APPENDIX POPULATION CONCORDANCE
POPULATION CONCORDANCE WITH PREVIOUS SURVEYS
This release uses elements from Characteristics of Employment (COE) 2014 as well as key elements from the Employee Earnings, Benefits and Trade Union Membership survey (EEBTUM), Forms of Employment survey (FOE), Working Time Arrangements survey (WTA) and Locations of Work survey (LOW) to provide a comprehensive and coherent dataset on characteristics of people's employment.
Caution should be exercised when comparing the estimates from this release with previous surveys as some population groups are conceptually different.
The following table provides a concordance of populations groups used in this release with population groups from previous surveys:
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Population Concordance |
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Populations | COE 2015 | COE 2014 |
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Employed Persons | Population 1 | Population 1 |
Employees in main job | Population 2 | Population 2 |
Employees and Owner Managers of Incorporated Enterprises
(OMIEs) in main job | Population 3 | Population 3 |
Owner Managers of Incorporated Enterprises (OMIEs) in main job | Population 4 | Population 4 |
Owner Managers of Unincorporated Enterprises (OMUEs)
in main job | Population 5 | Population 5 |
Employed persons who preferred to work more hours than usually worked | Population 6 | Population 6 |
Trade union members in their main job | ... | Population 7 (a) |
Trade union members | ... | Population 8 (a) |
Independent contractors | Population 7 | Population 9 |
Persons who found their job through a labour hire firm/employment agency | ... | Population 10 |
Multiple job holders | Population 8 | Population 11 |
Employees in second job | Population 9 | Population 12 |
Employees and Owner Managers of Incorporated Enterprises
(OMIEs) in second job | Population 10 | Population 13 |
|
... not applicable
(a) From 2014 this population group includes OMUEs