News

October 2010

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   World Statistics Day - 20 October

   ILO launches new statistics database: Short term indicators of the labour market

   20 October 2010

   Timely information on the labour market and consumer prices are indispensable for drawing up appropriate policy responses to the global economic crisis. To facilitate this, and also to commemorate World Statistics Day on 20 October, the ILO Department of Statistics has launched a new short-term indicators database.

December 2008

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   International Conference of Labour Statisticians

   Countries approve ground-breaking means to measure today’s world of work

   05 December 2008

   The 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians ended with the adoption of new international statistical standards on child labour and working time as well as new guidelines for the measurement of decent work, labour underutilization and volunteer work.