It can be expected that the revision of international standards on underemployment will lead to increased and improved measurement in countries of both time-related underemployment and other forms of inadequate employment and thus to enhanced international comparability. In particular, assistance to countries in the redesign of their labour force surveys normally include support for the application of the current international definitions of underemployment (for example in Costa Rica, Chile, Jordan, Palestine, South Africa, and countries in Eastern Europe and the European Union).
A number of countries were already measuring time-related underemployment and some situations of inadequate employment before this resolution was adopted, using similar definitions (for example, Colombia, Japan, Argentina, Kenya and Turkey).