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49 49  (ii) Statistics of earnings should distinguish cash earnings from payments in kind.
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51 -== Wage rates ==
51 += Wage rates =
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53 53  ~11. The data on time rates of wages should relate to an appropriate time period such as the hour, day, week, month or other customary period used for purposes of determining the wage rates concerned.
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57 57  13. Statistics of wage rates fixed by or in pursuance of laws or regulations, collective agreements or arbitral awards (which are generally minimum or standard rates) should be clearly distinguished from statistics referring to wage rates actually paid to individual workers.  Each of these types of wage rates is useful for particular purposes.
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59 -14. Time rates of wages for normal periods of work should be distinguished from special and other rates such as piece rates, overtime rates, premium rates for work on holidays and shift rates.
59 +14. Time rates of wages for normal periods of work should be distinguished from special and other rates such as piece rates, overtime rates, premium rates for work on holidays and shift rates. **Wage payments in kind**
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61 -== Wage payments in kind ==
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63 63  15. In view of the dual nature of wages as cost to the employer and earnings of the employee, it may be necessary to evaluate wage payments in kind according to both of these concepts.
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65 65  16. In principle, for earnings statistics, payment in kind should be measured on the basis of the value accrued to the employee, since earnings refer to the remuneration or income of a specified group of employed persons, whereas for statistics of wage rates and labour cost the evaluation should be done on the basis of cost to the employer since these data refer to the cost of units of work time.
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71 71  = Current wages statistics programme =
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73 -The current programme should be designed to provide essential data at frequent intervals in order to measure trends and short-term changes in average earnings, hours of work, time rates of wages and normal hours of work.
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71 +1. The current programme should be designed to provide essential data at frequent intervals in order to measure trends and short-term changes in average earnings, hours of work, time rates of wages and normal hours of work.
75 75  1. In determining the scope and content of the current programme, the need for speed in the collection and in the processing of data at reasonable cost should be a major consideration.
76 76  1. In determining the scope of particular wages statistics series, the need to permit the computation of a satisfactory index of real wages should be borne in mind.  In principle, consumer price data and wages data relating to the same group of the wage-earning population should be obtained for this purpose.
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