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Resources for data producers to ensure an effective communication of statistics and methodologies, to make the most of the data produced and avoid misinterpretation, especially of breaks in series following the implementation of new standards in the LFS.
Example of a LFS News Release after implementation of latest standards adopted by International Conferences of Labour Statisticians
Informal volunteering: trends and characteristics
The report focuses on informal volunteering, the most widespread but least well understood form of volunteer work. It aims to address major evidence gaps by analysing who engages in informal volunteering, how, and under what conditions across diverse country contexts.
Technical working groups
Technical Working Groups (TWGs) support the development and implementation of international statistical standards. This page presents the active TWGs and their main work.
Labour Market Statistics and Analysis Academy
23 November–4 December 2026
Turin, Italy
The main objective of the Academy is to better equip and situate national and international stakeholders in the new SDG statistical monitoring system in the context of the main outcomes of the 20th and 21st ICLS recommendations.
Casting a light on dependent contractors: a new statistical and increasingly important category
While dependent contractors have long existed as a group of workers, they have only been made visible in official statistics recently.
Subsistence foodstuff producers: the importance of making their work visible
On World Food Safety Day, the ILO analyzes the work of subsistence foodstuff producers, as per improved international statistical standards.
The role of communication and dissemination in fulfilling the potential of gender-relevant work statistics
The 2013 ICLS resolution introduced a new forms-of-work framework and labour underutilization measures that significantly strengthened the gender relevance of labour statistics. This paper examines the rationale behind these standards, key challenges in their implementation, and the role of communication in maximizing their impact.
Visualization tool on the impact of latest statistical standards
This interactive visualization tool shows the impact of the latest statistical standards across a range of work-related topics, highlighting the increased analytical value of statistics.
Checklist for 19th ICLS standards application
This checklist provides a simple way of verifying that all conditions required to consider the standards adopted by the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) as fully applied in a given data collection activity are met.