Publications by subject

• Report II - Measurement of working time - 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, Geneva, 24 November - 5 December 2008 - [pdf 503 KB] - Buy now
  The International Labour Organization has long been concerned with the regulation of working time as one aspect which has a direct and measurable impact on the health and well-being of working persons, their level of fatigue and stress (and on that of the people close to them). ...
• Statistical pattern analysis and its procedure - [pdf 55 KB]
  The "Statistical Pattern Analysis" (SPA) using a computer system is perhaps one of the simplest and most useful methods for statistical analysis in the case of integrated use of several indices. ...
• Labour accounts, core of the statistical system on labour - [pdf 37 KB]
  This article reflects some of the main issues dealt with in a thesis on labour accounts, a part of the statistical system of labour. The thesis, successfully defended at the University of Amsterdam by the authors of this article, has been published in English by Statistics Netherlands.
• Statistics on international migration: A review of sources and methodological issues - [pdf 371 KB]
  The present report complements a manual which aims at strengthening national capacity in generating relevant and more meaningful data on international migration required for policy formulation.

Child labour 

• ILO labour force participation rates for 10-14 years old versus UNESCO school enrolment ratios - [pdf 23 KB]
  The purpose of this article is to evaluate the ILO data in relation to the UNSECO data on school enrolment for 44 countries for the year 1990. ...

Classifications 

• Constructing a map of the world of work: How to develop the structure and contents of a national standard classification of occupations - [pdf 223 KB]
  This Working Paper presents practical guidelines for those who want to develop a National Standard Classification of Occupations (NSCO) with definitions and descriptions of the component groups.
• Coding occupation and industry in a population census - [pdf 99 KB]
  This working paper covers issues which must be addressed when questions related to ‘occupation’ and ‘industry’ are to be included in a population census.
• Economic characteristics in a population census - [pdf 343 KB]
  The objective of this Working Paper is to discuss in detail what questions to ask on each of the nine economic topics included in the revised UN Principles and Recommendations for Population and Housing Censuses.
• Status in Employment: a world survey of practices and problems - [pdf 84 KB]
• Mapping the world of work: An international review of the work with occupational classifications and dictionaries - [pdf 105 KB]
  This paper presents an overview of the work undertaken to develop, use and maintain national occupational classifications and dictionaries and the role of and corresponding work with the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88) and its regional variants.
• What kind of work do you do? Data collection and processing strategies when measuring "occupation" for statistical surveys and administrative records - [pdf 177 KB]
  This Working Paper presents practical guidelines for those who want to register the characteristic (variable) "occupation" in a statistical survey or on administrative records.

LABORSTA 

• ILO dissemination of international labour statistics on Internet - [pdf 394 KB]

Employment and unemployment 

• Measurement of employment, unemployment and underemployment – Current international standards and issues in their application - [pdf 158 KB]
• Statistics on the employment situation of people with disabilities: A Compendium of national methodologies - [pdf 1268 KB]
  This Compendium describes the methodologies currently in use in 95 countries to compile statistics on employment status in conjunction with disability.
• Improving Labour Statistics in Ukraine Through the Integration of Employment and Unemployment Data From Different Sources - [pdf 94 KB]
  This paper attempts to compare and reconcile employment and unemployment data collected from different sources in Ukraine. Also, an alternative procedure to balancing is proposed – integration of data from different sources.
• International definitions and prospects of Underemployment Statistics - [pdf 90 KB]
• Measuring employment and unemployment through labour force surveys in transition countries: Methodology and data - [pdf 111 KB]
  This article contains methodological descriptions as well as employment and unemployment data collected through Labour Force Surveys in fourteen transition countries.
• Recommendations of the Joint ILO/Czech Statistical Office Meeting on the statistical treatment of persons on extended types of leave in respect to the international definitions of employment and unemployment (Prague, 15-17 November 1995) - [pdf 11 KB]
• Evolution of the economically active population from 1950 to 1995 and forecasts for the year 2010 - [pdf 8 KB]
  Estimates and projections, by sex and age group, of the economically active population, 1950-2010. Individual projections are presented for all countries and/or territories of the world which in 1990 had attained or exceeded the threshold of 200,000 inhabitants.
• Simplified measurement of underemployment: Results of a labour force sample survey in Namibia - [pdf 20 KB]