The Labour Market Indicators Library Network

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The Labour Market Indicators Library Network
Labour Market Information in selected Stability
Pact countries of South Eastern Europe Sub
regional Experts meeting Budapest 23 September
2003

• Isabelle Guillet
• Guilleti_at_ilo.org
• ILO Labour Market Indicators Trends and Evaluation

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Overview of the presentation

• Background
• LMIL Network
• Collaboration and coordination
• Flow of information
• Capacity building
• Main achievements

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Users of LMI
Background

• Policy makers
• Social partners
• Public (job seekers, enterprises)
• Researchers and analysts
• Regional and International organisations

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Problems with LMI
Background

• Availability
• Timeliness
• Accuracy
• Comparability

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Obstacles
Background

• Fragmentation
• Limited flow of information between units
• Lack of utilisation
• Limited and poor dissemination

Might occur at national, regional and
international levels
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Labour Market Indicators Library Network
Background

• Consolidating a knowledge-based network
• By providing appropriate products and technical
  expertise
• While increasing the availability and timeliness
  of labour market indicators

LMIL Network might inspire any institution and
player dealing with LMI
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Partners
Background

• ILO
• EMP/TRENDS (LMI Trends and Evaluation)
• STAT (Bureau of Statistics)
• The ILO Training Centre (Turin)
• Sub regional offices for Central Africa, Central
  America, Eastern Asia and Eastern Europe
• Paris21 Trust Fund
• Partnership in Statistics for Development in the
  21st Century (www.paris21.org)

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Strategy
Background

• Strengthening collaboration and coordination
• Enhancing flow of indicators and methodological
  information
• From national sources by the Headquarters
• From international sources by the subregional
  offices
• Support to technical assistance activities to
  build up national capacities

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Set of indicators
Collaboration and coordination

• Labour Force Participation Rate
• Employment-to-Population
• Status in employment
• Employment by sector
• Annual hours per person
• Unemployment
• Time-related underemployment
• Occupational wage and earnings
• Compensation costs
• Employment by size of enterprises
• Poverty

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Format of indicators
Collaboration and coordination
Employment-to-Population Ratio
Unemployment
Employment by Status
Labour Force Participation Rate
The format (structure) and methodological
requirements have been jointly worked out.
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Compilation of indicators
Collaboration and coordination
The LMIL database is the product of the combined
resources.
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Inputs from regions
Collaboration and coordination
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Dissemination
Collaboration and coordination
When using, or publishing LMI, each partner can
draw from the same source
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Basic Principles
Flow of information

• A cost-effective Internet-based system has been
  developed to
• Access
• Analyse
• Maintain
• Discuss
• Labour market indicators and methodological
  information

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Retrieval of indicators
Flow of information
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Display
Flow of information
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Analysis
Flow of information
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Updating
Flow of information

• Type of Source
• Scope of Coverage
• Classification Systems
• Reference Period
• Age Groups
• Sex
• Notes
• Bibliographic References

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LMIL Bulletin Board
Flow of information

• Vehicle for communication between Networks
  partners on
• indicators and methodological issues
• validation process and quality of information
• announcement on system upgrade

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Strengthening capacities
Strengthening capacities

• The LMIL Network is to assist ILO sub-regional
  offices in strengthening national and regional
  capacities to produce, assemble, analyse,
  disseminate LMI to better meet users needs.

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Rationale
Strengthening capacities
Collection
Dissemination
Policy Formulation
Analysis
Make better use of what exists
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Project components
Strengthening capacities

• Identifying and defining a set of regional
  indicators to be assembled and disseminated
• Organizing regional training workshops
• Developing information dissemination tools

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Expected outcomes
Strengthening capacities

• Increase in the availability and timeliness at
  national, regional and international levels
• Reinforced partnerships to produce and
  disseminate LMI
• Increase in the use of LMI

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Overall objective
Strengthening capacities

• To contribute to an enhanced understanding and
  accurate knowledge of labour markets that
  sustainably allows monitoring employment and
  related poverty trends
• PRSP
• National plans of statistics that include labour
  statistics

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Increase in availability (regions)
Main achievements
Labour Force Participation Rate Indicator
(1980-2000)
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Increase in availability (international)
Main achievements
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Increase in availability (international)
Main achievements
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Increase in availability (international)
Main achievements
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Increase in timeliness (international)
Main achievements
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SRO offices
Main achievements

• Improved attention to the issue of information
  gathering
• Improved communication with technical units at
  Headquarters
• Easy access to indicators and methodological
  information
• Improvement of quality, timeliness and
  availability of LMI
• Reduced burden through coordination and
  standardisation
• Improved database systems at the ILO office level

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Thank you for your attention

• Questions ?
• Comments ?