Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1992, published 79th ILC session (1992)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - San Marino (Ratification: 1988)

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its first report. It asks the Government to provide information on the following points:

Point I of the report form. Please give a list of the laws and regulations etc., which apply the provisions of the Convention.

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee notes the Government's indication in its report that the international standards and guidelines are complied with, and requests the Government to state, for each of the Articles of Part II of the Convention, the standards and guidelines followed and the reasons for any departures from them.

Article 3. The Committee notes the Government's statement that the tables in the official statistics bulletin have been jointly prepared and submitted to the representative organisations of employers and workers. Please supply further information on the manner in which the organisations of employers and workers were consulted in designing or revising the concepts, definitions and methodology used, for each of the Articles of Part II.

Article 6. The Committee asks the Government to indicate the steps taken or contemplated to produce, publish and communicate to the ILO methodological information on the statistics covered by the Convention.

Article 7. Please state the coverage of the current statistics of employment and unemployment, and the extent to which they reflect the economically active population. The Committee notes that these current statistics are published as "official estimates" and asks the Government to state what is meant by this expression and to indicate the source(s) of the statistics, in accordance with Article 5.

Article 8. The Committee notes that a population census was carried out on 30 November 1976. Please indicate, in accordance with Article 5, the name and other reference information concerning the publication of its results, and the dates of any earlier or planned future censuses.

Article 9, paragraph 1. Please indicate the source(s) of the current statistics of average earnings and hours of work and what is meant by "official estimates", in accordance with Article 5.

Article 9, paragraph 2. Please state whether statistics of time rates of wages and normal hours of work are compiled, and, if not, please state the reasons.

Article 10. The Government states in its report that the statistics covered by this Article appear annually in a table in the "Bulletin of Statistics". However, no such statistics appear to be available in the ILO. The Committee notes this information and requests the Government to communicate to the ILO the published statistics of wage structure and distribution in accordance with Article 5.

Article 11. The Committee notes that the statistics of compensation of employees are limited to manufacturing and asks the Government to supply information on steps taken or contemplated to extend the scope of these statistics to other important branches of economic activity, to indicate whether data on employment and hours of work consistent with those on compensation of employees are compiled, and to state the source(s) of the statistics of compensation of employees and what is meant by "official estimates" (Article 5).

Article 13. Please state whether statistics are compiled on household expenditure and household income.

Article 14, paragraph 1. The Committee notes the Government's indication in the report that the compilation and publication of statistics of occupational injuries which have been suspended since 1984 will be resumed in 1991, and requests the Government to state its coverage, the source of the data and the reference information of their publication.

Article 14, paragraph 2. Please state whether statistics are compiled on occupational diseases.

Article 15. Please provide information on the coverage of the statistics of industrial disputes and on the source of the statistics in accordance with Article 5, and on the organisation responsible for collecting, compiling and publishing the statistics of industrial disputes (point III of the report form).