Today, women in the Nordics are among the most active labour market participants in the world, but the goal of equal conditions in the labour market is far from being achieved. One of the clearest indicators of this are pay differentials between women and men. To help reduce the pay differentials the Nordic Council of Ministers has initiated a project on pay equity. This report presents a pilot study that investigated how available official statistics can be used to analyse pay differences between women and men in work of equal value at the national level in the Nordic countries. In particular, statistics from Finland, Norway and Sweden were analysed. The pilot study examined how statistics can be applied in the case of occupations that have already been assessed as being of equal value, i.e. as if the occupations were equal. The report concludes with recommendations from the study.