ILO statistical capacity building programme

1
ILO statistical capacity building programme And
activities in SPECA
Rafael Diez de Medina Chief Statistician Director
ILO Department of Statistics diez_at_ilo.org
2
ILO statistical capacity building programme

• Capacity building through technical assistance
  has been one of the Department of Statistics
  three major areas of activity
• standard setting
• data collection and dissemination
• capacity building.
• Activities coming under the heading of technical
  assistance are undertaken from the ILO
  headquarters as well as the ILO field offices and
  are geared towards enhancing and reinforcing the
  statistical infrastructure of central statistical
  offices, labour ministries and employers and
  workers organizations of the ILO member States.

3
ILO statistical capacity building programme

• Recent technical assistance has concentrated
  mainly on the following priority areas identified
  by member countries
• preparation for and refinement of labour-force
  surveys and surveys of household income and
  expenditure
• collection of wage and labour-cost statistics,
  statistics on migrant workers
• development of national classifications of
  occupations based on ISCO-08
• measurement of employment in the informal sector
• compilation of labour statistics using
  administrative records
• improvement in and development of labour-market
  information systems
• development of statistics on occupational
  injuries
• revision of consumer price indices and
• collection of child labour statistics.
•  

4
ILO statistical capacity building programme

• Technical assistance activities have been carried
  out mainly through
• technical advisory missions to countries, upon
  their request
• national and international seminars and
  workshops
• backstopping of donor-funded labour statistics
  projects
• training courses in labour statistics and
• dissemination of ILO recommendations on labour
  statistics, manuals, training materials and other
  technical documents.

5
International training programme

• The ILO continued to support national statistical
  offices and Ministries of Labour to better
  measure, collect, analyse and disseminate
  statistics through numerous training activities.
• Thus, beginning 2010, the Department of
  Statistics along with the ILO International
  Training Centre (ITC) in Turin (Italy) has put in
  place a regular annual training programme on
  labour force surveys and other data sources, and
  labour data analysis.
• Besides, it participated in the Masters programme
  in Applied Labour Economics for Development
  (MALED), which is run at the ITC-ILO as a Master
  of Science programme jointly by the Faculty of
  Economics of the University of Turin and as an
  Executive Masters by the Institut d'Etudes
  Politiques de Paris.

6
International training programme

• Training on decent work and labour statistics,
  informality, child labour, wages and hours,
  establishment surveys and MDG indicators,
  Consumer Price Index and ISCO-08, among other
  topics was carried out in the last three years,
  sometimes in partnership with other international
  organizations.
• Training workshops and technical assistance
  activities on measuring decent work (concepts and
  definitions, data collection, data processing and
  tabulation, data analysis) have been provided by
  the Department of Statistics with the supports of
  the MAP project and the project on Strengthening
  the capacity to devise and analyse decent work
  indicators, known as RECAP project

7
International training programme

• Since its inception in 2010, the programme is
  conducted in connexion with another ITC-ILO
  training programme, namely Data Collection,
  Analysis and Measurement of Decent Work
  Indicators, whose component on Labour Force
  Surveys is designed and carried out by the
  Department.
• The Department has also contributed a number of
  times with its expertise to the ITC programme
  regarding International Labour Migration and
  Statistics to provide information on the issues
  and problems involved in measuring and analysing
  the phenomenon, ranging from the highly
  technical, statistical perspective to a more
  general overview for non- statisticians.

8
Technical assistance advisory missions

• Between 2009-2013, the ILO carried out technical
  advisory missions to the following countries
• Azerbaijan
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Mongolia
• Russian Federation
• Tajikistan
• Some of the countries, due to the complexity of
  tasks, have been visited more than once.
• Also, recurrent advisory missions have been
  carried out to Moldova and Ukraine the CIS
  member-countries.

9
Country-specific support Azerbaijan

• The Department of Statistics has a long history
  of technical assistance to Azerbaijan, which
  started back in 1993.
• The most prominent output of the above is the
  first LFS conducted in 2003, followed by a Child
  Labour Survey.
• In 2012, the Departments Senior International
  Consultant carried out a comprehensive advisory
  mission to the AzSTAT and the Ministry of Labour
  with the objective to
• Study and analyse the existent LFS materials and
  situation in the country
• Develop a comprehensive work plan and concrete
  tasks for the constituents and social partners in
  Azerbaijan.
• Elaborate substantial comments on the LFS
  Questionnaire and review relevant instruments and
  to re-draft the LFS Questionnaire.

10
Country-specific support Kazakhstan

• The Department of Statistics also has a long
  history of technical assistance to Kazakhstan,
  which started back in 1995.
• The most prominent output of the above is
  recurrent technical assistance in
• Developing and testing a comprehensive module on
  measuring employment in the informal economy
• Training and assistance in developing and testing
  an LFS-based module on measuring decent work.

11
Country-specific support Kyrgyzstan

• The Department of Statistics also has been
  largely involved in a number of technical
  activities in Kyrgyzstan training of national
  specialists revision of the EAP module of the
  Integrated Household Budget and Labour Force
  Survey.
• The most recent technical assistance was provide
  in the
• Revision of the available labour market
  statistics and their sources to be used for the
  production of the DW indicators (2011).
• Assistance in the computation of the DWIs and
  preparation of relevant tables for a DW Profile
  of Kyrgyzstan (June 2013).
• In fact, this week our Senior Consultant is in
  Bishkek on the above advisory mission.

12
Country-specific support Mongolia

• On request of the Chairman of Statistics
  Mongolia, a Senior Statistician of the Department
  of Statistics carried out, in September 2011, the
  first advisory mission from ILO Geneva with the
  objective to
• Review the sources of data collection/data
  collection tools and classifications used.
• Discuss the problems, needs and challenges of the
  National Statistical Office in the aria of labour
  statistics.
• Based on the emission findings and further
  request, a follow-up highly technical advisory
  mission was carried out in December 2011 to
  compare and reconcile the 2010 Population Census
  results and the 2010 LFS estimates.
• The major objective of the above mission was to
  help Statistics Mongolia to prove the robustness
  of the LFS vis-à-vis the Prime Ministers Office.

13
Country-specific support Tajikistan

• The Department of Statistics began providing its
  technical assistance to Tajikistan during the
  dire times the country went through - during the
  Civil War. At that time already the Ministry of
  Labour and the State Statistical Committee were
  looking ahead and wanted to know how many jobs
  the country would need to rebuild the daily life
  of its citizens and its economy.
• The most recent technical assistance to
  Tajikistan provided by the ILO dates 2012-2013
  and covers the following areas
• 1. A detailed review of the present system of
  labour statistics system in RT. The mission
  resulted in the preparation of a comprehensive
  paper entitled Improvement and Development of a
  Labour Market Information System A Road map for
  the Republic of Tajikistan.

14
Country-specific support TajikistanCntd

• 2. To study and discuss a possible long-term
  support action plan to develop the basic labour
  statistics system of RT.
• 3.Pprovide training for senior data producers and
  data users of RT in
• The economic meaning of a job and its
  statistical measurement.
•  
• How to understand and apply the DW indicators for
  analytical purposes.
• 4. Participate in the launching event of the
  UNECE Global Assessment of the Statistical System
  of Tajikistan and make a comprehensive ILO
  presentation on the labour market statistics in
  Tajikistan and urgent need in capacity building.

15
Country-specific support Turkmenistan

• ILO was one the first international agencies
  which came to Turkmenistan with the fact-finding
  mission as far back as 1993 to review the labour
  statistics system. A number of concrete
  recommendations were made at that time.
• The second IO mission was carried out in 2003 to
  review the wage collection tools. Again a
  comprehensive set of recommendations were made.
• We would definitely like to continue our
  cooperation with that country and are ready to
  provide any advice needed.

16
Country-specific support Uzbekistan

• The fact-finding mission to Uzbekistan was
  undertaken in 1995 and concrete recommendations
  were made.
• One of the recommendations was to begin the
  preparation for a national Labour Force Survey.
• In 1997, the ILO carried out the second advisory
  mission to assist in drafting an LFS
  Questionnaire. We understand that our
  recommendations were fruitfully used.

17
Possible way forward

• In our view, the most advanced country among the
  SPECA countries in terms of labour statistics is
  Kazakhstan. Azerbaijan has also been doing quite
  well. However, the 2012 mission showed further
  work is need to improve the Azerbaijan LFS as
  well as its establishment survey to better
  capture labour cost.
• Given the current situation, we suggest the
  following
• To undertake programming missions to Kazakhstan,
  Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Based on the
  findings, the ILO will have a better
  understanding of their labour statistics systems
  and be able to make a consolidated proposal of
  the follow-up capacity building programme for all
  SPECA countries.

18
Possible way forward

• Currently, as we see it, the ILO capacity
  building programme can consists of the following
  components
• 1. Training in selected areas of labour
  statistics.
• 2. Harmonisation of the LFS tools based on the
  eventual recommendations of the forthcoming 19th
  ICLS.
• Upgrading of the existing National Classification
  of Occupations and National Classifications of
  Status in Employment on their latest
  international versions.
• Measurement of employment in the informal economy
  (employment in the informal sector and informal
  employment).

19
Possible way forward

• Support to data compilation on key variables on
  labour and decent work statistics (ILOSTAT)
• Establishment of harmonised data warehouses on
  labour statistics which will be comparable
  internationally

20
????????? ?? ????????!