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

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

The Committee notes the Government's first report, which provides information on the statistical activities under Act No. 4923/65 of December 1965 and on the data collected in the context of the Annual Report of Social Information (RAIS). It hopes that the next report will contain full information on all the Articles of Part II of the Convention in respect of which the Government accepted obligations (that is, including Articles 12 and 15). The Committee requests the Government to provide information, in particular, on the following points.

Article 2. The Committee requests the Government to indicate, for each of the accepted Articles of Part II of the Convention, whether the latest international standards and guidelines have been followed and the reasons for any departures from them. As regards Article 7, for example, it asks the Government to state whether the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) is used and, if so, to specify which (ISCO-68 or ISCO-88) is followed; and whether the Resolution on statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment, adopted by the 13th Internationl Conference of Labour Statisticians in 1982 is applied.

Article 3. The Committee requests the Government to indicate, for each of the accepted Articles of Part II, the manner in which the representative organizations of employers and workers are consulted when the concepts, definitions and methodology used are designed or revised.

Article 8. The Committee understands that population censuses have been carried out, and requests the Government (i) to indicate whether data classified according to status in employment are available and, if so, to provide them to the ILO, and (ii) to communicate to the ILO the results and methodology of the 1991 Population Census as soon as they become available.

Articles 7 and 8. According to information available in the Office, statistics covered by these Articles are compiled and published in the National Household Sample Survey ("Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicilios", or PNAD). The Committee requests the Government to communicate a copy of this survey to the Office as soon as practicable (in accordance with Articles 5 and 6).

Article 9. The Committee requests the Government to indicate any measures taken or envisaged to compile and publish current statistics of average hours of work which would be compatible with the statistics of average earnings derived from RAIS. If no such measures have been envisaged, please indicate the reasons.

Article 9, paragraph 2. The Committee notes that, although the data gathered on the basis of RAIS respond to the requirements of this provision, no information has been received in the ILO on the concept of "contractual wages". It therefore requests the Government to provide further information on the concepts used. Please also state whether statistics of normal hours of work are published.

Article 10. The Committee notes that the statistics derived from RAIS do not include those of wage structure (i.e. statistics of the composition and components of earnings) or of wage distribution (i.e. of the distribution of employees according to levels of earnings) and that the statistics of wage distribution derived from PNAD are not compatible with the data obtained from RAIS. It therefore requests the Government to indicate any measures taken or envisaged to compile and publish statistics of wage structure and of wage distribution which would be compatible with the existing statistics. If no measures have been envisaged, please indicate the reasons.

Articles 9 and 10. Noting that the RAIS report was last received in the Office four years after its publication, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would take measures to communicate it as soon as practicable in accordance with Article 5.

Article 15. When providing information on this Article in accordance with the report form as requested above, please include the title of the principal publication in which the statistics of strikes and lockouts appear, and a copy of the published statistics (Article 5), and information on the publication by the competent national body of a detailed methodological description of the statistics (Article 6). Please provide, in particular, methodological information on the change of series in 1989, for instance, the reasons for the change, and the resultant difference in "time not worked". What does it represent (duration of the dispute or total time not worked by all workers involved)? How is it calculated?

Article 16, paragraph 4. The Committee would draw the Government's attention to this provision which requests for the indication of law and practice concerning the Articles of Part II in respect of which obligations have not been accepted (i.e. Articles 11 and 14, in the case of Brazil). It would be grateful if the Government would provide, to the extent possible, any statistics compiled, for example, those on occupational injuries published in the "Work Accidents" ("Acidentes do trabalho") as well as information on their sources, methodology and publication.