S.I. No. 39/2003 - Statistics (National Employment Survey) Order 2003

1. Particulars of sex, age and level of education.

2. Particulars of living arrangements.

3. Particulars of current employment and employment history.

4. Particulars of current job characteristics.

5. Particulars of working patterns.

GIVEN under my hand,

6 feabhra

2003.

Mary Hanafin, Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach

Explanatory Note

Statistics (National Employment Survey) Order 2003

S.I. No. 39 of 2003

The National Employment Survey (NES) will be carried out in March of this year and replaces the Structure of Earnings Survey which was last carried out in 1996. The NES will provide much-needed information on the distribution of individual employee earnings and on the factors which influence earnings levels. It will provide results which will be broken down by sector, region, occupation, age, sex, educational attainment, family status as well as many other important individual employee circumstances. It will cover all sectors of the economy and will show comparisons across economic sectors.

The purpose of the Order is to allow for the possibility of legal action against non-respondents. This would greatly increase response rates to the CSO and improve the overall quality of their statistical output both at National and European level.

Dermot McCarthy

Secretary General

Department of the Taoiseach

February 2003

1

OJ No. L63, 12.3.1999, p. 6.

2

OJ No. L229, 9.9.2000, p. 3.

3

OJ No. L293, 24.10.1990, p. 1.

4

OJ No. L6, 10.01.2002, p.1.

6. Particulars of earnings, hours worked and days of absence of employees of the undertaking for the tax year 2002 and for a reference period in March 2003.

SCHEDULE 2

Article 3(2)

I, Mary Hanafin, Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 25

(1) of the

Statistics Act 1993

(No. 21 of 1993) and the Statistics (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2002 (

S.I. No. 313 of 2002

) for the purpose of giving effect to Council Regulation (EC) No. 530/1999 of 9 March 1999

1

and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1916/2000 of 8 September 2000

2

, in so far as they relate to structural statistics on employees earnings, hereby order as follows