Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Isle of Man

The Committee notes the Government’s report and the information it contains in response to its previous request. It asks the Government in its next report to provide additional information on the following points.

1. Time rates of wages and normal hours of work. Article 9, paragraph 2, of the Convention. The Committee notes that the compilation of statistics of time wage rates and normal hours of work is still at the planning stage. It asks the Government to indicate any measures taken in this regard.

2. Household income and expenditure. Article 13. The Committee asks the Government to indicate whether it envisages carrying out the survey of household income and expenditure at more frequent intervals. It draws the Government’s attention to the resolution concerning household income and revenue statistics adopted in 2003 by the Seventeenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians, which proposes that such a survey should be undertaken at intervals not exceeding five years.

3. Unaccepted obligations. Article 16. The Committee invites the Government to continue to provide information on the possibility of its accepting the obligations of Articles 7 and 11 of the Convention.