International Conferences of Labour Statisticians

Subjects considered by International Conferences of Labour Statisticians

* resulted in a resolution which represents the current ILO recommendations on the subject. Subsequently, some issues in a specific resolution may have been the subject of later resolutions (for example, those relating to underemployment and income from employment).
# guidelines endorsed

Subject
Economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment
	ICLS	Year
Unemployment statistics	2^nd	1925
Employment and unemployment statistics	6^th	1947
Employment and unemployment statistics	8^th	1954
Measurement of underemployment	9^th	1957
Progress in the measurement of underemployment, particularly in less developed countries	10^th	1962
Measurement of underemployment	11^th	1966
Labour force, employment, unemployment and underemployment*	13^th	1982
Implications of employment promotion schemes on the measurement of employment and unemployment#	14^th	1987
Measurement of underemployment*	16^th	1998
Persons on extended absences from work#	16^th	1998

Measurement of employment in the informal sector
	ICLS	Year
Employment in the informal sector	14^th	1987
Statistics of employment in the informal sector*	15^th	1993

Child labour statistics
	ICLS	Year
Methodological considerations	16^th	1998

Measurement of hours of work and absence from work
	ICLS	Year
Statistics of hours of work*	10^th	1962
Statistics of paid holidays	13^th	1982
Statistics of absence from work	14^th	1987
Concept and measurement of absence from work	15^th	1993

Income from employment, wages and labour cost
	ICLS	Year
Statistics of wages and hours of labour	1^st	1923
International comparisons of real wages	2^nd	1925
International comparisons of real wages	4^th	1931
Convention concerning statistics of wages and hours of work	5^th	1937
Wages and payroll statistics	7^th	1949
International comparisons of real wages: a study of methods	8^th	1954
Developments relating to Convention 63	8^th	1954
Wages statistics	9^th	1957
Progress in the application of Convention 63	10^th	1962
Statistics of labour cost*	11^th	1966
Statistics of wages and employee income*	12^th	1973
Revision of the ILO October Inquiry on Occupation Wages	13^th	1982
Income from employment	15^th	1993
Measurement of income from employment*	16^th	1998

Occupational injuries and diseases
	ICLS	Year
Statistics of industrial accidents	1^st	1923
Statistics of industrial accidents	6^th	1947
Standardization of statistics of industrial injuries and occupational diseases	7^th	1949
Methods of statistics of occupational diseases	8^th	1954
Statistics of employment injuries	9^th 10^th	1957 1962
Statistics of occupational injuries	13^th 16^th*	1982 1998

Strikes and lockouts
	ICLS	Year
Statistics of strikes and lockouts	3^rd	1926
Industrial disputes: statistics of strikes	14^th	1987
Statistics of strikes, lockouts and other forms of industrial action*	15^th	1993

Collective agreements
	ICLS	Year
Statistics of collective agreements*	3^rd	1926

Labour productivity
	ICLS	Year
Statistics of labour productivity	7^th	1949
Developments in labour productivity statistics	8^th	1954

Social security
	ICLS	Year
Social security statistics: development and uses*	9^th	1957
Progress in the field of social security statistics	10^th	1962

Household income and expenditure
	ICLS	Year
Family budget surveys	3^rd	1926
Methods of family living surveys	7^th	1949
Family budgets and consumer prices	9^th	1957
Scope, method and uses of family expenditure surveys*	12^th	1973

Consumer price indices
	ICLS	Year
Cost-of-living index numbers	2^nd 6^th	1925 1947
Special problems in the computation of consumer price index numbers	10^th	1962
Consumer price indices*	14^th	1987

Integrated system for labour statistics
	ICLS	Year
Framework for a labour accounting system	15^th	1993

Classification of industries and occupations
	ICLS	Year
Classification of industries and occupations	1^st 2^nd 3^rd	1923 1925 1926
International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)	7^th	1949
ISCO minor groups	8^th	1954
ISCO major, minor and unit groups	9^th	1957
Revision of ISCO	11^th 13^th 14th*	1966 1982 1987

Classification according to status in employment
	ICLS	Year
International classification according to status in employment (ICSE)	9^th	1957
Revision of ICSE*	15^th	1993
Status in employment (ICSE-93)	16^th	1998

Presentation and dissemination of labour statistics
	ICLS	Year
International coding of labour statistics	13^th	1982
Dissemination practices for labour statistics#	16^th	1998

Created by EH. Updated by AL. Last update: 22 November 1999.