Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Canada (Ratification: 1995)

Article 9(1) of the Convention. The Committee notes with interest that statistics of average hourly and weekly earnings, as well as weekly hours paid for, continue to be compiled from the Survey of Employee Payrolls and Hours (SEPH). These series have been provided to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics. The latest data refer to 2008. Since January 1997, statistics of average weekly hours paid for, average hourly and weekly earnings classified by age and sex, and type of employment are compiled on a monthly basis from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). These are transmitted regularly by email from Statistics Canada to the ILO for publication in the ILO Bulletin of Labour Statistics and dissemination on the ILO web site. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to supply the series described.

Article 9(2). The Committee would be grateful if the Government would keep the ILO informed of any developments concerning statistics of time rates of wages and normal hours of work. The Committee draws to its attention the new international standards concerning the measurement of working time (see Resolution I, adopted by the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, whose larger number of concepts and measures seem to be better aligned to the national practice, accessible via http://www.ilo.org/
global/What_we_do/Statistics/standards/resolutions/lang--en/docName--WCMS_112455/index.htm).

Article 11. The Government’s reply to its previous comments with regard to the statistics required by this provision, referred to a pilot project undertaken by Statistics Canada in 2001 to develop a Labour Cost Index (LCI). It indicated that based on this pilot project’s results, it has decided not to continue because the proposed methodology would not provide data of acceptable quality. In 2005, work was conducted for implementing a LCI but work was halted for lack of resources. The Committee asks the Government to inform the ILO of any future development in this field and draws again the Government’s attention to the guidelines contained in paragraph 6 of Recommendation No. 170, with regard to the compilation of data on the level and composition of labour costs to meet long-terms needs.

Article 15. While noting that methodological information requested by Articles 5 and 6 concerning the statistics aimed at by this provision, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide more specific information regarding the dissemination of, and the methodology for, the annual statistics of industrial disputes.