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However, Australia is facing limitation in terms of conceptual, content, data
source, methodologies and other quality limitation includes timeliness, data
availability and accuracy during development of labour account (Australian
Labour Account, 2018). For example, due to content limitation, analysis of jobs,
persons, hours and payments by gender or age does not include in Australian
Labour Account.

Denmark
Currently Denmark has two separate accounts called Labour Market
Account (LMA) and Working Time Accounts (WTA). LMA provides a complete
overview of population’s labour market status while WTA provide time series
on jobs, employment, hours worked and compensation of employees. The
long-term goal is to merge WTA and LMA into one micro based system.
Through LMA, Denmark able to compile the population labour market data
in terms of full-time persons i.e. person who work for 37 hours per week. Data
sources for LMA including e-income register, central business register, income
statistics, statistics on persons receiving social benefits and the central
population register. The main objective of LMA is to construct a micro-register
covering the population (Statistics Denmark, 2015).
WTA published figures on employment, jobs, hours of worked, full-time
equivalents and compensation of employees according to SNA definitions.
Some sources that was used for development this account is based on the
Register of Employment Statistics, Statistics on Earnings, Labour Force Survey
and Labour Cost Survey. Table 2 shows the main relational equations for
employees that satisfied the WTA (Buhmann et al., 2002).

Table 2: Identity relationship of Danish Working Time Accounts
Jobs Employed persons – Employed persons on leave +
Secondary jobs
Total hours of work Number of jobs * Actual hours per job
Total compensation Number of jobs * Compensation per job

The estimate on the total hours of works was based on the average number
of jobs from the Register of Employment Statistics multiplied by data by wages
statistics on total hours worked per job. The model for self-employed in Danish
WTA is simpler because it only covers jobs, employment and actual hours
worked.

The Netherland
In the Netherland, there still distinction in employment data between pre-
revision data (up to 1997) and post-revision data (from 1995 onwards). Total
of employment in post-revision data can be presented by gender, status of
employment and industry, while pre-revision data which is a breakdown by

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