Minimum Wages - Data Collection Overview
Full name | WageIndicator Minimum Wages Database |
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Aims | The WageIndicator Minimum Wages Database includes all minimum wage rates agreed by national governments or wage boards. The information is published on the WageIndicator Minimum Wage pages. |
Data used for... | To publish minimum wages on the national WageIndicator websites and on the home page of WageIndicator. To compare minimum wages across countries. To generate a historic database of minimum wages. The WageIndicator Minimum Wage Database contains the minimum wage rates for the 200+ countries around the world. |
Countries covered | 77 have one national Minimum Wage rate. Another 71 have between 2 and 100 different Minimum Wages. Thirteen countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Panama, South Africa, Sri Lanka, USA) specify Minimum Wage Rates for more than a hundred different categories of workers. For India this even amounts up to over 13,000 different Minimum Wages, which are specified by state, regions within states, industries, occupations, and skill levels. |
Languages | Minimum wage web pages are available in the national language of the website and in English. |
Data collection method | The Database is based on desk research and on information from national correspondents. |
Data time frame | 2014 - ongoing |
Data updating policy | When wage boards update their rates |
Sampling Frame | Minimum wage rates published by governments or wage boards. The database started in 2005 for one country, and gradually the number of countries in the database increased. |
Nr. of Observations | Over 22,000 rates |
Data archive | Minimum Wage pages on national websites and at WageIndicator.org |
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DOI code | - |
Data visuals | |
Codebook/manual | - |
Long list variables | Minimum Wage rates are coded acording to geographical areas in the country, to industries (NACE/ISIC coding), to occupations (ISCO-08 coded), to firm size, to age group, whenever applicable. |
Formats | Website pages |
Citation | WageIndicator Minimum Wages Database [year, country, sector] |
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