Wage statistics. Employees in publicly maintained schools (http://www.ssb.no/lonnskole_en/)
06.05. Wages and labour costs (http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/06/05/)
Annual
National level
Income and Wage Statistics
Statistics Act Section 3-2.
Council Regulation (EC) no. 530/1999 of 9 March 1999 concerning structural statistics for wages and labour market costs.
The purpose of the statistics is to provide an overview of the wage level and change in wages for employees in publicly maintained schools. Statistics Norway has published statistics for 1959, 1963, 1967 and annually since 1973.
Major users are the Technical Reporting Committee on the Income Settlement, research institutes, employer and employee organizations, Eurostat and the media.
The population includes all municipal and central government primary schools, county municipal and central government upper secondary schools (including Labour Market Training), centres for special education expertise, run by central government, and folk high schools (boarding schools for upper-secondary and college level students), both county municipal and private. The statistics include all employees in education who as of 1 October 2000 were salaried in accordance with agreements made between central government and the civil servants' organizations. Employees in permanent positions, positions subject to dismissal, time-limited and temporary positions are reported. Teaching staff in special-education classes affiliated with the regular primary school are included under primary schools. Employees of private folk high schools are reported. Employees in private education, in Section M in the Standard Industrial Classification, are not includes in the statistics.
See http://www.ssb.no/lonnprivund_en/
The wage statistics for employees in publicly maintained schools are based on updated data reported to the Central Register of Government Employees in the School System (STS).
Census.
The time of the census is 1 October. The Ministry of Labour and Government Administration (AAD) collects data from schools in electronic form (diskettes) or on paper. Statistics Norway obtains the data in electronic form from the AAD, pursuant to Statistics Act Section 3-2.
None.
Wage data are checked manually and by machine at both the AAD and Statistics Norway.
In the statistics, salaries refer only to cash payments from employer to employee for work done. The statistics consequently do not include payment in kind, insurance or non-taxable compensation for expenses and the like.
Total monthly earnings and payment for overtime work are in conformance with the concepts otherwise used in Statistics Norway's wage statistics. In Statistics Norway's wage statistics, however, fixed additional allowances are included in the basic paid salary, while in the wage statistics for employees in publicly maintained schools the fixed additional allowances are grouped together with variable additional allowances.
Total monthly earnings are the main term in Statistics Norway's wage statistics. Total monthly earnings for employees in publicly maintained schools cover gross salaries according to scale, fixed and variable additional allowances and payment for stand-in work. Payment for overtime work is not included in total monthly earnings.
Salaries according to scale
Salaries according to scale cover gross salaries according to scale as of 1 October.
Fixed additional allowances
Fixed additional allowances are allowances that are paid as a fixed sum per month or per year. The fixed additional allowances consist of fixed additional allowances according to table B, the Additional Wage Table as of October, allowances given to teachers in Nothern Norway and other fixed additional allowances, before deduction for taxes. The monthly earnings include fixed additional allowances paid in October, i.e. earned in September.
Variable allowances
As a rule, variable allowances are associated with special duties or working hours, and include inter alia allowances such as committee remuneration, an acting official allowance and censor and examination fees. Monthly earnings include variable allowances paid in October, i.e. earned in September.
Payment for stand-in work
This payment includes teaching stand-in work paid in October, i.e. earned in September.
Overtime payment
Payment for overtime work covers the sum of cash compensation for work done beyond contractual working hours, which is then compensated with a supplement to the salary according to scale. This type of wage is not included in the total monthly earnings, but when the statistics are released figures are given for overtime compensation earned in September and paid out in October.
Occupation:
The occupations are in accordance with central government salary plans at 1 October.
Education:
Information about the education of an individual is obtained from Statistics Norway's register on the Population's Highest Level of Education. There is a one-year lag in education data.
Employees with a job percentage equal to 100 are regarded as full-time employees.
Employees with a job percentage under 100 are regarded as part-time employees.
Service classification:
Classification of the various services of the central government is not in accordance with the Standard Industrial Classification. The classification of schools used in the tables is as follows:
Education levels are obtained from the register of the Population's Highest Level of Education (BHU). The classification is by the length of education according to the Standard for Educational Classification.
Education is classified according to level of education (length of education):
More information about the Standard Education Classification can be found at
http://www.ssb.no/emner/04/90/
One possible error source is incorrect reporting by the respondent to the AAD.
Another error source may be processing errors by both the AAD and Statistics Norway.
The statistics are based on a census, thereby avoiding uncertainty associated with sample variance and non-response associated with sample surveys.
Cf. section 5.1. In addition, the register of the Population's Highest Education may contain errors in the coding of level of education.
The statistics are comparable back to 1973.
Taking into account total monthly earnings the statistics are comparable with other wage statistics from 1997 (Cf. section 4.1). Wage statistics for employees in private education, are released on our website: http://www.ssb.no/lonnprivund_en/
http://www.ssb.no/lonnskole_en/
Norwegian and English.
The statistics are published electronically as Today's Statistics on Statistics Norway's website. The statistics are released at 10
.00 on the day given in the statistics calendar (http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/calendar/calendar.shtml). The statistics are also published in Statistical Yearbook of Norway and NOS Wage Statistics.
Raw data files with wage data put through link programs are stored.