Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 1996, Publicación: 85ª reunión CIT (1997)

Convenio sobre estadísticas del trabajo, 1985 (núm. 160) - Azerbaiyán (Ratificación : 1992)

The Committee notes the Government's first report and requests the Government to supply further information on the following points.

Article 3 of the Convention. The Committee asks the Government to state, concerning Articles 7, 8 and 9 (in particular, with regard to the labour force survey programme mentioned under Article 7), the manner in which the representative organizations of employers and workers are consulted when the concepts, definitions and methodology used are designed or revised.

Article 7. The Committee requests the Government to indicate whether the latest standards are followed as required under Article 2 in conducting the labour force survey. The relevant standards include the resolutions on "Economically active population", "International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88)" and "International Classification by Status in Employment (ICSE-93)", adopted respectively by the 13th, 14th and 15th International Conferences of Labour Statisticians (ICLS). It also asks the Government to supply methodological information to the ILO, in accordance with Article 6, concerning the labour force survey as well as the employment and unemployment data derived from the other sources.

Article 8. The Committee draws the Government's attention to the obligations under this Article to compile statistics of the structure and distribution of the economically active population through a population census. It asks the Government to state whether a census is envisaged, and if so, to provide detailed information about it.

Article 9. (1) The national programme. The Committee notes the national programme of labour statistics attached to the report, which provides a workplan for the development or improvement of wages statistics. It asks the Government to indicate (in accordance with Article 3 of the Convention) the manner in which the representative organizations of employers and workers have been or will be consulted, in particular, when developing a programme of statistics of wages and hours of work (point 9 of the workplan) and when designing the concepts, definitions and methodology of the occupational survey (point 15).

(2) The Committee notes that statistics of average earnings are compiled in compliance with the basic requirements of Article 9, paragraph 1. It asks the Government to supply information on measures taken or envisaged: (i) to compile statistics of hours of work (hours actually worked or hours paid for) according to the international guidelines such as Recommendation No. 170, Paragraph 3(1) and (2); (ii) to extend the compilation of statistics of average earnings to the distinction by sex; (iii) to communicate the published statistics to the ILO as soon as practicable in accordance with Article 5; and (iv) to publish a detailed description of the concepts, definitions and methodology used, and to communicate them to the ILO in accordance with Article 6.

(3) The Committee notes that statistics of time rates of wages and normal hours of work, covered by Article 9, paragraph 2, do not seem to be compiled. It asks the Government to indicate whether it is envisaged to compile such statistics, and if it is not the case, to state the reasons. It notes however that, according to point 15 of the above-mentioned workplan, it is envisaged to conduct a sample survey of occupational wages and hours of work in October each year. The Committee asks the Government to indicate any new developments in this regard and to supply more information on the type of statistics to be derived from this survey (occupational wage rates or earnings, normal hours of work, hours actually worked or hours paid for).

(4) With reference to Article 2, according to which ILO standards and guidelines should be taken into consideration, the Committee recalls that traditionally the statistics compiled by Central and Eastern European countries, including Azerbaijan, have differed in concepts, methodology and classifications from similar data available in market economy countries. It asks the Government to indicate: (i) what steps have been taken, if any, in accordance with point 9 of the above workplan, to revise concepts, definitions and methods of statistics of wages and hours of work, in conformity with the ILO guidelines such as the resolution concerning an integrated system of wages statistics (adopted by the 12th ICLS in 1973); and (ii) whether the Government envisages to adapt the industrial classification to ISIC, Rev.2, 1968 or Rev.3, 1990.

Article 16, paragraph 4. The Committee notes with interest that the Government's report also contains information on the Articles which were not accepted at the time of ratification. It has in particular noted the following: that regarding Article 10, statistics on the structure of earnings are available, which gives partial effect to this Article; that, as to Article 11, the above-mentioned workplan provides for the development of the concept and definition of labour cost and the design of a labour cost survey, in 1994-96.

The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to indicate the law and practice on the statistics covered by Articles 10 to 15 and any development concerning the extent to which effect is given to these Articles, and to supply any available statistics and the relevant methodological information.