
ACCURACY
The May 2012 EEH CURF generally contains finer levels of detail of data items than what is otherwise published in Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia, May 2012 (cat. no. 6306.0). For more information on the level of detail provided, see the associated data item listings available from the data items list.
| Steps to confidentialise the microdata are taken in such a way as to maximise the usefulness of the content while maintaining the confidentiality of respondents selected in the survey. As a result, it may not be possible to exactly reconcile all the statistics produced from the microdata with other published statistics. Further information about the steps taken to confidentialise the microdata is available through the following link CURF confidentiality. |
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COHERENCE
| The Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours has been conducted either annually or biennially since 1975. Since 1996 the survey has been conducted biennially. The conceptual framework used for this survey and key changes made to it since 1974 are described in Chapter 30 of Labour Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods (cat. no. 6102.0.55.001). |
INTERPRETABILITY
ACCESSIBILITY
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