Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 2002, publiée 91ème session CIT (2003)

The Committee notes the Government’s first report and the text of the Law of 23 December 1999 amending the Law on Statistics. It would be grateful if the Government could provide information on the following points.

Article 9, paragraph 2, of the Convention. According to this provision, where appropriate, statistics of time-rates of wages and normal hours of work must be compiled covering important occupations or groups of occupations in important branches of economic activity, in such a way as to be representative of the country as a whole. The Government is asked to explain why such statistics are not compiled, in accordance with the report form on the Convention.

Article 10. The Committee notes that, except for an interruption in 2000, annual statistics on the distribution of workers by level of wages and salaries have been compiled regularly since October 1994 in the context of the survey on earnings distribution published in October (DA-05). It also notes that statistics on monthly gross earnings, hours recommended and the number of workers by sex and occupation are compiled in the survey on wages and salaries by occupation, published every five years in October (DA-06). The Government is asked to indicate the measures envisaged for the compiling and publication, where appropriate, of statistics on the composition of remuneration and hours of work, in accordance with the guidelines given in Paragraph 5 of Recommendation No. 170, which supplements the Convention.

Article 11. The Committee notes that effect is given to this provision by the labour cost survey, which provides data on the level, structure and distribution of labour costs and is produced every four years. It would be grateful if the Government would ensure that all publications relating to the subjects dealt with in Articles 9, 10 and 11 are sent to the ILO regularly, in accordance with Article 5.

Article 12. Noting the information supplied by the Government on the measures taken to give effect to this provision, the Committee recalls that consumer price indices, including those relating to food, must be sent to the ILO on a regular basis.

Article 14. The Committee notes the information on the manner in which effect is given to this Article in part. It would be grateful if the Government could indicate whether self-employed workers are to be covered by the statistics of occupational injuries (paragraph 1) and to ensure that these statistics are sent to the ILO (paragraph 2).

Article 15. The Committee notes that the statistics of industrial disputes (strikes) compiled in 2000 comply in part with the requirements of the Convention. It would be grateful if the Government could provide information on: specific standards and guidelines taken into consideration in compiling these statistics (Article 2); the methods used in compiling the statistics, and the title of the publication, if any, containing the description of these methods (Article 6), including the types of strike covered; the type of data collected; the evaluation methods and classifications used; and the period of reference, the frequency and methods of data compilation.