All publications: statistics + labour statistics

Report on the pilot project towards developing statistical tools for measuring employment in the environmental sector and generating...

This report provides information on the survey development, questionnaire design, concepts and definitions, methodology of data collection, as well as main findings of employment in the environmental sector and green jobs in one of the pilot...

Employment Statistical Update

Tobacco Sector - Employment Statistical Update

In 2003 the ILO organized a Tripartite Meeting on the Future of Employment in the Tobacco Sector. The meeting highlighted the importance of timely information in order to monitor significant changes in employment trends and working conditions in the...

Measuring Employment in the Tourism Industries - Guide with Best Practices

The Guide is one of the technical outputs produced under the joint ILO/UNWTO Agreement which completes a series of international references and methodological tools produced within the framework of the joint ILO/UNWTO Agreement.

G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting

G20: Achieving stronger growth by promoting a more gender-balanced economy

Report prepared for the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting held in Melbourne, Australia, 10-11 September 2014. By the International Labour Organization (ILO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic...

G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting

G20 labour markets: outlook, key challenges and policy responses

Report prepared for the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting (LEEM) by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank Group. The LEMM is taking place on...

G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting

Informality and the quality of employment in G20 countries

ILO Report prepared for the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting held in Melbourne, Australia, 10-11 September 2014.

G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting

G20: Creating Safe and Healthy Workplaces for All

ILO Report prepared for the G20 Labour and Employment Ministerial Meeting held in Melbourne, Australia, 10-11 September 2014.

Survey tools

Interactive tools in sampling with household-based child labour surveys

The ILO Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) has developed a set of interactive tools in sampling with household-based child labour surveys or, more generally, surveys dealing with work-related activities of children living in private...

The Taqeem Fund: Results-based monitoring and evaluation for youth employment in the MENA region: Public-Private Partnership

To support youth employment initiatives and improving the effectiveness of their programs, the ILO initiated work on results-based monitoring and evaluation. This new public-private partnership (PPP) supports a select group of small and medium-sized...

The twin challenges of child labour and educational marginalisation in the ECOWAS region - An overview

As part of the efforts to address the present urgent situation, Governments and regional institutions have developed the ECOWAS Child Policy and the accompanying Strategic Plan of Action for the ECOWAS Child Policy, as well as the West Africa...

EC/ILO MAP Project: Report of the final conference

2013 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean.

Twenty years after the Labour Overview was first published, we analyze the challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean today. We also take a retrospective look at two very distinct decades for the labour markets of the region and envision the...

2014 Labour Overview. Latin America and the Caribbean.

The 2014 Labour Overview of Latin America and the Caribbean is characterized by slower economic growth. Following a decade of robust growth, during which the region created jobs and improved the quality of employment, there is uncertainty and...

The twin challenges of child labour and educational marginalisation in the South-East and East Asia region: An overview

In view of the measurement challenges, and in order to facilitate cross-country comparisons, the Report uses two methods to approximate child labour. It first presents child labour estimates based on the methodology employed by ILO in its global...

Revision and Enhancement of the Labour Market Data Sources: Towards Setting Up the Labour Market Information System in Brunei Darussalam...

In response to a request from the Brunei Government, this project aims to improve the availability, quality and use of labour market information to effectively contribute to the development, monitoring and implementation of the National Human...

Philippines - 2011 Survey on children 5 to 17 years old - Final report

This 2011 SOC Report presents information on the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the working c hildrend aged 5 to 17 years as well as some information on the households they belonged to. lt presents survey findings about child...

Report of the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (Geneva, 2–11 October 2013) and the Tripartite Meeting of Experts in...

The Governing Body is invited to take note of the Conference report of the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians and to request the Director-General to take into account its recommendations in the future work programme of the Office,...

Baseline survey in cocoa-growing districts in Ghana - Household Survey Report

The task of the baseline survey was to assess child labour in agriculture in Ghana, focusing particularly on cocoa, and with the aim to provide information that will contribute to the prevention and elimination in Ghana.

NCLS report

Cambodia Labour Force and Child labour Survey 2012: Labour Force Report

This report presents the characteristics of the labour force, employment, unemployment and some decent work indicators. The information provides a good picture of the labour force and employment situation in Cambodia.

ICLS 2013 - Statistics on labour migration and resolution IV

Comprehensive official national and international statistics on the economically active migrant population are still lacking, in part due to varying definitions of "international migration" and "international labour migration" used by agencies...