Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2010, Publicación: 100ª reunión CIT (2011)

Convenio sobre estadísticas del trabajo, 1985 (núm. 160) - Finlandia (Ratificación : 1987)

The Committee takes note of the Government’s report received on 23 September 2009 in reply to its previous comments. It also notes with interest the provision of web links to statistical information in relation to this Convention and asks the Government to supply additional information on the following points.

Article 8 of the Convention. According to the Government, the Population Census is nowadays based totally on register-data. Noting that the next population census was to be conducted in 2010, the Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide the ILO with relevant methodological and data information.

Article 9. Referring to its previous comments, the Committee notes that the Government shares the concern expressed in 1999 by the Central Organization of Finish Trade Unions (SAK) with regard to the lack of consistency in statistics of hours of work, which are published both by the Labour Force Survey and the annual Structure on Earnings Survey. According to the explanations supplied, the differences are partly caused by definitions linked to the specific national practise of shortening working time for those with a 40 hours working week, by granting specific days off instead of cutting regular weekly working time. In addition, in the Structure of Earnings Statistics – planned for making cross-sectional comparisons for hourly and monthly earnings – these days off have been taken into account when measuring monthly working time. The Government further refers to the Labour Force Survey, where weekly working time is defined as the normal working time for one week, for manual workers, usually 40 hours and expresses the view that the increased flexibility in working time arrangements would perhaps call for re-evaluation and specifying of international definitions applied. The Committee notes that according to information available at the ILO, current statistics of average earnings and hours of work cover all important categories of employees, both hourly and monthly paid, in all important branches of economic activity, in both private and public sectors.

The Committee notes with interest that statistics of time rates of wages and normal hours of work by occupation Article 9(2) are now compiled.

The Committee would be grateful if the Government would keep the ILO informed of any developments in the field of harmonized statistics on working time. It draws to the attention of the Government in this regard to 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 are defined in depth, at: www.ilo.org/global/What_we_do/Statistics/standards/resolutions/lang--en/
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Article 11. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would provide the ILO with timely updated statistics covered by this provision.

Article 14. Referring to its previous direct request, the Committee notes with interest the detailed references to a wide range of publications in which statistics of occupational injuries and diseases are presented. It also notes the availability of the newest statistics on the Statistics Finland website.