Publications by title

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1. Incorporating gender issues in labour statistics

   01 February 1999

   Gender issues relate to the differences and similarities that exist between men and women in relation to their contributions, their conditions of work and life, and their needs, constraints and opportunities. In labour statistics, these aspects need to be reflected in definitions, measurement methods and presentation of results in order to improve the description of the labour market and provide a solid basis for promoting equality between men and women in the world of work.

2. Informal employment in Namibia 2008

   11 March 2011

   This paper reports on analysis of data from Namibia’s 2008 Labour Force Survey (LFS) so as to describe and compare informal and formal employment in the country. The paper is based on an understanding of informal employment which goes beyond the traditional concept of “informal sector”.

3. Integrated framework for the measurement of working time

   01 January 1992

4. Integration of data from different sources: Unemployment

   01 March 1998

   This article presents the first product of the ILO study: a table containing unemployment data collected from two types of sources - labour force surveys (LFSs) and administrative records (ARs) - in thirty-six countries.

5. International definitions and prospects of Underemployment Statistics

   01 November 1999

6. International training compendium on labour statistics

   09 February 2012

   The training material in Module 1 is the result of work done by the ILO Bureau of Statistics to assist countries worldwide to develop their statistics of the economically active population. The material presented here is based on work published by the International Labour Office. Jaime Pujol, ILO International Training Centre provided pedagogical guidance. From the Bureau of Statistics persons who contributed are: Ralf Hussmanns, Adriana Mata-Greenwood and Farhad Mehran, former Bureau director. Sophia Lawrence was responsible for the production of the module.

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1. Labour Accounts: A Step Forward to a Coherent and Timely Description of the Labour Market

   01 March 2002

   Provide an overview of the characteristic features of Labour Accounts and present the framework used for implementation in Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, and the possible policy implications for the future.

2. Labour accounts, core of the statistical system on labour

   01 June 1996

   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.

3. Labour statistics which are useful for gender concerns

   01 January 1999

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1. Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work

   23 March 2011

   This Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work is intended to guide countries in generating systematic and comparable data on volunteer work via regular supplements to labour force or other household surveys. The objective is to make available comparative cross-national data on a significant form of work that is growing in importance but that is often ignored or rarely captured in traditional economic statistics. Doing so will help to fulfill the United Nations Secretary General’s recommendations in his follow-up to the implementation of the International Year of Volunteers report (United Nations, 2005) that governments “vigorously” pursue “actions to build up a knowledge base” about volunteer work and to “establish the economic value of volunteering.”

2. Mapping the world of work: An international review of the work with occupational classifications and dictionaries

   01 January 1998

   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.

3. Measurement of employment, unemployment and underemployment – Current international standards and issues in their application

   30 March 2007

4. Measuring employment and unemployment through labour force surveys in transition countries: Methodology and data

   01 October 1997

   This article contains methodological descriptions as well as employment and unemployment data collected through Labour Force Surveys in fourteen transition countries.

5. Measuring public sector employment: a review of some methodological issues

   01 October 2003

6. Measuring working time: an alternative approach to clasifying time use

   01 June 1998

   collected from different sources in Ukraine. Also, an alternative procedure to balancing is proposed – integration of data from different sources.

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1. New Methodologies for Collecting Occupational Injury Data

   01 January 2000

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1. On measuring place of work

   01 January 2002

   The report examine why and how the issue of "place of work" was raised, discussed and tackled in various statistical fora. Then, in a second section, several countries’ experiences reviewed for this project are analysed. Third section tries to elaborate a conceptual framework for statistics on “place of work” and their use.

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1. Producing Labour Statistics that are useful for addressing gender concerns

   01 March 2003

   This paper identifies areas where national labour statistics as commonly produced could be improved in order to make them more complete and increase their quality and usefulness for revealing distinctions between men and women in the labour market, as well as the particularities of the work of men and women.

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1. 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)

   01 December 1996

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   Report II - Measurement of working time - 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, Geneva, 24 November - 5 December 2008

   02 March 2009

   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). It also has an important impact on productivity levels and labour costs for establishments, and on the general quality of life in all countries.