The working poor… or how a job is no guarantee of decent living conditions
This issue of ILOSTAT’s Spotlight on work statistics focuses on employed people living in extreme poverty around the world. Using ILO’s global estimates of employment by economic class, it shows the great progress achieved during the last few decades in reducing working poverty in the world, and how more effort is still needed to completely eradicate it, particularly considering the strong regional disparities.
Industrial Relations Data (IRdata)
Concise description of concepts and definitions, uses, sources and limitations for indicators in the database Industrial Relations Data (IRdata), including collective bargaining and union membership.
Labour market information systems (LMIS)
Learn more about LMIS and what the ILO can offer in terms of tools, capacity building activities and technical assistance in labour statistics.
ILO Modelled Estimates (ILOEST database)
Discover the methods behind the ILO’s modelled estimates on labour force statistics (including the working poor), labour productivity, wage growth and labour migration.
SDMX tools
Tools based on the Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange (SDMX) standard for data producers to generate and report labour statistics.
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC)
ISIC is a standard classification of economic activities arranged so that entities can be classified according to the activity they carry out.
Education and Mismatch Indicators (EMI database)
Concise descriptions of concepts and definitions, uses, sources and limitations for employment (and employment distributions) by education.
Statistical standards and methods
Resources on methods and statistical standards, particularly for household surveys.
International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)
The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) is a statistical framework for organizing information on education.
International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)
ISCO is a statistical framework that organizes jobs into a clearly defined set of groups according to the tasks and duties undertaken in the job.