Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1993, published 80th ILC session (1993)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - El Salvador (Ratification: 1987)

With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes the information supplied by the Government in its second report. It requests the Government to provide further information on the following points:

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee asks the Government to state, for each of the Articles of Part II of the Convention, the standards and guidelines followed and the reasons for any departures from them.

Article 3. The Committee requests the Government to state the measures taken or proposed to consult the organizations of employers and workers in designing or revising the concepts, definitions and methodology used in respect of the statistics covered by the Articles of Part II of the Convention.

Article 5. As regards the survey "Encuesta de Hogares de Propósitos Múltiples" giving effect to Articles 7, 8 and 13, the Committee requests the Government to communicate to the Office as soon as practicable, the published statistics compiled and the reference information concerning the publication(s) containing the results.

Article 6. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the steps taken or proposed to produce and publish methodological descriptions of the statistics covered by the Articles (except for Article 12) of Part II of the Convention, and to communicate them to the ILO (except for Article 15).

Article 8. The Committee would be grateful to the Government for any information concerning the population census provisionally scheduled for 1992.

Article 9. The Committee has noted that the coverage of the statistics of hours of work and wages is limited to wage-earners in manufacturing, and asks the Government to state the steps taken or contemplated to extend it to other important categories of workers and to other important branches of economic activity.

Articles 10 and 11. The Committee has noted that neither statistics of the structure and distribution of wages nor those of labour costs are compiled at present but that they could be compiled from the results of specific surveys. It asks the Government to indicate the measures taken or contemplated to compile these statistics.

Article 12. The Committee has noted that the consumer price index is computed using the weights which represent the consumption pattern for the period 1976-77. Please state whether there is a plan to review these weights.

Article 14. The Committee notes the Government's indication that data on work accidents are published annually, and asks the Government to provide more explicit information on the coverage of the statistics, in terms of persons and types of work accidents or injuries, and also on the methods of reporting. It would be grateful if the Government would state: (a) whether all public sector workers are excluded; (b) whether some sectors in the private sector are excluded from the "Regimen general de salud"; (c) what percentage of the total workforce is covered by the said "Regimen"; (d) whether information on fatal injuries is included or available separately; and (e) whether information on the number of workdays lost is available.

Article 17. The Committee has noted that the coverage of the statistics "Encuesta de Hogares de Propósitos Múltiples" giving effect to Articles 7, 8 and 13 is limited to certain geographical areas (to the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador or to urban areas, according to the year). Please state, in future reports, steps taken or proposed to extend it to other geographical areas.