General

Institutionalize a forum for technical discussion focusing on sharing countries’ experiences with a view to contributing to developing and strengthening national labour statistics systems in the region by harmonizing methodologies and developing new labour-market indicators.

Specific

1. Review the official tools used by the different countries to measure labour statistics, employment and labour underutilization according to new international recommendations, in order to provide an updated region-wide assessment in terms of the production of the main labour-market indicators and harmonization gaps with respect to the recommendations of the International Labour Organization (ILO).
2. Share member countries’ experiences and progress in the adoption of the new international recommendations of the nineteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians, with special emphasis on measuring the different forms of work.
3. Establish a regional position on updating the different international standards related to measuring labour statistics, including the recent discussion on the International Classification of Status in Employment, which will be revised during the twentieth International Conference of Labour Statisticians to be held in 2018.
4. Move forward with incorporating informality indicators into the national statistics systems of Latin American and Caribbean countries by harmonizing methodologies and sharing experiences.
5. Drive a discussion that would contribute to a more thorough analysis of countries’ current information needs in order to improve the monitoring of labour markets, and in which these countries can share their conceptual and methodological experience in specific topics such as labour migration, child labour, transition in and out of employment (measurement of gross flows), employment and income, women and young people in the labour market and other economic and social characteristics.
6. Agree on methodologies and questions that would provide the basic information needed to harmonize and compare traditional labour-market indicators, as well as the new indicators proposed by the ILO, and analyse the methodological implications for each country of adopting the global indicators for the Sustainable Development Goals under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Productos

• Documento de diagnóstico de las brechas de armonización estadística.
• Documento que sintetiza la posición regional con respecto a la actualización de la CISE-93. (Español e inglés).
• Documentos de diagnóstico elaborados por los países, sobre la revisión realizada al algoritmo de cálculo utilizado por OIT para la estimación de los indicadores de informalidad.
• Informes técnicos sobre la aplicación de pruebas cognitivas para validación de cuestionarios, en el marco del proyecto BPR-BID sobre de "Adaptación regional de nuevas directrices internacionales para la medición de las estadísticas del trabajo a través del diseño de cuestionarios y guías metodológicas.