Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 82nd ILC session (1995)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Italy (Ratification: 1989)

The Committee notes the Government's second report, and in particular the information concerning the legislation that applies the provisions of the Convention as well as statistical data and methodological information on various subjects. It asks the Government to provide further information on the following points.

Article 8 of the Convention. Concerning the 1991 population census, the Committee notes that the methodological descriptions of the census have been received by the Office in accordance with Article 6. It again requests the Government to communicate the published data of this census to the Office and to indicate the title of the publication(s) in which the census results appear (Article 5).

Article 9. The Committee has noted that the National Statistical Institute (ISTAT) compiles and publishes indices of average wage rates, earnings and hours of work, but that the data in absolute figures seem to be absent. It again asks the Government to indicate whether it intends to compile, to publish and to communicate to the Office statistics of average wage rates or average earnings, and average hours actually worked, in absolute figures.

The Committee would also be grateful if the Government would indicate why statistics of average earnings and hours actually worked by branch of economic activity, derived from the quarterly Labour Force Survey conducted by the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance (MLPS), are no longer available.

Article 10. The Committee notes that: (i) the National Institute of Social Insurance (INPS) is engaged in the compilation of statistics on the distribution of workers according to levels of annual remuneration, on the basis of social security records; and (ii) ISTAT is involved in the project of the European Structure of Earnings Survey. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the actual development of these projects.

Article 11. In the absence of information in reply to the previous request as regards the European Community Labour Cost Survey, the Committee again requests the Government to communicate to the Office the published results of the survey, to indicate the title and reference number of the publication(s) in which the results appear (Article 5), and also to communicate to the Office the methodological information (Article 6).

Article 13. The Committee notes that Annexes 5 and 6 of the Government's first report (Information series - Family expenditure, and the quantitative distribution of incomes in Italy in surveys on family budgets), which the Government stated had been sent under separate cover, have been received. It again requests the Government to communicate, in accordance with Article 5, to the Office as soon as possible the published statistics covered by this Article.

Articles 14 and 15. The Committee would draw the Government's attention to the obligation under Article 5 to communicate to the ILO, as soon as possible, the published statistics compiled in pursuance of these Articles, and to the possibility of doing so by responding to the annual questionnaires for the publication of the Year Book of Labour Statistics.