Labour disputes, strikes and lock-outs

Statistics Estonia

Population and Social Statistics Department

Sigrid Saagpakk

Analyst

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

sigrid.saagpakk [at] stat.ee

+372 625 9298

03/10/2024

03/10/2024

Time not worked due to strike and lock-out; number of employees involved in strike and lock-out

Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2

Economically active units – enterprises, institutions and organisations

Number of normal hours of work – up to 8 hours (minors, employees working in hazardous jobs, teachers, etc.) pursuant to legislation or internal work procedure rules. The number of normal hours of work per day (full-time and part-time employees) per employee is calculated as a ratio of the total number of normal hours of work per employee and the number of employees involved in the strike.

Strike – a temporary interruption of work on the initiative of employees or a union or federation of employees in order to achieve concessions from an employer or an association or federation of employers to lawful demands in labour matters. Warning and support strikes are not included here.

Time not worked due to labour dispute – total number of hours not worked by employees involved in labour disputes.

Economic unit

Economically active units – enterprises, institutions and organisations

FRAME

Information from the Public Conciliator about the enterprises, institutions and organisations where labour dispute arose

Estonia as a whole

2012, 2018

Not applicable

Time not worked – hour

Employees involved in the labour dispute – number

Month

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACTS

Not available

OTHER LEGAL ACTS

Not available

OTHER AGREEMENTS

International Labour Organization (ILO)

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 32, § 34, § 35, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act.

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Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. Every year on 1 October, the release times of the statistical database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications for the following year are announced in the release calendar (in the case of publications – the release month).

Calendar

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Upon the occurrence of labour disputes.

Not published

Not published

Data are published under the subject area “Economy / Wages and salaries and labour costs” in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat.

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 33, § 34, § 35, § 36, § 38 of the Official Statistics Act. Access to microdata and anonymisation of microdata are regulated by Statistics Estonia’s procedure for dissemination of confidential data for scientific purposes.

Not used

ILO definitions and the Collective Labour Dispute Resolution Act

Not available

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Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process; this information can take many forms, including feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees. This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions.

Ministry of Social Affairs

Since 1996, Statistics Estonia has conducted reputation and user satisfaction surveys. All results are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section User surveys.

In compliance with the rules (regulations)

The type of survey and the data collection methods ensure sufficient coverage and timeliness.

Not applicable

Not measured.

The data are published within 80 days of the end of the reference month (T + 80).

The data have been published at the time announced in the release calendar.

The definitions and classifications used in Estonia comply with international definitions and classifications ensuring international comparability of the data.

Compared to the data of the previous period, there are no changes in coverage, definitions and methodology.

Data collection for statistics on labour disputes is closely related to other statistics in this field. Coherence problems should be taken into account when comparing data relating to the same variables obtained from different sources (wages and salaries survey).

Not applicable

The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the section Principles of dissemination of official statistics of the website of Statistics Estonia.

The published data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available.

SURVEY DATA

The data are collected on the basis of information received from the Public Conciliator when labour disputes arise. Warning and support strikes are not included here.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Not used

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used

Monthly

Data are collected and the submission of questionnaires is monitored through eSTAT (the web channel for electronic data submission). The questionnaires have been designed for independent completion in eSTAT and include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Questionnaires.

Data are collected with the monthly official statistics questionnaire “Labour disputes (strikes and lockouts)”.

Arithmetic and qualitative controls are used in the validation process, including checking that the population coverage and response rates are as required, comparison with the data of previous periods or other surveys and with administrative data sources.

In the case of missing or unreliable data, estimate imputation based on established regulations will be used.

Variables and statistical units which were not collected but which are necessary for producing the output are calculated. New variables are calculated by applying arithmetic conversion to already existing variables. This may be done repeatedly, the derived variable may, in turn, be based on previously derived new variables.

Microdata are aggregated to the level necessary for analysis. This includes aggregating the data according to the classification, and calculating various statistical measures.

The collected data are converted into statistical output. This includes calculating additional indicators.

Not applicable

Not available