Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey, 2000-2023: Secure Access

<p>The <i>Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey</i> (MWSS) is the main source of information for three key indicators of Short-Term Earnings generated by the Office for National Statistics: the Average Earnings Index, the Average Weekly Earnings and the Index of Labour Costs per Hour.<br>
<br>The MWSS is distributed monthly to approximately 8,800 businesses and covers around 12.8 million employees. Companies are required to respond under the Statistics of Trade Act 1947. Businesses are selected from the Inter-Departmental Business Register. Every company with more than 1,000 employees is surveyed. Sampling is random for businesses with fewer than 1,000 employees. The MWSS does not cover businesses with fewer than 20 employees, and so the very smallest businesses in the economy are not represented. The self-employed and government-supported trainees are also not surveyed.<br>
<br>The major strength of the MWSS is that it provides comprehensive information on earnings, by industry. In terms of industrial coverage, information on all industries is collected, as defined by the Standard Industrial Classifications (1992). Information on both the public and private sectors is available.<br>
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<i>Linking to other business studies</i><br>These data contain Inter-Departmental Business Register reference numbers. These are anonymous but unique reference numbers assigned to business organisations. Their inclusion allows researchers to combine different business survey sources together. Researchers may consider applying for other business data to assist their research.<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">Latest edition information<br></span>For the thirty-seventh edition (February 2024),  three monthly data files for July, August and September 2023 have been added to the study.</p>

《月度工资与薪酬调查》（Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey, 简称MWSS）是英国国家统计局（Office for National Statistics, 简称ONS）编制短期收入相关三项核心指标的主要信息来源，这三项指标分别为平均收入指数、周平均收入以及单位小时劳动成本指数。

该调查每月向约8800家企业发放问卷，覆盖约1280万名雇员。根据1947年《贸易统计法案》（Statistics of Trade Act 1947），企业有义务完成问卷反馈。调查样本从跨部门企业登记册（Inter-Departmental Business Register, 简称IDBR）中抽取：雇员人数超过1000人的企业将被全数纳入调查；雇员人数不足1000人的企业则通过随机抽样方式选取。《月度工资与薪酬调查》不覆盖雇员人数不足20人的企业，因此经济体中规模极小的企业无法被代表；个体经营者及政府资助受训人员也不在调查范围内。

该调查的核心优势在于可按行业维度提供全面的收入相关信息。在行业覆盖范围上，其严格遵循1992年版《标准行业分类》（Standard Industrial Classifications (1992)）采集全行业数据，同时涵盖公共部门与私营部门的相关信息。

## 与其他企业研究的关联
本次数据集包含跨部门企业登记册的参考编号，此类编号为匿名且唯一的企业组织标识。通过该编号，研究人员可实现不同企业调查数据源的整合。研究人员亦可申请其他企业数据集以辅助自身研究工作。

## 最新版本信息
第37版（2024年2月发布）新增了2023年7月、8月及9月的三份月度数据文件。