PROMOTING DECENT WORK FOR ALL ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean May 2014, Grenada.

PROMOTING DECENT WORK FOR ALL

ILO Decent Work Teamand Office for the

CaribbeanMay 2014, Grenada

Support to the Development of Statistics in CARICOM:

The Case of the ILO


What we will discuss

•The ILO’s mandate on Labour Statistics

•Work in the area of Census and Surveys (LFS, HIES, OWS and JFVS)

•Statistics from administrative records Classifications

•Data dissemination•Analysis•Future work


ILO’s mandate on Labour Statistics

• The ILO in the UN system • ILO’s responsibility related to statistics• Convention/Recommendation on Labour Statistics:

Employment, Labour in general but specifically: Industrial Relations, Occupational Safety and Health, Social security, Classifications

• International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS)

• Tripartite approval International Labour Conference• ILO’s work: regional/country programmes and

participation in “global programmes”


Work in the area of Census and Surveys

• The Population Census• ILO’s technical collaboration on surveys: Labour

Force Survey (LFS), Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (HIES), Occupational Wage Surveys (OWS), Job Flow and Vacancy Surveys (JFVS)

• Our focus in the region guided by the CLMIS programme promotion of the LFS and the OWS/JFVS


The Labour Force Survey• Previous work: review/harmonisation of

established LFS (Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago)• Standardise key concepts• Introduce measurement of informality and

underemployment

• Recent work: LFS in OECS• Standardised questionnaire across the OECS builds on

previous work (informality/underemployment) tripartite consensus

• Quality of data collection• Approach to data processing and definitions• Dissemination: standardised set of tables for regional use

• Four OECS countries did the first round in 2013


Job Flows and Vacancy Survey• Establishment based survey (country basic survey programme)

• Demand driven: constituency demands JFVS (employment services, TVET, investment, macro-economic)

• Amongst regional experts more consensus on:• Concepts/definitions Questionnaire• Sampling• Output/data dissemination• Joint CSO-DoL operation

• Integrated into the CMLIS LabAdminMod …an “off-the-shelf-product” … to be piloted in SVG


Other Surveys

• OWS • HIES (Caribbean CPA surveys=mix ILO/WB

model)• Child Labour Survey

(Belize/Guyana/Suriname)• School to Work Transition Survey (SWTS:

Jamaica) • Informal Employment surveys (Trinidad and

Tobago) • Technical assistance on request


Stats from Admin records• Critical Admin records for labour statistics:

• MoL/DoL: PES, Lab. Inspec, Migration, IR• Employment programmes• Social Security/National Insurance• TVET

• Challenge: Employment programmes and TVET

• Approach considers specific challenges in using admin records for statistical purposes• Respect confidentiality of micro data sets … output is

essential• Understand agency definitions/requirements• Mutual interest/benefits

• Interagency collaboration


Stats from Admin records: DoL• MoL/DoL Admin Records: with the LabAdminMod countries can:• Computerise the MoL admin records: organisational

efficiency; statistical processing; harmonisation of concepts/definitions

• Standardise stats from admin records across the OECS• Build regional dissemination system

• In five countries operational … the MoL/DoL can run in stats in real time from the modules they have in use

• Interagency collaboration based on policy coordination/shared statistics


Stats from Admin records: NIS• Focus efforts to use the NIS/SocSec records for statistical purposes …. • Issues of Strategy• Institutional issues

• Currently Estimates available for: Employment; Labour Migration; Wages

• Enhance quality and comparability: Harmonisation of concepts and definitions; Establish and maintain data set for statistical purposes; Consolidate estimates with other data sources; enhance coverage

• Interagency collaboration


Classifications

• The ISCO 2008• The ICSE: International

Classification of Status in Employment

• Other (ICLS) classifications:• Industrial Relations • OSH related classifications • Social Security


Data dissemination

• Dissemination strategy … bottom up: • Tripartite partners at the national an regional level• International • Printed vs soft copies

• Web based CLMIS dissemination system• Standardised set indicators (based on the international

requirements) and qualitative LMI• National ownership/interagency collaboration (CSO,MoL,

NIS)

• Micro data files … select group of stakeholders … institutional challenges


Analysis

• Strategy … Specific capacity distinct but not divorced from data collection/processing

• Capacity building? … Where …How …Maintain• Line ministries and specialised agencies• Statistical Office

• Labour Market … what are the (major) labour market challenges … tied to policy design and evaluation

• CLMIS strategy …. Labour market analysis immediately after the launch of the LMIS web site


Future work

• Structure and formalise CARICOM-OECS-ILO collaboration on establishing a regional LMIS

• Revised employment concepts … implications for LFS and National Accounts strategies

• CSO-MoL-TVET collaboration on JFV Survey


Future work

• Integrate NIS/SocSec in the Labour Statistcs System

• Focus on producing the Employment MDG’s (also basic Decent Work indicators)

• Labour market analysis immediately after the launch of the LMIS web site


Decent Work

Thank you!

The International Labour Organization

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