Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1998, published 87th ILC session (1999)

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

The Committee notes the Government's report and in particular information supplied in reply to its previous direct request regarding Article 3 of the Convention (in connection with Article 15). It notes that the results of the National Survey on the Urban Household Income and Expenditure (Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de Hogares Urbanos) which the Government's report states are sent, have not been received at the Office and asks the Government to supply the relevant document.

Article 5. The Committee would again draw the Government's attention to the obligation under this Article 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 also hopes that the Government will be able to produce and publish methodological descriptions of the statistics covered by the Convention and to communicate them to the ILO.

Article 8. Regarding the obligations of Articles 5 and 6, already mentioned above, the Committee asks the Government to send to the ILO data of the economically active population classified according to the existing international classifications (International Standard Classification of Occupations, ISCO-68 or ISCO-88; International Classification of Status in Employment, ICSE-1993; and International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, ISIC-Rev.2 or Rev.3) as required under Article 2, as well as detailed methodological information.

Articles 9, 10 and 11. The Committee notes that the Statistical Unit of the Ministry of Labour and Social Providence is being restructured and reorganized and that proposals have also been made to modernize and strengthen the Department of Statistics and Information (Departamento de Estadísticas e Informática). Within this context, it is envisaged to extend the coverage of statistics of average wages and hours of work to other economic activities (Article 9(1)) and to elaborate other types of statistics. The Committee recalls that the coverage of the statistics of hours of work and wages is limited to wage-earners in manufacturing. It again 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 (Article 9). Please also indicate the measures taken or contemplated to compile statistics of the structure and distribution of wages (Article 10) and labour cost (Article 11).

Article 13. The Committee requests the Government to indicate the particular standards and guidelines that have been taken into consideration in the development of these statistics (in accordance with Article 2); to indicate the representative organizations of employers and workers that are consulted when the concepts, definitions and methodology used are designed (in accordance with Article 3); to communicate the results of the 1990-91 survey to the ILO (as required under Article 5); and to communicate a detailed description of the sources, concepts, definition and methodology used in collecting and compiling household income and expenditure statistics (as required under Article 6).

Article 14. In the absence of a reply to its previous request, the Committee again asks the Government to indicate which specific standards or guidelines are followed with respect to the statistics covered by this Article, for example, the resolutions adopted by the International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) (in accordance with Article 2). It also asks the Government to indicate the manner in which representative organizations of employers and workers have been consulted in designing or revising the methodology used with respect to the statistics of occupational injuries and occupational diseases (in accordance with Article 3).

Regarding the obligation under Article 6 to produce, publish and communicate to the ILO detailed methodological information, please include the following information: (i) clarification as to the methods of reporting (by whom and to whom), with an explanation of the concepts of "reported accidents" and "compensated accidents" (casos subsidios); (ii) information in respect of fatal injuries (casos mortales de accidentes de trabajo) (to indicate whether this information is presently included in the statistics of work accidents, and, if so, to provide it separately); and (iii) information regarding the number of work-days "lost" or not worked as a result of work accidents and further information on subsidios por incapacidad temporal (subsidy for temporary incapacity), and particularly días de casos terminados (days of finished cases), and días subsidiados en el año (days subsidized in the year). Please also state whether it is intended to collect information on work-time lost with respect to the reported accidents, and on occupational diseases.

The Committee further asks the Government to indicate any measures taken or proposed to extend the scope of the statistics on work accidents to cover a larger part of the workforce, for instance, to include workers in the public sector or in autonomous institutions.

Article 15. Please provide information on the specific standards and guidelines followed (Article 2) with respect to the statistics covered by this Article.