No. 160 - Labour Statistics, 1985

Provisions

• This Convention ensures regular collection, compilation and publication of basic labour statistics, which shall be progressively expanded in accordance with its resources to cover the following subjects:
  • economically active population, employment, where relevant unemployment, and where possible visible underemployment;
  • structure and distribution of the economically active population, for detailed analysis and to serve as benchmark data;
  • average earnings and hours of work (hours actually worked or hours paid for) and, where appropriate, time rates of wages and normal hours of work;
  • wage structure and distribution;
  • labour cost;
  • consumer price indices;
  • household expenditure or, where appropriate, family expenditure and, where possible, household income or, where appropriate, family income;
  • occupational injuries and, as far as possible, occupational diseases; and
  • industrial disputes.
• Nothing in this Convention shall impose an obligation to publish or reveal data which could result in the disclosure in any way of information relating to an individual statistical unit, such as a person, a household, an establishment or an enterprise.
• Current statistics shall be compiled in such a way as to be representative of the country as a whole.

Administered by

Department of Labour

• Employment Relations Act 2000
• Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Act 2001

Statistics New Zealand

• Statistics Act 1975

How New Zealand implements it

• New Zealand collects and publishes statistics on the abovementioned subjects.
• The Statistics Act, under which Statistics New Zealand functions, provides for the protection of confidentiality. Information furnished to the Statistician under this Act shall only be used for statistical purposes.

This Convention is not applicable to Tokelau.

Ratified - 6 November 2001

Total Ratifications - 46

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