Surveys of economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment: An ILO Manual on Concepts and Methods
This manual is based on the international standards on statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment, adopted by the 13th International Conference of Labour Statisticians in October 1982. Its two main objectives are to explain the international concepts and definitions in more detail than in the 1982 conference resolution and to provide technical guidelines on the application of international standards for collecting data on the economically active population through household surveys. To make 8it as self-contained as possible, general methodological issues (such as sampling, questionnaire design, field operations, data processing and data evaluation), with particular focus on surveys of economically active population, are also discussed.
The manual is meant to serve as a reference for statisticians, both managers or technicians, who are involved in initiating or redesigning surveys of the economically active population. Another target group are those who have to process or retabulate the data of an already existing survey, or adjust the aggregate figures so as to produce results which are closer to the international standards. The manual may also help to provide users of statistics (researchers, journalists, politicians, workers' and employers' representatives) with a better understanding of the international concepts ad definitions, and a more varied knowledge of data collection methods and procedures.
