Employment Position Statistics

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Overview

Survey Name

• Employment Position Statistics

Survey Type

• Analytic Statistics

Type of Statistics

• General Statistics (Approval No. 101074)

Purpose

• To understand the status of wage and salary employment positions and non-wage employment positions by gender, age and type of enterprise by connecting employees and companies
• To provide basic data needed when making policies for job creation and when job seekers select a job

Frequency

• Annual

Target Population

• Positions occupied by those who have reported income tax or value added tax or who are covered by the social insurance system while they are engaged in production activities in December
• (In the meantime, as for 'Real Estate Activities and Renting & Leasing', those paying the value added tax are regarded as employment positions regardless of their production activities only if they have business registration numbers.)
• (except employment position occupied by unpaid-family-workers)

Survey Unit and Target Population Size

• Wage and salary employment positions and non-wage employment positions

Survey Reference Period and Date

• Survey reference period: annual

History

• In Sep. 2011, it was reviewed in the interim (2011~2015) Strategy for using administrative data whether to compile Wage and Salary Employment Position Statistics with administrative data.
• Wrote a plan to develop the administrative statistics for Wage and Salary Employment Position Statistics in Oct. 2011
• Approved for the production of the statistics in April 2012 (Approval No. 101174)
• Published Wage and Salary Employment Position Statistics (as of Dec. 31, 2010) in June 2012 (the first production and publication)
• Added items for public and non-public sectors in Dec. 2013
• Included(expaned) position occupied by daily-workers and non-wage employment, and the title changed to “Employment Position Statistics” in 2016
• Survey Reference Period changed from Dec. of each year to annual in 2018

Data Provision

Method of Publication and URL

• Media (Press releases), website, KOSIS (Korean Statistical Information Service)

Publication Frequency

• Annual (Publish Employment Position Statistics in the Public Sector in June)

Contact

Director for International Cooperation. Tel: