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Methodological notes
als of fixed assets. It corresponds to the increase in the
capital stock during the year.
Labour or personal costs
Wages and salaries paid to employees plus employers’
social security costs, whether compulsory or voluntary.
These are adjusted in the analysis to incorporate the
earnings of the self-employed when relating labour costs
to value-added.
Unit labour costs
labour costs per unit of value-added, adjusted for the
earnings of the self-employed (ie including an imputed
estimate of the latter. It is equivalent to the share of
value-added going to labour.
Abbreviations
EU25 The aggregate has been calculated when data
are available for the EU15 and for the 10 new Member
States (ie excluding Bulgaria and Romania.
EUR
SBS
LFS
LCS
Euro
Structural Business Statistics
Labour Force Survey
Labour Costs Survey
NACE Rev. 1 : the latest version of the statistical classification
of economic activities in the EU
NUTS the system of nomenclature of territorial units
used for statistical purposes in the EU
“:” in the tables denotes data not available.
BE Belgium
CZ Czech Republic
DK Denmark
DE Germany
EE Estonia
EL Greece
ES Spain
FR France
IE Ireland
IT Italy
CY Cyprus
LV Latvia
LT Lithuania
LU Luxembourg
HU Hungary
MT Malta
NL Netherlands
AT Austria
PL Poland
PT Portugal
SI Slovenia
SK Slovak Republic
FI Finland
SE Sweden
UK United Kingdom
BG Bulgaria
RO Romania
EU15 the European Union before the enlargement of
1 st May 2004.
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