Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1994, published 81st ILC session (1994)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Netherlands (Ratification: 1990)

The Committee has noted the Government's first report. It would be grateful if the Government would provide further information on the following points.

Article 3 of the Convention. The Government indicates in its report that new statistics, including essential modifications of statistics, have to be submitted to the Central Commission for Statistics, in which employers and workers are represented. The Committee requests the Government to supply more detailed information on this Commission (such as its composition and responsibilities, and statutory text, if any, concerning its establishment).

It would also appreciate particular information on the manner in which employers' and workers' organizations were consulted with respect to the introduction in 1991 of the Survey of Employment and Wages.

Article 7. The Committee requests the Government to provide more information (both data and methodology) concerning the employment statistics derived from the Annual Survey on Employment and Wages (Jaarlijke onderzoek werkgelegenheid en lonen), including the methodological description of this Survey (in accordance with Article 6), which was published in 1992, according to the Government's report.

Article 14. The Committee requests the Government to provide further information regarding: (i) the availability of data relating to workdays lost by persons injured; and (ii) the status of statistics relating to occupational diseases, the reasons why such statistics are not compiled and any plans for their future development. It also asks the Government to indicate whether ILO standards and guidelines have been followed in designing or revising the concepts and methodology of statistics of occupational injuries, and the reasons for any departures from them (in accordance with Article 2). The Committee would appreciate it if the published statistics of occupational injuries (Statistiek der Bodrijfsongevallen) (in accordance with Article 5) as well as the methodological description of these statistics (in accordance with Article 6) would be communicated to the ILO.

Article 15. The Committee requests the Government to indicate whether methodological descriptions of statistics of strikes and lockouts are published by the competent national body (in accordance with Article 6).