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

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Spain (Ratification: 1989)

The Committee notes the Government's second report and requests the Government to provide information on the following points.

Article 8 of the Convention. In the absence of reply to its previous request, the Committee again asks the Government to supply information on population censuses. It recalls that both labour force surveys and population censuses are statistical sources of the "structure and distribution of the economically active population" and that censuses are covered by Article 8 of the Convention. The Committee would also draw the attention of the Government to the obligations under Article 5 to communicate to the ILO, as soon as possible, the published statistics and the reference information on their publication, with regard to the statistics covered by each accepted Article of the Convention.

Article 9. The Committee notes with interest that a new survey on labour juncture (Encuesta de Coyuntura Laboral) is being conducted, which provides quarterly statistics of hours actually worked per quarter. It notes however that statistics of time rates of wages (by industry and/or by occupation) are not compiled. The Committee again requests the Government to state whether it intends to collect, compile and publish statistics of time rates of wages and, if not, to indicate the reasons.

Article 10. The Committee notes with interest that, although this Article was excluded from the acceptance of the obligations of the Convention, the Government is involved in the project of the European Structure of Earnings Survey to be conducted in 1996 with reference to 1995. It asks the Government to supply information on developments in this respect, in accordance with Article 16(4).

Article 11. Further to its previous request, the Committee notes with interest that the Government participated in the 1988 and 1992 European Community Labour Cost Surveys, which meet the requirements of this Article, which was excluded from the acceptance of the obligations of the Convention. It would again draw the Government's attention to the possibility of subsequently accepting the obligations in respect of this Article in pursuance of Article 16(3).