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 for a year
• (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 positions 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
• The survey included (expanded) positions occupied by daily-workers and non-wage employment, and the title changed to “Employment Position Statistics” in 2016.
• In 2018, the survey reference period changed from Dec. of each year to a whole year.

Data Provision

Method of Publication and URL

• Media (Press releases), Statistics Korea webpage (https://kostat.go.kr), KOSIS (Korean Statistical Information Service) (https://kosis.kr)

Publication Frequency

• Annual

Contact

Director for International Cooperation. Tel: