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

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

The Committee takes note of the Government's first report and its subsequent report. It asks the Government to supply information on the following points:

Article 2 of the Convention. The Government states under point IV of the report form that in connection with the compilation of statistics in Danmarks Statistik the provisions of the Convention and ILO recommendations are taken into account and given a great weight, often at the cost of national interests, and also provides detailed information on the standards and guidelines followed in connection with the statistics covered by Articles 7 and 8. The Committee notes this information and requests the Government to indicate the standards that have been followed regarding the statistics covered by Articles 9 to 15, including the reasons for any departures from them, and to specify the difficulties encountered in taking the standards into consideration.

Article 9, paragraph 2. The Committee notes that the Government refers to statistics of "wages per time unit" prepared for parts of the labour market in the form of data on "hourly pay" or "monthly pay" and asks the Government to indicate whether they refer to wage rates or earnings.

Article 10. The Committee notes that no statistics of wage structure and distribution have been compiled since 1978 and asks the Government to supply information on steps taken or proposed to compile such statistics.

Article 14. The Committee notes the statistics of compensated occupational injuries and diseases compiled by the Danish National Board of Industrial Injuries and attached to the Government's report. It requests the Government to provide more detailed information on their coverage in terms of persons and in terms of types of injuries and diseases, and on their relation with the statistics on occupational injuries collected by the National Labour Inspection and supplied to the ILO for publication in the "Yearbook of Labour Statistics". In this connection, please also indicate whether there is any consultation of employers' or workers' organisations in designing or revising the concepts, definitions or methodology in accordance with Article 3 and the title and reference information on the principal publication in which the statistics appear (Article 5), and please communicate information on the methodology used (Article 6).

Article 17. The Committee notes, as regards the statistics referred to in Article 9, the Government's statement in its first report that the coverage of the wage statistics is limited to only parts of branches of economic activity except for manufacturing and building and construction, and requests the Government to state in future reports the extent to which it is proposed to extend the coverage.