ILO-Paris21 seminar on Capacity Building for labour statistics, Geneva, 3 Dec 2003 Capacity building for labour statistics : the EU system as a final target, adapted to each statistical system existing in developing countries Eurostat Rémi Bardon (F4) – Aloïs Van Bastelaer (D1)

Conceptual framework The UN millennium Declaration : 8 goals, included “develop a global partnership for development”, 18 targets, 48 indicators. * improvement of the destiny of the humanity. * even when including the Common Countries Assessment (CCA) indicators, there is no description of the labour market in its whole comprehensiveness. Starting point of the basic conceptual framework : labour demand-supply framework. * Labour demand (function of its price) : total human resources to produce an output * Labour supply (function of the wage rate) : total of employment.

Conceptual framework Base of the framework : the system of National Accounts : * The labour statistics are an important part of it, as well as the production, the income and the consumption. *The combination between GDP employment and compensation of employees to compare changes in productivity and remuneration.  necessity of consistency between the different sources related to the employment.

Conceptual framework : elaboration Step 1: Numbers of persons involved Numbers of hours worked  volume of work Step 2: Underemployment Step3: considering the heterogeneity of the labour market: Breakdown by occupation, product, region. Breakdown by individual characteristics, household composition. Step4: considering the price of labour: wages and salaries earned labour cost for the employer.

Conceptual framework Periodicity: - Step1: annual labour statistics - Step2: infra-annual statistics (quarter, month) in order to integrate the seasonal aspects. Coverage: - Nationwide coverage if possible. - To give the priority to the urban coverage when any financing limitations : labour market more complex.

High quality statistics for an informed society Dissemination: - Labour statistics to monitor the performance of the labour market as an effect of the government policies. - Labour statistics to provide information on the current and potential labour supply and economic activity. - Labour statistics to provide information for businesses, employers and workers representatives. - Labour statistics to be disseminated to the civil society (NGO’s and interest groups) and as inputs for researchers.

High quality statistics for an informed society To install and/or maintaining a dialogue between the producers and the users of data: - establishing a specific institution (cf. OEF in Mali), that aims at interfacing the producers (NSO) to the users of statistics (people’s representatives, civil society). - Establishing a statistical commission in charge of the co-ordination of the statistical production and analysis.

High quality statistics for an informed society To produce reliable and relevant statistics. To produce statistics on a regular base, at least annual.

Tools Traditional sources of information: - HH surveys, business surveys, administrative registers. - HH surveys: large number of variables and large coverage. - Labour Force Survey: employment and unemployment, other characteristics (underemployment, etc.). - NB : initial stage: comprehensive HH survey with items on income, health, other living conditions. - Business survey: collection of data related to production, labour input, number and wages and salaries of the employees, etc. (provided that there is an existing updated sampling frame).

Tools Use of specific tools for measuring the informal sector employment: - Mixed survey: specifically designed to identify and describe the informal employment in informal sector enterprises. - Labour input approach

Thank you - Merci Contact in Eurostat: Remi Bardon, Project manager, Asia region Eurostat – Unit F4 Tel: Fax: