Hours paid and worked

Data on hours worked and paid are used to measure the time spent by employees on the production of goods and the provision of services, to calculate hourly labour costs and hourly earnings, and to convert average monthly earnings to a full-time equivalent.

State and local government institution, state and local government merchant, private commercial company, individual merchant, foundation, association and fund employing 1 and more persons.

Target population covers all statistical units (state and local government budgetary institutions, state and local government merchants, private commercial companies, individual merchants, foundations, associations and funds employing 0 and more persons) economically active in 2025.

Target population of the survey does not include:

• religious organisations;
• peasant and fishermen farms;
• rural handicraft enterprises;
• family businesses;
• individuals performing economic activity.

Target population does not include also statistical units having NACE Rev. 2 classification economic activity code starting with 97, 98 or 99.

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Statistics database

Eurostat publishes a comparison between European Union countries (lc_nhour_r2: Hours worked compared to hours paid, by NACE Rev. 2 activity) - Eurostat database.

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Information is acquired by compiling questionnaires developed by the CSB – quarterly statistical reports on activities of merchants, state and local government budgetary institutions, foundations, associations and funds (questionnaires 2-darbs, 2-darbs-pašvaldības, and 2-darbs (īsā)), and administrative data.

Questionnaire 2-darbs (īsā) is submitted by individual merchants, foundations, associations and funds employing 10–99 persons. Questionnaire 2-darbs-pašvaldības submitted by local governments and municipal institutions. All other statistical units included in the sample submit questionnaire 2-darbs.

Administrative data are acquired from reports on employees submitted by employers to the State Revenue Service from the Report on state social security compulsory payments from employee income, Income Tax and Business Risk State Duty during the reference month, from the Report regarding the employment income, personal income tax and state mandatory social insurance contributions of the payers of the income tax for seasonal farm workers and from Micro-enterprise Tax Declaration.

5.3 thsd respondents are surveyed each quarter of 2025.

Central and local government bodies, commercial companies with central or local government capital participation of 50% or more, and all private sector businesses with 100 or more employees are surveyed fully. Other statistical units are surveyed using a simple random sampling method, with strata pre-defined by economic activity and enterprise size (based on the number of employees). In addition, all general government sector units – that is, every unit with an institutional sector classification code starting with S13 – are included in the sample, regardless of any other criteria.

The sampling frame was built using information from the CSB Statistical Business Register on economically active units. At the time the sample was drawn, the frame included all statistical units meeting the target population criteria ­– a total of 100 594 units.

*SVTK – CSB typological classification of statistical units.

Information was obtained from the statistical surveys every quarter in breakdown by months. Annual data are obtained by summing quarterly information received during the year. Information obtained from respondents is extrapolated using the weights set for the each sample unit. Report indicators multiplied with the weights firstly are summed at class (4-digit), group (3-digit), division (2-digit) and section (letter) level in compliance with the statistical Classification of Economic Activities NACE Rev. 2.

Each quarter, data summaries are analysed to assess the reliability of the results obtained through imputation and weighting of non-responding and indirectly surveyed statistical units. Summary indicators are compared with those from previous periods and with administrative data sources.

As of the first quarter of 2025, data compilation is based fully on the enterprise definition.

The enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations. An enterprise may be a sole legal unit.