Convention concerning Labour Statistics (Note: Date of coming
into force: 24:04:1988.)
Convention:C160
Place: Geneva
Session of the Conference:71
Date of adoption:25:06:1985 See the ratifications for this Convention
The General Conference of the International Labour
Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the
International Labour Office, and having met in its Seventy-first Session on 7
June 1985, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with
regard to the revision of the Convention concerning Statistics of Wages and
Hours of Work, 1938 (No. 63), which is the fifth item on the agenda of the
session, and
Considering that these proposals should take the form of an
international Convention,
adopts the twenty-fifth day of June of the year one thousand
nine hundred and eighty-five, the following Convention, which may be cited as
the Labour Statistics Convention, 1985:
Each Member which ratifies this Convention undertakes that
it will regularly collect, compile and publish basic labour statistics, which
shall be progressively expanded in accordance with its resources to cover the
following subjects:
economically active population, employment, where
relevant unemployment, and where possible visible underemployment;
structure and distribution of the economically active
population, for detailed analysis and to serve as benchmark data;
average earnings and hours of work (hours actually worked
or hours paid for) and, where appropriate, time rates of wages and normal
hours of work;
wage structure and distribution;
labour cost;
consumer price indices;
household expenditure or, where appropriate, family
expenditure and, where possible, household income or, where appropriate,
family income;
occupational injuries and, as far as possible,
occupational diseases; and
industrial disputes.
Article 2
In designing or revising the concepts, definitions and
methodology used in the collection, compilation and publication of the
statistics required under this Convention, Members shall take into consideration
the latest standards and guidelines established under the auspices of the
International Labour Organisation.
Article 3
In designing or revising the concepts, definitions and
methodology used in the collection, compilation and publication of the
statistics required under this Convention, the representative organisations of
employers and workers, where they exist, shall be consulted with a view to
taking into account their needs and to ensuring their co-operation.
Article 4
Nothing in this Convention shall impose an obligation to
publish or reveal data which could result in the disclosure in any way of
information relating to an individual statistical unit, such as a person, a
household, an establishment or an enterprise.
Article 5
Each Member which ratifies this Convention undertakes to
communicate to the International Labour Office, as soon as practicable, the
published statistics compiled in pursuance of the Convention and information
concerning their publication, in particular:
the reference information appropriate to the means of
dissemination used (titles and reference numbers in the case of printed
publications and the equivalent descriptions in the case of data
disseminated in other forms); and
the most recent dates or periods for which the different
types of statistics are available, and the dates of their publication or
release.
Article 6
Detailed descriptions of the sources, concepts, definitions
and methodology used in collecting and compiling statistics in pursuance of this
Convention shall be:
produced and updated to reflect significant changes;
communicated to the International Labour Office as soon
as practicable; and
Current statistics of the economically active population,
employment, where relevant unemployment, and where possible visible
underemployment, shall be compiled in such a way as to be representative of the
country as a whole.
Article 8
Statistics of the structure and distribution of the
economically active population shall be compiled in such a way as to be
representative of the country as a whole, for detailed analysis and to serve as
benchmark data.
Article 9
Current statistics of average earnings and hours of work
(hours actually worked or hours paid for) shall be compiled covering all
important categories of employees and all important branches of economic
activity, and in such a way as to be representative of the country as a
whole.
Where appropriate, statistics of time rates of wages and
normal hours of work shall be compiled covering important occupations or
groups of occupations in important branches of economic activity, and in
such a way as to be representative of the country as a whole.
Article 10
Statistics of wage structure and distribution shall be
compiled covering employees in important branches of economic activity.
Article 11
Statistics of labour cost shall be compiled covering
important branches of economic activity. Where possible, these statistics shall
be consistent with data on employment and hours of work (hours actually worked
or hours paid for) of the same scope.
Article 12
Consumer price indices shall be computed in order to measure
variations over time in the prices of items representative of the consumption
patterns of significant population groups or of the total population.
Article 13
Statistics of household expenditure or, where appropriate,
family expenditure and, where possible, household income or, where appropriate,
family income shall be compiled covering all types and sizes of private
households or families, and in such a way as to be representative of the country
as a whole.
Article 14
Statistics of occupational injuries shall be compiled in
such a way as to be representative of the country as a whole, covering,
where possible, all branches of economic activity.
As far as possible, statistics of occupational diseases
shall be compiled covering all branches of economic activity, and in such a
way as to be representative of the country as a whole.
Article 15
Statistics of industrial disputes shall be compiled in such
a way as to be representative of the country as a whole, covering, where
possible, all branches of economic activity.
Each Member which ratifies this Convention shall, in
pursuance of the general obligations referred to in Part I, accept the
obligations of the Convention in respect of one or more of the Articles of
Part II.
Each Member shall specify in its ratification the Article
or Articles of Part II in respect of which it accepts the obligations of
this Convention.
Each Member which has ratified this Convention may
subsequently notify the Director-General of the International Labour Office
that it accepts the obligations of the Convention in respect of one or more
of the Articles of Part II which were not already specified in its
ratification. These notifications shall have the force of ratification as
from the date of their communication.
Each Member which has ratified this Convention shall
state, in its reports on the application of the Convention submitted under
article 22 of the Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, the
position of its law and practice on the subjects covered by the Articles of
Part II in respect of which it has not accepted the obligations of the
Convention and the extent to which effect is given or is proposed to be
given to the Convention in respect of such subjects.
Article 17
A Member may limit initially the scope of the statistics
referred to in the Article or Articles of Part II in respect of which it has
accepted the obligations of this Convention to specified categories of
workers, sectors of the economy, branches of economic activity or
geographical areas.
Each Member which limits the scope of the statistics in
pursuance of paragraph 1 of this Article shall indicate in its first report
on the application of the Convention submitted under article 22 of the
Constitution of the International Labour Organisation, the Article or
Articles of Part II to which the limitation applies, stating the nature of
and reasons for such limitation, and shall state in subsequent reports the
extent to which it has been possible or it is proposed to extend the scope
to other categories of workers, sectors of the economy, branches of economic
activity or geographical areas.
After consulting the representative organisations of
employers and workers concerned, a Member may, by a declaration communicated
to the Director-General of the International Labour Office in the month
following each anniversary of the coming into force of the Convention,
introduce subsequent limitations on the technical scope of the statistics
covered by the Article or Articles of Part II in respect of which it has
accepted the obligations of the Convention. Such declarations shall take
effect one year after the date on which they are registered. Each Member
which introduces such limitations shall provide in its reports on the
application of the Convention submitted under article 22 of the Constitution
of the International Labour Organisation the particulars referred to in
paragraph 2 of this Article.
Article 18
This Convention revises the Convention concerning Statistics
of Wages and Hours of Work, 1938.
The formal ratifications of this Convention shall be
communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for
registration.
Article 20
This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members
of the International Labour Organisation whose ratifications have been
registered with the Director-General.
It shall come into force twelve months after the date on
which the ratifications of two Members have been registered with the
Director-General.
Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any
member twelve months after the date on which its ratification has been
registered.
Article 21
A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce
it, after the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention
first comes into force, by an act communicated to the Director-General of
the International Labour Office for registration. Such denunciation shall
not take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered.
Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which
does not, within the year following the expiration of the period of ten
years mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of
denunciation provided for in this Article, will be bound for another period
of ten years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration
of each period of ten years under the terms provided for in this Article.
After consulting the representative organisations of
employers and workers concerned, a Member which has ratified this Convention
may, after the expiration of five years from the date on which the
Convention first comes into force, by a declaration communicated to the
Director-General of the International Labour Office, withdraw its acceptance
of the obligations of the Convention in respect of one or more of the
Articles of Part II, provided that it maintains its acceptance of these
obligations in respect of at least one of these Articles. Such withdrawal
shall not take effect until one year after the date on which it was
registered.
Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which
does not, within the year following the expiration of the period of five
years mentioned in paragraph 3 of this Article, exercise the right of
withdrawal provided for in that paragraph, shall be bound by the Articles of
Part II in respect of which it has accepted the obligations of the
Convention for another period of five years and, thereafter, may withdraw
its acceptance of these obligations at the expiration of each period of five
years under the terms provided for in this Article.
Article 22
The Director-General of the International Labour Office
shall notify all Members of the International Labour Organisation of the
registration of all ratifications and denunciations communicated to him by
the Members of the Organisations.
When notifying the Members of the Organisations of the
registration of the second ratification communicated to him, the
Director-General shall draw the attention of the Members of the Organisation
of the date upon which the Convention will come into force.
Article 23
The Director-General of the International Labour Office
shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the United Nations for
registration in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations
full particulars of all ratifications and acts of denunciation registered by him
in accordance with the provisions of the preceding Articles.
Article 24
At such times as it may consider necessary the Governing
Body of the International Labour Office shall present to the General Conference
a report on the working of this Convention and shall examine the desirability of
placing on the agenda of the Conference the question of its revision in whole or
in part.
Article 25
Should the Conference adopt a new Convention revising
this Convention in whole or in part, then, unless the new Convention
otherwise provides-
the ratification by a Member of the new revising
Convention shall ipso jure involve the immediate denunciation of this
Convention, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 21 above, if and
when the new revising Convention shall have come into force;
as from the date when the new revising Convention
comes into force this Convention shall cease to be open to ratification
by the Members.
This Convention shall in any case remain in force in its
actual form and content for those Members which have ratified it but have
not ratified the revising Convention.
Article 26
The English and French versions of the text of this
Convention are equally authoritative.
