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Weekly Bulletin issue no. 37, 1997 <sti>Stikktittel

Labour Force Survey, 2nd quarter 1997:

No increase in use of overtime

Twenty-eight per cent of all full-time employees worked overtime in the second quarter of 1997. This is equivalent to 78,000 man-years, or six per cent of all man-years performed by full-time employees.
Corrected for Easter Week there was no change in these figures in the past year, with the exception of the amount of overtime taken as time off, which was somewhat higher in the second quarter last year. Overtime means working hours beyond the agreed working time of full-time employees, performed in the course of a specified week. Fifty-nine per cent of the overtime was compensated with pay, 17 per cent with time off, while 24 per cent was listed as being without compensation. Compared with one year earlier, there was a modest increase in the percentage of paid overtime.

Most men from 25 to 39

Thirty-two per cent of the men said they worked overtime, against 21 per cent of full-time employed women. Among persons aged 25 to 39 the overtime percentage was 36 per cent for men and 23 per cent for women. Of those who worked overtime men worked an average of 8.6 hours, and women 6.5 hours extra per week, about the same as last year's figures.

New Statistics

Labour Force Survey, 2nd quarter 1997.
The Labour Force Survey includes from 1996 an expanded survey frequency that will be repeated annually. More information: Ole Sandvik, tel. +47 21 09 45 77, e-mail: asa@ssb.no or Tor Petter Bø, tel. +47 21 09 47 87, e-mail: rpb@ssb.no.

Weekly Bulletin issue no. 37, 1997