Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1991, published 78th ILC session (1991)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Cyprus (Ratification: 1987)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government with its first report. The Committee asks the Government to provide additional information on the following points.

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee notes that, according to the Government, the standards and guidelines established under the auspices of the ILO have been followed. The Committee asks the Government to state the standards and guidelines followed for all the statistics referred to in each Article of Part II of the Convention.

Article 3. The Committee asks the Government to indicate the manner in which the organisations of employers and workers were consulted in designing or revising the concepts, definitions and methodology used for the purposes of giving effect to these provisions of the Convention.

Article 6. The Committee asks the Government to indicate whether the methodology used in collecting and compiling statistics in pursuance of this Convention has been established and published by the country.

Article 7. Please indicate the sources of information for statistics of the active population; to what extent statistics on employment and unemployment can be used together; and to what extent statistics on employment and unemployment are representative of the whole of the active population, stating the frequency of surveys on employment statistics (e.g. monthly or quarterly). Please indicate also whether statistics are compiled on visible underemployment.

Article 8. The Committee asks the Government to indicate the title and reference number of the main publication, in accordance with Article 5 and the report form, containing the information used as a basis, inter alia, to obtain the statistics referred to in this Article.

Article 10. Please indicate whether statistics are compiled on wage structure and distribution, and for which branches of economic activity.

Article 11. The Committee asks the Government to indicate, in accordance with the provisions of Article 5, the source of statistics on labour cost. It also asks the Government to indicate whether these statistics are consistent with data on employment and hours of work, and the title and reference number of the main publication containing the statistics.

Article 14, paragraph 1. Please indicate the coverage of the statistics referred to in this Article, particularly as regards the number of workers covered.

Article 14, paragraph 2. Please indicate, in accordance with the provisions of Article 5, the source of statistics of occupational diseases, the title and reference of the publication where these statistics are published and the frequency of their compilation.

Article 17. The Committee notes the Government's statement in its first report that the coverage of the statistics referred to in each Article of Part II of the Convention is confined only to the government controlled area of the country.