Survey Information
Survey Name:
Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey
Business Area:
Short Term Statistic Division
Survey Purpose:
To produce indices for the purpose of monitoring change in Labour Costs in Ireland and across the European Union.
Legislative Basis:
Will satisfy emerging Labour Cost Index Regulation and Job Vacancy requirement
Periodicity:
Quarterly
Target Population:
Enterprises NACE 5 - 96
Sampling Frame:
Sample selection from Business Register.
Survey Size:
7500
Principal Variables Collected:
Number Employees, Hours, Earnings, Bonuses. relating to whole quarter
Principal External Users:
EU and all national users
Contact Points
Business Area Specialists:
Ken Moore
The business specialists above can be contacted by e-mail using their firstname.lastname@cso.ie
Methodology Documents
- Instruction Leaflet A - EHEC Survey (PDF 44KB)
- Instruction Leaflet B - EHEC Survey (PDF 44KB)
- Occupational Codes (Excel 59KB)
- Information note on EHECS indices (PDF 14KB)
- Information note on Public Sector Employment (PDF 13KB)
- Methodology for production of broad occupational category estimates (PDF 48KB)
Technical Information and Guidelines
The CSO has developed technical information and guidelines for payroll software providers to facilitate the extraction and automatic generation of a data file and/or report. This will meet the majority of the data requirements of the Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) and the National Employment Survey (NES).
This development should significantly contribute to a reduction in the response burden on our data providers.
These links contain the necessary technical information and guidelines that may be of interest to both payroll software developers and our customers.
› List of Occupations (Excel 482KB)
› Notes for Payroll Software Providers (PDF 803KB)
› Additional Questions & Answers for Payroll Providers (PDF 85KB)
› Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey Form A (XLS 219KB)
› Earnings Hours and Employment Costs Survey form B (PDF 68KB)
› Instructions for completion of Survey Form A (PDF 44KB)
› Instructions for completion of Survey Form B (PDF 44KB)
› Notes on the combined programming for the NES and EHECS reports (PDF 147KB)