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About the statistics
Definitions
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Name and topic
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Name: Work stoppages
Topic: Labour market and earnings
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Responsible division
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Division for Labour Market and Wage Statistics
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Definitions of the main concepts and variables
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Work stoppages The statistics cover labour disputes, or work stoppages, of at least one day's duration. The number of disputes per year is computed from the number of trade union federations or confederations that have had groups of employees involved in a work stoppage. Strikes that are discontinued and later resumed for the same reason count as one strike unless where the interruption lasts more than two months. A dispute resumed after more than two months counts as a new strike. A dispute that occurs one year and continues the next is included in both years, i.e. as two strikes. There are two types of work stoppages, strike or lock-out. A work stoppages defines as a temporary work stoppage starting up of a group of employees (strike) or one or several employers (lock-out) to force a demand. following types of strikes are covered: legal strikes, illegal strikes, sympathy strikes, political or protest strikes, general strikes, work stoppages started by employees,Lockout som konfliktmiddel er arbeidsgiversidens svar på streiker. En lockout innebærer at arbeidstakere utestenges fra arbeidet inntil partene er blitt enige om en måte å løse uoverensstemmelsen på.
Wage earners Numbers of wage earners who are involved in work stoppages meanes permanent employee, temporary employee, seasonal worker and part-time employee. Part-time emplyee are counted as full-time employee. Employees there are absent owing to illness or are permitted and unpaid familymembers are noe included in the statitics.
Numbers of work-days lost Duration of an industrial disputes containes in numbers of work-days lost, i.e. working-days a week to the actual group in work stoppages, not calendar days.
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Standard classifications
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Industrial classification. A key component of the wage statistics is classification by industry in accordance with the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC2002) , which is the Norwegian version of the International Standard Industrial Classification (SIC94). More information in NOS D 383 Standard Industrial Classification .
The statistics is now published as Trade union members and strikes.
Additional information
The statistics cover industrial disputes, or work stoppages, of at least one day's duration. The number of disputes per year is calculated based on the number of trade union federations or confederations that have had groups of employees involved in a work stoppage.