First Results

The average monthly paid off net earning per person in paid employment in legal entities of the Republic of Croatia for December 2009 amounted to 5 362 kuna.

The data on the effect of the special tax on the average monthly paid off net earning per person in paid employment in legal entities of the Republic of Croatia for December 2009 will be issued, along with regular data, on 26 February 2010 in the First Release No. 9.1.1/12. entitled the Average Monthly Paid Off Net Earnings of Persons in Paid Employment in 2009.

AVERAGE GROSS EARNINGS

The average monthly gross earning per person in paid employment in legal entities in the Republic of Croatia for December 2009 amounted to 7 783 kuna.

MINIMUM WAGE

Based on Article 4, Paragraph 3 and 4, of the Minimum Wage Act (Official Gazette No. 67/2008), the minimum wage for the period from 1 June 2009 to 31 May 2010 in the Republic of Croatia amounts to 2 814.00 kuna. (published in Official Gazette No. 65/2009.)

REGISTERED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE

The registered unemployment rate for January 2010 was 17,7%.

TOURISM

In January 2010¹⁾

	Index I. 2010 I. 2009	Structure in 2010, %
Arrivals
Total	81,4	100,0
Domestic	86,1	58,1
Foreign	75,7	41,9
Nights
Total	83,6	100,0
Domestic	90,1	57,8
Foreign	76,0	42,2

1) Due to changes in methodology of monitoring of tourist arrivals and nights, conditioned
by the implementation of new legal regulations for monitoring of tourists, 2009 data have
been revised so they can be comparable to 2010 (nautical ports are excluded).

RETAIL TRADE TURNOVER, JANUARY 2010

Starting with January 2010, the Central Bureau of Statistics has started to apply new concepts in publishing monthly retail trade indicators, which are based on the experience of other European countries.

In order to achieve the full harmonisation with the Eurostat regulation as well as to release monthly indicators of changes in the retail trade turnover as planned (a month after the end of a reference month), the Central Bureau of Statistics is going to issue first results for the basic aggregate, which will be delivered to the Eurostat. In addition, it is going to issue an indicator for national purposes (retail trade turnover).

Due to a very short deadline and possible subsequent data corrections, the Central Bureau of Statistics is going to issue revised and detailed indicators in a regular first release two weeks after these first results.

In case of significant changes in methodology and data corrections, the Central Bureau of Statistics will revise data for previous periods if necessary.

Seasonal and working-day effect has not been eliminated from the indices.

The first part of the table shows indices of the total turnover of business entities, registered by their prevailing activities into division 47 of the NKD 2007.

The second part of the table shows indices of the turnover generated from the retail trade activity of all business entities engaged in the retail trade, irrespective of their prevailing activity.

	I. 2010. Ø 2005.	I. 2010. I. 2009.
RETAIL TRADE – TOTAL TURNOVER OF DIVISION 47
- Nominally	90,5	90,2
- Really	79,7	89,5
TURNOVER FROM RETAIL TRADE
- Nominally	80,0	92,2
- Really	70,4	91,5

LABOUR FORCE SURVEY

One of the goals behind the process of harmonising the official statistics of the Republic of Croatia with the EU statistics is to shorten the deadlines for publishing the results of the Labour Force Survey. For that purpose, the first results on the economic activity of the population in the Republic of Croatia are published during the third quarter of 2009.

The first results of the Labour Force Survey for the third quarter of 2009 show that the working age population in the Republic of Croatia, as defined by the lower age limit only (15+), numbered 3 720 000 persons. Among them, 1 761 000 persons were present on the labour market, either as employed or unemployed, thus comprising the labour force in the Republic of Croatia. There were
1 608 000 persons in employment and 153 000 unemployed persons. The remaining 1 959 000 persons over 15 years were not present on the labour market, hence, they were economically inactive.

The analysis of relative measures within the main categories of the economic activity shows the following: the share of active persons within the working age population (activity rate) was 47.3%, while, at the same time, 43.2% of the working age population was employed (employment rate) and 8.7% of the labour force was unemployed (unemployment rate).

The Labour Force Survey results for the third quarter of 2009 will be published in the first release of the Central Bureau of Statistics No. 9.2.7/3. on 13th January 2010, both in printed form and on the website of the Central Bureau of Statistics.

WORKING AGE POPULATION, BY ACTIVITY AND SEX

'000
	VII. – IX. 2008.	X. – XII. 2008.	I. – III. 2009.	IV. – VI. 2009.	VII. – IX. 2009.
Total
Working age population (15+)	3 693	3 713	3 691	3 685	3 720
Labour force	1 807	1 788	1 775	1 768	1 761
Persons in employment	1 681	1 633	1 608	1 611	1 608
Unemployed persons	126	155	167	157	153
Inactive population	1 886	1 925	1 915	1 918	1 959
%
Activity rate	48,9	48,2	48,1	48,0	47,3
Employment/population ratio	45,5	44,0	43,6	43,7	43,2
Unemployment rate	7,0	8,7	9,4	8,9	8,7
Men
Working age population (15+)	1 752	1 734	1 721	1 725	1 748
Labour force	985	967	954	950	941
Persons in employment	927	899	880	874	863
Unemployed persons	58	68	74	77	78
Inactive population	767	767	767	775	807
%
Activity rate	56,2	55,8	55,4	55,1	53,8
Employment/population ratio	52,9	51,9	51,1	50,7	49,4
Unemployment rate	5,9	7,0	7,8	8,1	8,3
Women
Working age population (15+)	1 941	1 979	1 970	1 960	1 972
Labour force	821	821	821	817	820
Persons in employment	753	734	728	737	745
Unemployed persons	68	87	93	80	75
Inactive population	1 119	1 158	1 148	1 142	1 152
%
Activity rate	42,3	41,5	41,7	41,7	41,6
Employment/population ratio	38,8	37,1	37,0	37,6	37,8
Unemployment rate	8,3	10,6	11,4	9,8	9,2