This information guide provides practical guidance for the ILO’s Member States toward implementing the Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives adopted at the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians.
This publication brings together updated versions of four background studies produced for the ILO and COPAC in the process leading up to the adoption of the Guidelines concerning statistics of cooperatives at the 20th ICLS in October 2018. Together with the guidelines, it is intended to help statisticians to capture more information on key trends and challenges in the world of cooperatives.
This report presents a general overview of how cooperatives and key concepts are measured for statistical purposes. It is based on extant work and literature. The first part of the report reviews the most important statistical studies on cooperatives. Conceptual and methodological issues are identified concerning the identification and classification of cooperatives, including a discussion about core components and boundary areas. The report then proposes a conceptual framework for defining and classifying cooperatives for measurement purposes.
