6306.0.55.001 - Microdata: Employee Earnings and Hours, Australia, May 2014
Quality Declaration

ARCHIVED ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA TIME) 11/06/2015
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USING THE CURF
IDENTIFIERS Each employee record has a unique person identifier - ABSPID. FILE CONTENTS The May 2014 EEH Expanded CURF can be accessed via the RADL and ABSDL and is available in SAS, SPSS and STATA formats. The Expanded CURF comprises the following files: Data files
Information file
USE OF WEIGHTS The survey was conducted on a sample of employees from a sample of employers in Australia, and as such users need to take this into account when deriving estimates from the CURF. Each employee record contains a weight (FINPRSWT) and this weight indicates how many employees in the survey scope population are represented by this employee. Where estimates are derived from the CURF, it is essential they are calculated using the weights. An employee's chance of selection in the survey varied considerably, depending on their employer's state, sector, industry and size. If an employee's survey weight is ignored, then no account will be taken of the employee's chance of selection, and the resulting estimates may be biased. A number of the weights in the CURF have been slightly modified from the original survey weights for confidentiality reasons. This reweighting process has not resulted in significant changes to the estimates and the statistical validity of the CURF is not affected. EARNINGS Weekly earnings data items have been perturbed and are expressed as continuous data items (in whole dollars only) on the CURF. Perturbation is a process of slightly altering the reported values to prevent identification of respondents. The distribution of values is not changed significantly through perturbation and the statistical validity of aggregate data is not affected. HOURS PAID FOR Hours paid for data were requested for all employees. However, hours paid for could not be provided for Managerial employees where there was no relationship between earnings and hours. As a result, data for hours paid for have only been produced for Managerial employees with a link between earnings and hours. RECONCILIATION OF CURF WITH PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED DATA Steps to confidentialise the data made available on the CURF are taken in such a way as to maximise the content of the file while maintaining the confidentiality of respondents. The steps taken to preserve confidentiality include:
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