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The Committee notes that the Government’s report has not been received. It recalls that the Government indicated in its report received in 1998 that no new provisions which could affect the application of the Convention had been adopted, and therefore referred to the report sent in 1997. Under these circumstances, the Committee must once again draw the Government’s attention to its previous direct request, which read as follows:

The Committee has been pointing out for some years the need for the Government to supply statistics on the application of the Convention, in accordance with Part V of the report form approved by the Governing Body. In its report, the Government states that statistics concerning the application of the Convention are unavailable, due to the embryonic state of the statistics department of the Social Security Office. The Committee notes this information. The Committee is aware of the difficulties entailed in the collection of statistics; however, it would like to stress the importance of providing such information. A system for gathering statistics is an indispensable tool which provides the authorities with access to important information to assess the effectiveness of their social security scheme, and which helps to verify whether all the persons covered by legislation are actually covered in practice. The Committee therefore hopes that the Government will take the necessary measures to implement a statistical database, possibly with the technical assistance of the International Labour Office.