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

Convention concerning Statistics of Wages and Hours of Work, 1938 (No. 63) - Nicaragua (Ratification: 1981)

1. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government's report concerning the new monthly wages statistics system. It requests the Government to supply further information on this system, referring in particular to the following points:

(a) the organization responsible for the survey;

(b) the publication in which the results appear;

(c) the coverage of the survey (in particular, the types and sizes of establishments covered, workers covered, activities covered);

(d) whether it is a census of establishments or conducted on a sample basis; and, if the latter, the sample frame and sample size;

(e) the definition of earnings used.

2. The Committee also asks the Government to indicate the measures that have been taken or that it contemplates taking in order to compile statistics of average hours of work (as required in Part II of the Convention), and statistics of time rates of wages and normal hours of work (as required in Part III).