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Member States shall compare employment data according to demographic sources (supply of labour) with the employment underlying GDP estimates (demand for labour). The results of this comparison shall be used to make explicit exhaustiveness adjustments for non-observed production and income or to validate the GDP estimates. The comparison shall be made at least every five years, starting with the 2025-2029 GNI verification cycle.
1. The demographic sources for the supply of labour referred to in Article 6 shall be the labour force survey or the population census (including the underlying administrative data). 2. The data on the demand for labour referred to in Article 6 shall be derived from the business statistics sources used to compile GDP, which include structural business statistics, the statistical business register, other business-related sources, administrative data or combinations of them. 3. When the results of the comparison referred to in Article 6 are used to validate the GDP estimates, the employment figures underlying the GDP estimates shall be the final employment estimates in national accounts.
The concept of employment to be applied is defined in ESA 2010 paragraphs 11.11 to 11.19 (corresponding to domestic occupied population). As the demographic sources use a different concept of employment (employment on national basis), Member States shall take measures to align it with the ESA 2010 definition for the purpose of the comparison referred to in Article 6. These measures shall involve at least the following aspects: (a) inclusion of non-residents working for resident units, such as non-resident migrant workers, non-resident cross-border workers and seasonal workers; (b) exclusion of residents employed by non-resident producers, such as resident cross-border workers and seasonal workers; (c) inclusion of resident workers living permanently in an institution; they can live and work in communal establishments (such as prisons or long-term care facilities), collective households (such as religious institutions) and accommodation for military forces; (d) inclusion of persons in own-use production work (e.g. agricultural activities).
When performing the comparison referred to in Article 6, Member States shall apply measures to: (a) determine the scope of economic activities to be considered for the comparison, using the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (‘NACE’), as established by Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 10 ) , and harmonise the NACE coding of employment data in the sources for the supply and demand of labour; (b) compute the employment data in terms of ‘hours worked’ (as defined in ESA 2010 paragraph 11.27) or ‘full-time equivalence’ (as defined in ESA 2010 paragraph 11.32); (c) determine the appropriate ratios of gross value added or output per unit of labour to be applied to the derived labour gap (the difference between the employment data according to demographic sources aligned in accordance with Article 8 and the employment underlying GDP estimates) if explicit exhaustiveness adjustments for non-observed production (to gross value added and its components) are made as a result of the comparison.
Member States shall provide in the GNI Inventory a description of the performed comparison referred to in Article 6. This shall start with the GNI Inventory following the 2025-2029 GNI verification cycle. If the comparison results in explicit exhaustiveness adjustments, Member States shall state the value of the adjustments made. If no explicit exhaustiveness adjustments are made following this comparison, Member States shall provide a justification in the GNI Inventory along with information on how the results of the comparison have been used to validate the GDP estimates.
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