Earnings Hours and Employment Costs Survey
The purpose of the Earnings Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) is to collect, compile and disseminate series of quarterly and annual earnings and labour costs statistics across economic sectors in Ireland. The output produced nationally from EHECS is the quarterly and annual Earnings and Labour Costs Release, while EHECS also produces data for Eurostat’s Labour Costs Survey, Labour Cost Index, Job Vacancy Survey and Short-term Labour Market Business Statistics.
The Earnings Hours and Employment Cost Survey (EHECS) is a statutory statistical survey conducted each quarter under the provisions of the Statistics (Labour Cost Survey) Order 2018 (S.I. No 115). Under Section 26 of the 1993 Statistics Act you are obliged by law to complete and return this form. Any person who fails or refuses to provide this information or who knowingly provides false information may be subject to prosecution under Part VI of the Act.
Our results are only ever made available to the public in aggregate form and we make sure that it is impossible for individuals or businesses to be identified. Anonymised survey information may be provided to other government departments, approved organisations and approved researchers for statistical purposes only.
There is wide national usage from other Government Departments, economists and research bodies. International users also access data from Eurostat and the ILO.
Yes. All information supplied to the CSO is treated as strictly confidential. The Statistics Act, 1993 sets stringent confidentiality standards: Information collected may be used only for statistical purposes, and no details that might be related to an identifiable person or business undertaking may be divulged to any other government department or body.
The data you provide in this survey will be held for a maximum period of seven years from the date of issue, subject to survey requirements.
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Louise Egan, Earnings Analysis, Central Statistics Office, Skehard Road, Cork, T12 X00E.
Tel +353 (21) 4535951 E-mail: earnings@cso.ie
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the following rights:
However, because your data is processed for statistical purposes these rights may be limited in accordance with Article 89 of the GDPR. This is due to the fact that the exercise of any of these rights may render impossible, or seriously impair, the achievement of the statistical processing and such restriction maybe necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.