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Preparatory Regional Meeting of Labour Statisticians in support of the 19th ICLS (Western Asia and North Africa)

Organized by the ILO in partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)

Type: Meeting
When: 18 - 20 June 2012
Where: Beirut, Lebanon
Purpose and objectives:

The main purpose of the Preparatory Regional Meeting is to bring the consultation and technical discussions to countries in Western Asia and North Africa, to ensure that the revised draft proposal adequately reflects the labour markets and labour force data priorities of countries in the region. A similar consultation process will be carried out in all other regions of the world.


Specifically the meeting aimed at:

Informing participants about the review process in preparation for the 19th ICLS;

Presented the current proposals for the review and update of the international standards of statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment ; and

Gathered feedback and promote discussion among participants to generate new ideas and further refinements to the proposed draft revisions.

Tags: employment, unemployment, statistics, ILO meetings

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