Gender pay gap, hourly earnings
1. Contact
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2. Statistical presentation
Data description
The indicator is used to monitor progress towards gender equality. The indicator is one of global EU SDG (Sustainable Development Goals - SDG) indicators, and it is treated as global SDG indicator 8.5.1. "Average hourly earnings of female and male employees, by occupation, age and persons with disabilities”.
Statistical concepts and definitions
Statistical unit
Employee.
Statistical population
All employees working in enterprises engaged in all economic activities, except for agriculture, forestry and fishing, and employing 10 or more persons, as well as active in October of the reference year. Target population includes both full-time and part-time employees which on 31 October of the reference year were employed in main or secondary job and received wages or salaries.
The indicator is calculated in line with the EU methodology – aggregate of the economic activities B–S (NACE), excluding section Public administration and defence; Compulsory social sectary (O), as the regulation defines that collection of the data within the survey on this sector is not mandatory.
3. Institutional mandate
Legal acts and other agreements
Agreement with the statistical office of the European Union Eurostat.
4. Accessibility and clarity
On-line database
5. Comparability
Comparability - geographical
The Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) publishes information on the EU-27 and on a country-by-country basis on its website, in the section: Gender pay gap.
Length of comparable time series
N/A
6. Coherence
Coherence- cross domain
N/A
7. Statistical processing (data source etc.)
Source data
The primary source of main data needed for calculations of indicator is EU Structure of Earnings Survey (form “5-labour”), which according to the European Union regulations takes place once in four years. The first survey in Latvia was carried out for 2006. Basing on methodological guidelines elaborated by the European statistical office (Eurostat), in those years when Structure of Earnings Survey is not carried out, data sources available are used for the calculation of indicator of national statistics institutions – short-term statistics surveys, administrative data and various combined methods. Calculation of the annual indicator is carried out ensuring as large as possible coherence with methodology of Structure of Earnings Survey.
Data collection
Number of employees in the sample used in calculations of indicator:
Year | Data source | Sample size |
2022 | EU Structure of Earnings Survey (weighted by sample weights) | 586 492 |
2024 | Sort-term statistics survey (weighted by sample weights) | 608 555 |
2024 | State Revenue Service data | 569 166 |
Data compilation
Average regular hourly gross wages and salaries by gender and other breakdowns are calculated based on the EU Structure of Earnings Survey results.
The indicator is calculated as follows:
[(gross hourly earnings of males – gross hourly earnings of females) / gross hourly earnings of males] X 100.
In years when the survey is not conducted, the estimate is based on the data from the latest survey. Indicator breakdowns by economic activity, sector, staff workload, and age group are calculated as follows: base period indicator is multiplied by annual change rate from the base year indicators in the available data sources.
As of 2023, indicator breakdowns by economic activity, sector, and age group are calculated from the State Revenue Service data, and breakdown by staff workload is calculated from the quarterly report 2-darbs and report about the first quarter.