Yearbook of labour statistics 2007. Time series and Country profiles. (Trilingual: Eng, Fr, Sp)

Since its first edition in 1935–36, the Yearbook of Labour Statistics has established itself as the world’s foremost work of statistical reference on labour questions, bringing together in systematic form a mass of data from a vast network of authoritative sources of information in some 190 countries.

Data are published, wherever possible, according to the latest versions of the following international standard classifications: International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (ISIC), Revision 3; International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88); International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-93) and the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), 1976.

This new edition is being released in two volumes:

Time series continues the time series format of the earlier editions and contains 31 tables corresponding to nine major substantive chapters on economically active population, employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages, labour cost, consumer prices, occupational injuries, and strikes and lockouts. The series usually cover the preceding ten years.

Country profiles introduces a new format showing the latest available statistics (without time series) on each of the topics listed above for each of over 190 countries, areas and territories, and also includes global and regional estimates on the economically active population, employment and unemployment. Data with monthly, quarterly or half-yearly frequency relating to general series on employment, unemployment, hours of work, wages and consumer price indices are published in the Bulletin of Labour Statistics.