4th Administrative Data Seminar
20 Apr 2015
Job Churn
Outline
• Job Creation, Job Destruction, Hirings &
Separations
• Motivation
• The Sources
• Methodology
• Snapshot of CSO Statbank
mervyn.oluing@cso.ie
• Examples of R code
Motivation behind Job Churn
• In the back drop of a global downturn and economic
recession in Ireland
• Increased demand for information on jobs & the
labour market
• Less financial resources available
• New opportunities to exploit administrative data
• A methodology already outlined in research
literature
The Sources – the analysis file
CSO
Business
Register
EMR ID
CBR ID
Legal form
Activity
Revenue
Employer
Employee Tax
returns
EMR ID
PPSN
Class
Weeks
Pay
DSP
Client record
System
PPSN
DOB
Gender
Nationality
Integrated and depersonalised for multi-purpose analysis
SPP35 Analysis file for each reference year
CSOPPSN
CBR ID
Month of birth, Sex, Nationality
Activity (NACE Rev 2), Legal form
Weeks, Reckonable pay
The Methodology – illustrating by simple example
A firm has 10 paid employees on books in 2008
The same firm has 12 paid employees on books in 2009
Job Creation (JC)
=2
Job Destruction (JD) = 0
This firm has 4 paid workers on books in 2009 that didn’t
exist in 2008 (Hirings) and it has 2 paid workers on books
in 2008 that don’t exist in 2009 (Separations)
Hirings (H)
Separations (S)
=4
=2
Easy to Access & Query
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Locationn
R code used to prepare data
• The data is easy to prepare for analysis
• Example of R code used to download the data
and covert it in to a pliable data frame
Thank you
Mervyn.Oluing@cso.ie