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Aircraft Leasing Data

Aircraft Leasing firms are surveyed under the BOP45 survey which is intended to cover the activities of Banks, Asset Finance Companies, Securities Trading Companies, Agency and Captive Treasury Companies and similar Financial Services Companies which provide internationally traded financial services. This Balance of Payments survey contributes to the data that feeds our macroeconomic results. In addition, monthly sales and purchases of aircraft by Aircraft Leasing firms are recorded in a separate online form. Although the aircraft are located around the world, they are deemed to be assets of firms resident in Ireland under Eurostat legislation governing International Trade in Goods (for more see Moving to a Transfer of Economic Ownership Basis for Trade in Aircraft).

Data have been suppressed where there is a risk of the disclosure of data relating to an individual firm.

Employment and Earnings Data

Data were obtained from anonymised P35 returns. The smallest grouping of individuals in the publication was 292 and as such, there is no risk of the disclosure of individuals’ sensitive data.

Not all surveyed employees had completed 52 weeks work for a particular year. Due to the inability to distinguish between salary, overtime and bonus, it was deemed inaccurate to annualise these salaries. Instead, the number of full-time equivalents was calculated for the year, by adding up all weeks worked and dividing by 52. However, this is subject to some error as it was not possible to account for differences in hours between workers, i.e. full-time workers from part-time workers. If a week was completed, it was deemed to have been a full week.

The maximum numbers of weeks allowed per individual was 52 as there were instances where an employee had worked for a number of different employers and had completed more than 52 weeks on aggregate in a single year.

Pensioners (PRSI Class M) were removed as were a small number (< 10 for the period) of persons in PRSI classes C1, D0 and K1.

The anonymised P35 data and the income data provided by the firms on the Balance of Payment surveys were aligned to a high degree of tolerance.


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