Research Catalog

Title

Developments in international labour statistics / edited by Ralph Turvey ; prepared for the International Labour Office.

Publication

London ; New York : Pinter Publishers, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Turvey, Ralph.
• International Labour Office.

Description

xvii, 446 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Labor supply > Statistical methods
• Labor supply > Statistics
• Données statistiques
• Travail
• Statistiques de l'emploi
• Méthodes statistiques
• Labor supply
• Labor supply > Statistical methods
• Beschäftigung
• Statistik
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Arbeitskräftepotential
• Arbeit
• Arbeitsmarkt
• Internationaler Vergleich
• Methodologie
• Arbeidsmarktinformatie
• Internationale Arbeidsorganisatie
• Statistieken

Genre/Form

• Statistics
• Statistics.
• Statistiques.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Credits (note)

• Prepared for the International Labour Office.

Contents

• Introduction / R. Turvey -- A labour accounting system / R. Turvey and E. Hoffmann -- Compilation of balance sheets of labour resources in the USSR : methodological principles / V. Gouriev -- ILO-comparable annual employment and unemployment estimates : basic programme and application to countries with a centrally planned economy / I. Chernyshev -- Salient features of the new international standards on statistics of the economically active population / M.V.S. Rao and F. Mehran -- International standards on the measurement of economic activity, employment, unemployment and underemployment / R. Hussmanns -- The concept and boundary of economic activity for the measurement of the economically active population / M.T. Dupré, R. Hussmanns and E. Mehran.
• Female labour force participation in developing countries : a critique of current definitions and data collection methods / R. Anker -- Observation and recall method for collecting data on women's activities : an experiment in India / J.N. Tewari -- Accounting for time in labour force surveys / E. Hoffmann -- Incomplete data in labour force and related surveys / R. Platek -- Labour force flow statistics : an examination of objectives, collection methods and measurement issues / F. Mehran -- Statistics concerning the urban informal sector / K.M. Bashir -- The revised International Standard Classification of Occupations : a short presentation / E. Hoffmann -- Issues concerning a possible revision of the International Standard Classification of Status in employment / E. Hoffmann.
• Notes on the French "new classification of occupations and socio-occupational categories" / M. Scott -- Coding of occupation and industry : some experiences from Statistics Sweden / L. Lyberg -- Labour cost : an international comparison of concepts / K. Taswell -- Labour productivity / R. Turvey -- Establishment surveys of hours and earnings ; What kind of earnings indices are useful? ; Net earnings statistics ; Statistics of paid vacations / R. Turvey -- The measurement of inequality of basic needs attributes / F. Mehran -- Statistics of employees in the service sector, particularly the public sector / J. Stokkan -- National computer networking of employment statistics : the British example / A.R. Townsend, M.J. Blakemore and R. Nelson -- The redesign of a major establishment survey in the United States / T.J. Plewes.

ISBN

• 0861878183
• 9780861878185

LCCN

89039047

OCLC

• ocm20264071
• 20264071
• SCSB-1901615

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library