Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Jersey

The Committee notes the information supplied by the Government with its first report. It requests the Government to provide, with its next report, further information on the following points:

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to indicate, for each of the Articles of Part II, which specific ILO standards and guidelines have been followed and the reasons for any departures from them.

Article 3. The Committee requests the Government to indicate, for each of the Articles of Part II, the manner in which the employers' and the workers' organizations, if any, were consulted.

Article 5. The Committee requests the Government to communicate to the ILO, in respect of each of Articles 7 to 14, the published statistics and information concerning their publication.

Article 6. The Committee also requests the Government to communicate to the ILO, in respect of each of Articles 7 to 14, detailed descriptions of the sources, concepts, definitions and methodology used.

Articles 7 and 8. The Committee notes the data on registered unemployment and on the economically active population supplied with the report, and asks the Government to indicate: (i) the frequency of population censuses; (ii) the exact date of the last population census and (iii) whether more detailed statistics are available from the population censuses (e.g. by sex and age group, by industry, sex and status in employment).

Articles 9 to 11. The Committee notes that these Articles have been declared applicable with modification: i.e. the statistics concerned are not compiled on a comprehensive basis. It notes, however, that some information has been available through the wages index and the average earnings index. The Committee requests the Government to supply further details on these existing indices and information on any development towards the compilation of statistics on a comprehensive basis.

Article 14. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the statutory framework for collecting and compiling statistics of occupational injuries, the types of data collected and the coverage of the statistics.