Drawing on pilots in Costa Rica, Italy, the Republic of Korea, Türkiye and the United Republic of Tanzania, it distils practical lessons on concepts and definitions, identifying cooperative types, integrating cooperatives into business registers and surveys, and combining administrative and special-purpose collections.
This updated information guide is a practical tool for improving statistics on cooperatives. It turns the Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives into practical steps for countries. It explains core concepts and definitions (cooperative types, statistical units, work in and around cooperatives) and shows how to collect, tabulate and analyse comparable data.
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.
