Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2020, published 109th ILC session (2021)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Ukraine (Ratification: 1991)

Articles 7 and 8 of the Convention. Employment, unemployment and underemployment statistics. Statistics of the structure and distribution of the economically active population. The Committee notes the information provided by the Government in reply to its previous comments. It notes that the ILO Department of Statistics continues to receive statistics on the labour force, employment, unemployment, and time-related underemployment, from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine through the ILO’s annual questionnaire on labour statistics. The most recent data available is from 2019. The Committee notes that data on the economically active population derived from population censuses are not compiled and collected regularly. The Government indicates that the 2001 Population Census was the last census conducted. The next census will be carried out in 2020, pursuant to Decree No. 581-r on the carrying out of an All-Ukrainian, issued by the Cabinet of Ministers on 9 April 2008. No new information has been provided in the Government’s report with respect to Article 8 of the Convention. The Committee requests that the Government supply data and information on plans for conducting the 2020 population census and its results. It also reiterates its request that the Government provide information on any developments in relation to the implementation of the resolution concerning statistics of work, employment and labour underutilization (resolution I), adopted by the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (October 2013).

Article 9. Current statistics of average earnings and hours of work. Statistics of time rates of wages and normal hours of work. The Government reports that current statistics on average earnings and the average number of hours of work are provided on a monthly basis by State statistical monitoring in the form of the Survey of enterprises labour statistics. The Survey is a sample and covers enterprises, institutions and organizations with more than ten employees. The Committee notes that statistics on average monthly earnings from the Survey of enterprises on labour statistics and weekly hours actually worked from the Labour Force Survey are regularly transmitted to the Department of Statistics for dissemination on ILOSTAT. The latest data refer to 2019 and are available by economic activity, for both men and women combined as well as separately. The Committee notes the information provided in the Government’s report on the hourly salaries of full-time workers for different types of economic activities for all employment categories for the period 2017–2018 and the average monthly salary of workers by profession and professional group (the latest issue of which is from 2016). The Committee notes that the Government has not provided statistics on time rates of wages and normal hours of work in respect of Article 9; however, given the Government’s reference to hourly rates of pay, it is assumed that time rates of wages are in fact being collected. The Committee once again requests that the Government provide additional information on the methods of data collection and recent statistics on time rates of wages and normal hours of work (Article 9(2)), in conformity with Articles 5 and 6. It also once again requests that the Government indicate whether it envisages taking steps to carry out a survey to collect time rates of wages and normal hours of work covering important occupations or groups of occupations in important branches of economic activity as contemplated under Article 9(2).

Article 16. Acceptance of obligations. The Committee notes that the Government regularly communicates to the ILO Department of Statistics information concerning the topics covered by Articles 11–15 of the Convention, despite its not having accepted Part II of the Convention (Article 16(4)). The Committee once again invites the Government to consider the possibility of accepting the obligations under Articles 11–15, in accordance with Article 16(3). The Committee invites the Government to continue to provide updated information and statistics referred to under Articles 11–15 of the Convention.