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 foundational resolution adopted in 2013 by the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians introduced a forms-of-work framework with five forms of work (own-use production work, employment, unpaid trainee work, volunteer work, and other work activities) and new measures of labour underutilization, greatly increasing the gender relevance and the analytical value of labour statistics. However, the full potential of these new standards is only fulfilled if countries implement them in their data collection activities via robust gender-sensitive methods and communicate effectively the results. This short paper summarizes the rationale and benefits the new standards, highlighting key methodological and operational issues pertaining to their implementation, with an emphasis on the standards’ impact in improving the gender relevance of work statistics. It also briefly discusses the role of effective communication and dissemination in fulfilling the potential of gender-relevant work statistics.
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.
Quick guide on the communication of results after implementation of latest standards on statistics of work, employment, and labour underutilization
A crucial aspect of the implementation of latest labour statistics standards is the effective communication of the results, to ensure getting the best out of the data. This guide aims to provide practical data visualization examples to convey clearly and intuitively the impact of methodological changes on key labour indicators following the implementation of the 19th ICLS resolution and avoid misinterpretation of the results.
Survey Questions for Collecting Data on Work Relationships and Informality
This document provides recommended survey questions for collecting data on work relationships (ICSE-18), informal employment, and the classification of economic units across three sectors: informal, formal, and household own-use production and community sector. (HOC). It incorporates the 20th ICLS resolution on work relationships (ICSE-18) and the 21st ICLS resolution on statistics for the informal economy.