Statistical knowledge base
The ILO Social Protection Department undertakes three main areas of activities in the field of statistiques:
- Building a global statistical knowledge base and promoting a minimum set of data, indicators and analytical results. The Department has developed the Social security inquiry and additional associated databases to collect, store and disseminate, on a regular and sustainable basis, comparable statistics on social security programmes (financing, expenditure, benefit levels and coverage). Main data and indicators are published in the World Social Security Report.
- Providing technical assistance and training at national level in collaboration with field offices aiming at enhancing national capacities to generate comprehensive social security data. In countries where statistics are available, activities focus on analyzing data to help countries to define their social protection policies and improve the effectiveness of existing schemes and extending their scope. This includes the assessment of coverage gaps and needs which contributes to the definition of appropriate action for the extension. In many developing countries the priority is to improve national capacity to generate and use data at the scheme level and to generate comprehensive social security data at the national level.
- Designing and developing methodological tools to collect data on social security to analyze data with the aim of monitoring social security systems and developing policies.
Resources
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World Social Security Report 2010: Providing coverage in the time of crisis and beyond
Novembre 2010This report is the first of a series whose chief aim is to present the results of regular statistical monitoring of the state and developments of social security in the world. It provides a factual basis to support the development of national social security policies. It's main objective report is to present the knowledge available on coverage by social security in different parts of the world, and to identify existing coverage gaps.
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Decent Work Indicators - Concepts and definitions
21 June 2012Decent work is central to sustainable poverty reduction and is a means for achieving equitable, inclusive and sustainable development. The 2008 ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization recommends the establishment of appropriate indicators to monitor and evaluate the progree made in the implementation of the ILO Decent Work Agenda. The ILO is supporting member States through technical assistance and capacity buikding at national, sub-regional and regional levels in this regard.