Statistical processing

Source data

The primary sources of the annual compilation of employment, compensation of employees and hours worked are:

• The annual working time accounts balanced on national accounts industries
• Statistics on general government
• Institutional sector accounts
• Labour force survey (LFS)
• National accounts in other respects

The primary sources for the compilation of quarterly data are:

• The quarterly working time accounts balanced on national accounts industries
• Quarterly government finances
• The balance of payments

Frequency of data collection

Quarterly national accounts are published eight times during a year. Annual national accounts are published three times during a year.

Data collection

Not relevant for these statistics.

Data validation

The data validation is carried out in three steps according to the main process of setting up a national accounts system.

1. In the first step a thorough validation of primary data sources is carried out. For more information reference is made to the specific documentation of statistics of each primary source.
   1 In the second step an initial data validation is carried out when the national accounts are created. The national accounts receive and process the data on a unit level, which allow national accountants to go back to each data source for more information.
2. In the final step a validation of data sources is carried out with focus on coherence between sources, when production and profits are confronted with labour inputs and compensation of employees.

Data compilation

The data compilation is described under data validation.

Adjustment

No data corrections are made besides what is described under data validation.