Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

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

The Committee takes note of the Government’s report and the replies given to its previous direct request. The Committee invites the Government to supply in its next report further information on the following points.

1. Concepts, definitions and methodology. Article 2 of the Convention. Please indicate measures taken or envisaged with a view to adopting a classification of economic activities compatible with the General Industrial Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community (NACE) or the International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (ISIC).

2. Communication of statistics to the ILO. Article 5. Please ensure that the statistical series "Work and employment in the Republic of Belarus", as well as other labour statistics published are communicated regularly to the International Labour Office. Please provide labour data broken down by economic activity since 1994, either directly, or in reply to the forthcoming questionnaires of the Yearbook of Labour Statistics.

3. Active population, employment and unemployment. Article 7. Please indicate the measures taken or envisaged to conduct the survey on the economically active population.

4. Obligations not accepted. Article 16(3) and (4). The Committee notes with interest that surveys on labour costs in companies have been conducted since 1999 and have been progressively extended to various branches of activity which gives effect to Article 11 of the Convention concerning statistics on labour cost and could enable the Government to envisage accepting the obligations pursuant to this Article. The Committee further takes note of the information on consumer price indices and recalls that the Government in a previous report stated its intention to accept the obligations under Article 12. It also takes note of the information on statistics of household expenditure to which Article 13 of the Convention refers. Finally, the Committee invites the Government to continue to supply information on measures taken or envisaged to compile statistics on occupational injuries and diseases (Article 14) and industrial disputes (Article 15).