The ILO is launching a new work programme, at the request of its constituents, aimed at developing international statistical standards, definitions, and measurement frameworks for care work. This comes at a pivotal moment, at a time when there is unprecedented global, regional and national interest in care work and care economy.
Measuring sexual orientation and gender identity with official statistics is still a very new endeavour faced with many challenges, but legal and social advances are leading to the identification of these minorities in population censuses in more countries.
In this blog, we highlight key developments which have greatly enhanced the visibility of women’s work within labour statistics, and the relevance of labour statistics to women’s work, making for a much more complete view of the world of work.
Making labour statistics work for women: recent developments and the way ahead Read More »
This revised version of the “Hard to see, harder to count” handbook provides an updated set of tools for the design, implementation and analysis of quantitative surveys on the forced labour of adults.
Hard to see, harder to count: Handbook on forced labour surveys Read More »
This issue of Spolight on Work Statistics discusses an indicator recently developed by the ILO – the jobs gap – which is shown to be an important complement to the unemployment rate. The indicator is particularly relevant to assess the difficulties that women face in finding a job and highlights job creation challenges in the developing world.
The jobs gap: Measuring labour underutilisation beyond unemployment Read More »
This guide provides guidance on implementing the ILO add-on module for own-use provision of services (OPS) in national labour force surveys. It is aimed at low- and middle-income countries and is designed to support NSOs to produce statistics on OPS when resource constraints or other considerations impede an independent time-use survey.
Own-use provision of services: Measurement guide Read More »
Discover a practical tool for measuring unpaid domestic and care work and find out how we can assist you in making time-use data collection and analysis faster, easier, and more accurate.
Measuring unpaid domestic and care work Read More »
New statistical standards will improve the measurement of the informal economy, providing more useful and complete data to address informality through targeted policies.
New standards, increased visibility: improving measurement of the informal economy Read More »
This resolution aims to set standards for statistics on the informal economy. It defines the statistical concepts of informal productive activities, the informal economy, the informal market economy and informal work and provides operational concepts, definitions and guidelines for the statistical measurement of its components.
Resolution concerning statistics on the informal economy Read More »
This companion guide provides guidance on the practical aspects of adapting ISCO-08 for national use or developing a national classification related to it.
The International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08) companion guide Read More »
