The topic of this document is to describe methodology of statistical monthly survey on trade and catering enterprises, estimation of short-term changes in turnover (VAT excluded), number of persons employed, hours worked, wages and salaries in Statistics Lithuania.

This document is organized in 8 parts. Part 1 defines the Survey purpose, Part 2 lists the Legal bases. Classifications used (National version (EVRK Rev. 2) of NACE Rev. 2) are the topic of Part 3. Part 4 describes the Survey population and parameters estimated. Part 5 deals with Methods used. Part 6 is devoted to Data sources and periodicity of data compilation. Part 7 gives information on release of the survey results to users (format, release dates, modes of dissemination). Finally, Part 8 points to actual Contact person with his/her contact details.

Custodian: Statistics Lithuania