ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean May 2014, Grenada

1. Support to the Development of Statistics in CARICOM:The Case of the ILO ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean May 2014, Grenada

2. What we will discuss • The ILO’s mandate on Labour Statistics • Work in the area of Census and Surveys (LFS, HIES, OWS and JFVS) • Statistics from administrative records Classifications • Data dissemination • Analysis • Future work

3. ILO’s mandate on Labour Statistics • The ILO in the UN system • ILO’s responsibility related to statistics • Convention/Recommendation on Labour Statistics: Employment, Labour in general but specifically: Industrial Relations, Occupational Safety and Health, Social security, Classifications • International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) • Tripartite approval  International Labour Conference • ILO’s work: regional/country programmes and participation in “global programmes”

4. Work in the area of Census and Surveys • The Population Census • ILO’s technical collaboration on surveys: Labour Force Survey (LFS), Household Income and Expenditure Surveys (HIES), Occupational Wage Surveys (OWS), Job Flow and Vacancy Surveys (JFVS) • Our focus in the region guided by the CLMIS programme  promotion of the LFS and the OWS/JFVS

5. The Labour Force Survey • Previous work: review/harmonisation of established LFS (Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago) • Standardise key concepts • Introduce measurement of informality and underemployment • Recent work: LFS in OECS • Standardised questionnaire across the OECS  builds on previous work (informality/underemployment)  tripartite consensus • Quality of data collection • Approach to data processing and definitions • Dissemination: standardised set of tables for regional use • Four OECS countries did the first round in 2013

6. Job Flows and Vacancy Survey • Establishment based survey (country basic survey programme) • Demand driven: constituency demands JFVS (employment services, TVET, investment, macro-economic) • Amongst regional experts more consensus on: • Concepts/definitions  Questionnaire • Sampling • Output/data dissemination • Joint CSO-DoL operation • Integrated into the CMLIS LabAdminMod …an “off-the-shelf-product” … to be piloted in SVG

7. Other Surveys • OWS • HIES (Caribbean CPA surveys=mix ILO/WB model) • Child Labour Survey (Belize/Guyana/Suriname) • School to Work Transition Survey (SWTS: Jamaica) • Informal Employment surveys (Trinidad and Tobago) • Technical assistance on request

8. Stats from Admin records • Critical Admin records for labour statistics: • MoL/DoL: PES, Lab. Inspec, Migration, IR • Employment programmes • Social Security/National Insurance • TVET • Challenge: Employment programmes and TVET • Approach considers specific challenges in using admin records for statistical purposes • Respect confidentiality of micro data sets … output is essential • Understand agency definitions/requirements • Mutual interest/benefits • Interagency collaboration

9. Stats from Admin records: DoL • MoL/DoL Admin Records: with the LabAdminMod countries can: • Computerise the MoL admin records: organisational efficiency; statistical processing; harmonisation of concepts/definitions • Standardise stats from admin records across the OECS • Build regional dissemination system • In five countries operational … the MoL/DoLcan run in stats in real time from the modules they have in use • Interagency collaboration based on policy coordination/shared statistics

10. Stats from Admin records: NIS • Focus efforts to use the NIS/SocSec records for statistical purposes …. • Issues of Strategy • Institutional issues • Currently Estimates available for: Employment; Labour Migration; Wages • Enhance quality and comparability:Harmonisation of concepts and definitions; Establish and maintain data set for statistical purposes; Consolidate estimates with other data sources; enhance coverage • Interagency collaboration

11. Classifications • The ISCO 2008 • The ICSE: International Classification of Status in Employment • Other (ICLS) classifications: • Industrial Relations • OSH related classifications • Social Security

12. Data dissemination • Dissemination strategy … bottom up: • Tripartite partners at the national an regional level • International • Printed vs soft copies • Web based CLMIS dissemination system • Standardised set indicators (based on the international requirements) and qualitative LMI • National ownership/interagency collaboration (CSO,MoL, NIS) • Micro data files … select group of stakeholders … institutional challenges

13. Analysis • Strategy … Specific capacity distinct but not divorced from data collection/processing • Capacity building? … Where …How …Maintain • Line ministries and specialised agencies • Statistical Office • Labour Market … what are the (major) labour market challenges … tied to policy design and evaluation • CLMIS strategy …. Labour market analysis immediately after the launch of the LMIS web site

14. Future work • Structure and formalise CARICOM-OECS-ILO collaboration on establishing a regional LMIS • Revised employment concepts … implications for LFS and National Accounts strategies • CSO-MoL-TVET collaboration on JFV Survey

15. Future work • Integrate NIS/SocSec in the Labour Statistcs System • Focus on producing the Employment MDG’s (also basic Decent Work indicators) • Labour market analysis immediately after the launch of the LMIS web site

16. Decent Work Thank you! The International Labour Organization ILO Decent Work Team and Country Office for the Caribbean www.ilocarib.org.tt