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Data definitions
2. Persons absent from work, on leave or on layoff with weak
job attachment who were not seeking paid work during the
specified recent period should be included among persons
available for paid employment according to the extended
definition if currently available for paid work. Persons
available for self-employment (extended sense) comprise all
persons in the following categories: (a) all persons seeking
self-employment according to the restricted definition; (b)
persons with their own individual or household enterprise
who did not perform any work during the reference period
for reasons such as lack of instruments to work with, lack of
funds, awaiting the agriculture season, etc. (3).
unit value index: Value at the level of a single, homogeneous
good or service is equal to the price per unit of quantity
multiplied by the number of quantity units. It is independent
of the choice of quantity unit. The Laspeyres unit value
index is the average transaction price of a unit (22, paras.
16.9 and 16.13).
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wages, earnings: Wage rates should include basic wages,
cost-of-living allowances and other guaranteed and
regularly paid allowances, but exclude overtime payments,
bonuses and gratuities, family allowances and other social
security payments made by employers. Statistics of earnings
should relate to employees’ gross remuneration. i.e. the total
before any deductions are made by the employer in respect
of taxes, contributions of employees to social security and
pension schemes, life insurance premiums, union dues and
other obligations of employees. The different types of wages
statistics are per hour, per day, per week, per month.
Earnings relates to remuneration in cash and in kind paid to
employees, as a rule at regular intervals, for time worked or
work done together with remuneration for time not worked,
such as for annual vacation, other paid leave or holidays.
The current statistics programme to meet short-term needs
should cover: (a) statistics of average earnings and hours of
work (including, if possible, hours actually worked) and
(b) statistics of time rates of wages and normal hours of
work. The non-current statistics programme to provide
benchmark data as well as other detailed data to meet longterm
and continuing needs should include: (a) statistics of
wage structure and distribution and (b) statistics of labour
cost (3).
wheat flour: Meal of wheat seeds (6).
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