Demande directe (CEACR) - adoptée 1995, publiée 83ème session CIT (1996)

Convention (n° 160) sur les statistiques du travail, 1985 - Inde (Ratification: 1992)

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

Article 8 of the Convention. The Committee notes that as to the latest 1991 census only general data have been made available to the ILO. It requests the Government to provide more detailed data (i.e. by sex, age group, industry, occupation, status in employment and level of education) in accordance with paragraph 2(2) of Recommendation No. 170, which should be taken into account by virtue of Article 2 of the Convention.

Article 16(4). The Committee notes the information supplied in respect of Articles 7 and 9 to 15. It notes with interest that, although obligations under these Articles have not been formally accepted, some of their requirements are already fulfilled. The Committee hopes that the Government will continue to supply any statistics compiled on the subjects covered by them, as well as particulars of their sources, methodology and publication. It is for the purpose of clarifying the extent to which effect is already given to them, that the Committee is making the following remarks on some of these Articles:

Article 7. Despite the limitation in terms of frequency (five-yearly instead of annual) and that only data on employment are classified according to industry and occupation, the Committee encourages the Government to send the National Sample Survey results to the ILO;

Article 9. The Committee requests the Government to explain the reasons why it considers that the statistics collected on average earnings in the unorganized sector through the Economic Census fall short of the requirements of the Convention. The existing statistics could be improved by: (i) harmonizing the coverage of employment, wages and hours data from establishment surveys and annual returns in the organized sector of the economy; (ii) extending the scope of the statistics of average hours and earnings to other important sectors and employment categories; (iii) extending the scope of the Occupational Wage Survey to a greater number of industries and occupations; and (iv) revising the weights and base used for compilation of the Wage Rate Index, which refer to 1963-64;

Articles 10 and 11. Data are collected through the Occupational Wage Survey and the Annual Survey of Industries, respectively although the scopes are limited. The Committee hopes that they will be extended to other sectors, establishments and occupations to be representative of the country as a whole;

Article 12. The Government is encouraged to revise the weights used for compiling the Consumer Price Indices for Agricultural Labourers which refer to 1956-57;

Article 15. The Government considers that the coverage of the statistics of industrial disputes is not sufficiently wide to accept the obligations under this Article. The Committee requests the Government to explain more precisely what are the limitations of the present system and in what respect and to what extent coverage is considered inadequate.