Background Documents - Workshop on OECS LFS

Manuals and Guidelines

• OECS Labour Force Survey: Quick Reference - Concepts and Definitions
• 2005 Labour Force Survey Manual - Enumerators and Supervisors
• Measurement of employment, unemployment and underemployment – Current international standards and issues in their application Ralf Hussmanns (ILO Bureau of Statistics)
• Surveys of economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment: An ILO manual on concepts and methods

Sampling

• Construction and use of sample weights - Ibrahim S. Yansaneh, 2003
• Designing Household Survey Samples: Practical Guidelines United Nations, New York, 2008
• Household Sample Surveys in Developing and Transition Countries United Nations, New York, 2005
• Recommendation for the Preparation of Sample Survey Reports (Provisional Issue) - United Nations, New York, 1964

International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS)

• Guidelines concerning a statistical definition of informal employment
• Guidelines on the implications of employment promotion schemes on the measurement of employment and unemployment, endorsed by the Fourteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians
• Guidelines concerning treatment in employment and unemployment statistics of persons on extended absences from work, endorsed by the Sixteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians

• Resolution concerning the measurement of employment-related income, adopted by the Sixteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians
• Resolution concerning the measurement of working time
• Resolution concerning the measurement of underemployment and inadequate employment situations, adopted by the Sixteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians
• Resolution concerning statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment, adopted by the Thirteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians