Gender pay gap
Difference in the gross hourly earnings of male and female employees in October by economic activity (identified by an alphabetical code in EMTAK) | |
Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK 2008) based on NACE Rev. 2 | |
Economically active units – enterprises, institutions, organisations (excl. economic units without employees) | |
Gender pay gap – gross hourly wages and salaries of male employees – gross hourly wages and salaries of female employees / gross hourly wages and salaries of male employees. In the context of gender pay gap the gross hourly wages and salaries are calculated without irregular bonuses and additional remuneration. Males’ and females’ average hourly gross wages and salaries in October – payments to employees for time actually worked divided by hours actually worked. Number of hours worked – hours actually worked, incl. time spent on tasks such as work preparation, repairing and cleaning equipment and devices, completing job tasks and reports; time spent at the place of work but not worked, e.g. machine stoppages, tea and coffee breaks, and overtime hours, excl. hours paid but not actually worked (vacation and sick time, etc.), lunch, time going to work and home, time spent at acquiring formal education within the adult education system and work-related training (courses, training exercises). Pay for time actually worked – time-rate and piece-rate pay; additional remuneration for overtime work, shift work, night work and holiday work; additional remuneration for work in difficult and unhealthy conditions, regular additional remuneration for qualifications, language and length of service, etc. This also includes premiums and bonuses (monthly, quarterly and annual bonus, Christmas benefit, cost of living compensation, etc.), if the calculation of these payments is based on the time actually worked. | |
Economic unit | |
Economically active units – enterprises, institutions, organisations (excl. economic units without employees) FRAME List of economically active units (excl. economic units without employees). The list is generated from the Business Register for Statistical Purposes. | |
Estonia as a whole | |
2011–… | |
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The news release “Gender Pay Gap” once a year. The news release can be viewed on the website of Statistics Estonia in the section Uudiskiri (in Estonian). | |
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Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Economy / Wages and salaries and labour costs / Wages and salaries / Annual statistics” in the following table: PA5335: Gender pay gap by economic activity (EMTAK 2008), October | |
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Commission Regulation (EC) No 1916/2000 of 8 September 2000 on implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 530/1999 concerning structural statistics on earnings and on labour costs as regards the definition and transmission of information on structure of earnings Commission Regulation (EC) No 1738/2005 of 21 October 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 1916/2000 as regards the definition and transmission of information on the structure of earnings | |
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SURVEY DATA Total population is 98,000 objects. The sample includes 7,000 objects in a month and 12,500 objects in a quarter. All state and local government institutions and enterprises with at least 50 and more employees are surveyed. For enterprises with less than 50 employees stratified simple random sampling by economic activity is used. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Data from the Estonian Tax and Customs Board employment register are used. DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Data from statistical activity 21102 “Hourly earnings of male and female employees” and statistical activity 21101 “Wages and salaries“ are used. | |
Data are collected during the three years when data are not collected with the statistical activity 21102, for October. | |
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 for October are collected with the monthly official statistics questionnaire “Wage gap”. Data from the Tax and Customs Board are received via X-Road and a FTP-server. | |
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. The data of the enterprises that did not submit the questionnaire are replaced in the census part. 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. For statistical units weights are calculated, which are used to expand the data of the sample survey to the total population. Microdata are aggregated to the level necessary for analysis. This includes aggregating the data according to the classification, and calculating various statistical measures, e.g. average, median, dispersion, etc. The collected data are converted into statistical output. This includes calculating additional indicators. | |
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