Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 1995, published 82nd ILC session (1995)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Poland (Ratification: 1991)

The Committee notes the Government's first report and requests the Government to supply further information on the following points.

Point I of the report form. The Committee requests the Government to provide a list of laws and regulations that apply the provisions of the Convention, as well as copies, if they have not been sent to the ILO.

Article 2 of the Convention. The Committee requests the Government to specify which international standards and guidelines are taken into consideration in respect of the statistics covered by Articles 7 and 8. It also requests the Government to confirm whether the latest ILO standards and guidelines have been followed in designing and revising the concepts and methodology used in collecting and compiling the statistics covered by Article 14.

Article 3. The Committee notes the Government's reference to the Board for the Socio-economic Information Systems, in which trade unions and the Employers' Association are represented. Please supply more detailed information on this Board concerning its composition, and its role with regard to the programme of statistical studies and surveys of the Central Statistical Office, with particular reference to each of the statistics covered by Articles 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 and 15.

Article 14. In accordance with Article 6, the Committee requests the Government to communicate to the ILO detailed methodological descriptions of the statistics of occupational injuries and diseases, including the concepts and definitions used, the source, notification and reporting procedures, and the methods of data collection and compilation, and covering the recently revised reporting system and procedures.

Article 15. In accordance with Article 5 (under question (b) of the report form), the Committee requests the Government to provide the title and reference number of the statistical series of the national authorities in which statistics of industrial disputes are published.

Article 16(4). The Committee would be grateful to the Government if it would continue to supply information on statistics covered by Articles 9, 10 and 11, and in particular, indicate whether it is proposed to compile the statistics covered by these Articles, whether the annual survey of the use of working time of production workers has become half-yearly, and whether the labour cost survey planned for 1994 has actually been conducted, and if so, whether it also provides data on wage structure.