100 years of the ILO also means 100 years of ILO’s labour statistics to support the work of countries and organizations around the world in improving labour markets, and of course, to inform its own work. Celebrating the ILO centenary is also celebrating progress in labour statistics.
100 statistics on the ILO and the labour market to celebrate the ILO centenary Read More »
Today, we celebrate International Volunteer Day to recognize the importance of efforts made by volunteers throughout the world to help those who are not able to help themselves, those excluded and left behind.
Counting the volunteers the world counts on Read More »
This model question is suitable for inclusion in a census form to capture participation in volunteer work, aligned with the latest standards adopted by the ICLS.
ILO Model question on volunteer work for Population and Housing Censuses Read More »
Work and employment may be used indistinctly in everyday language, but for the labour market they mean very different things. Employment is a very specific form of work. Other forms of work include own-use production work, volunteer work and unpaid trainee work.
Work and employment are not synonyms Read More »
An introduction to the conceptual frameworks for forms of work and labour force statistics, including labour underutilization.
Forms of work: An overview of the new statistical standards Read More »
See the latest international classifications for all forms of work and for employment according to type of authority and economic risk.
The ILO has launched efforts to develop guidance to promote accurate measurement of time use in different settings. A particular focus is the development of a data collection strategy centred on the attachment of a Time-Use module to the LFS. The successful design of such an approach offers many potential advantages given the topic overlap between the LFS and TUS, common target populations, high prevalence of LFS internationally, etc. An in-depth review of methods and country practises has been undertaken to inform the design of such a data collection strategy. This review has focussed in most depth on Light Time-Use Diary (LTUD) approaches to assess their suitability. This Brief highlights results, lessons learned and main challenges identified stemming from that review.
Exploring Light Time-Use approaches for measuring productive activities Read More »
This topic page on unpaid work provides access to statistical information including data, methods, publications and more.
Statistics on unpaid work Read More »
This report presents the results of a global review of national practices in measuring volunteer work, between 2007 and 2017, undertaken by the Statistics Department of the ILO. The review was conducted under the framework of the ILO-UN Volunteers (UNV) partnership established to promote and facilitate the regular measurement of volunteer work by the National Statistical Offices.
National practices in measuring volunteer work: A critical review Read More »
