Capacity Building for Labour Statistics

ILO-PARIS21 Seminar

Geneva

3 December 2003

Presentation

•Reported problems

•Reflections

Reported problems

Bolivia:

- Discontinuity in management in the Ministry of Labour

- Little awareness of need of high quality labour statistics

- Budget cut leading to unability to collect data

Reported problems

•Mali

- Lack of trained staff

- Lack of technical expertise

- Outdated computer systems

Reported problems

•Thailand

- Statistics is manifold but few is of high quality

- Lack of coordinated plan for labour market data

Problems in brief

• Lack of trained staff

• Lack of financial resorces

• Insufficient infrastructure- Legislation- Organisation- Responsibilities

Reflections• Important to:- Identify

stakeholders/potential partners

- Build an infrastructure- Find trained staff/arrange

staff training- Establish user dialogues

Reflections• Income distribution

• Finding: There correlation between economic growth and reduction of poverty

- Thus: Important to study factors fostering growth

Reflections• Income distribution

- Researchers warn for ”elite separation”

- Thus: Important to study also the very highest income levels

Reflections

•Demand for labour

- Simple survey: Labour Market Tendency Survey

- Gives quick information on employers´ demand for educated labour

Reflections

•Statistical quality

- Customer/user satisfaction can be measured by means of survey on quality/service

- Customer satisfaction index

- Study on public confidence