Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2000, published 89th ILC session (2001)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Norway (Ratification: 1987)

The Committee notes the Government’s report, and in particular the information concerning the application of Article 11 of the Convention. It asks the Government to provide further information on the following points.

 Articles 9 and 10 of the Convention.  The Committee notes with interest that since 1997 new wage structure statistics have been compiled and published annually. These statistics cover all important categories of employees and all important branches of economic activity. The new system provides for the compilation of statistics of average earnings and contractual hours of work as well as the structure and distribution of earnings and hours of work, and, where appropriate, wage rates and normal hours of work. Future plans include the incorporation of additional branches of economic activity still covered by administrative and other sources. The Committee asks the Government to communicate to the ILO the results of the annual wage structure statistics and, as soon as practicable, detailed information on the methodology applied to compile these statistics (in accordance with Articles 5 and 6).

Article 14.  The Committee notes that detailed methodological information was provided to the ILO as the basis for a description published in Sources and methods: Labour statistics, Volume 8 - Occupational injuries (ILO, Geneva, 1999) (in accordance with Article 6), and that, according to this information, the international standards were taken into account (Article 2) and the representative organizations of workers and employers were consulted (Article 3). It notes that separate data are not at present compiled on cases of injury with lost workdays, and that the figures of workdays lost available in connection with some cases of injury are considered not to be reliable by the Director of Labour Inspectorates. The Committee asks the Government to supply information on any measures contemplated to compile data on the number of cases of injury with lost workdays, and the corresponding number of workdays lost by cases of temporary incapacity, and to provide information regarding the publication, if any, in which a methodological description regarding the statistics appears (Article 6).