Preface
F. Mehran
Notes on contributors
Introduction
I. Chernyshev
PART I: MAJOR CHALLENGES IN LABOUR STATISTICS
1. Labour force, employment and unemployment
2. Wage and labour cost
3. Classification of occupations
4. Measuring employment trends, labour shortages and skill gaps in transition countries
E. Hoffmann and I. Chernyshev
5. Revision of labour statistics systems in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States in the light of the ILO international recommendations
I. Chernyshev, V. Gouriev and I. Manykina
6. Some aspects of labour analysis in the CIS countries
I. Manykina
7. Towards a strategy of reform for systems of pay classification in countries in Central and Eastern Europe
J. Kux
8. Hungarian labour statistics in transition
A. Keleti
PART II: LABOUR FORCE, EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
9. International standards on the measurement of economic activity, employment, unemployment and underemployment
R. Hussmanns
10. Statistical study of employment and unemployment in the Republic of Belarus
K. Kiseleva
11. The Labour Force Survey in Czechoslovakia
B. Mejstrík and J. Kux
12. The Hungarian Labour Force Survey, 1992: Reference Manual
Hungarian Central Statistical Office
13. The Polish Labour Force Survey
J. Witkowski
14. The Labour Force Survey: a means of statistical investigation of the Romanian labour market
I. Vantu
15. The guidelines for the transition of Russian Federation statistics for the study of employment and unemployment through Labour Force Surveys
T. Gorbacheva
PART Ill: WAGE AND LABOUR COST
16. International standards of wage statistics: summary
R. Rassou
17. Establishment surveys: a review of national practices
M-T. Dupre
18. Wage-fixing policy: consequences of wage data gathering
F. Eyraud
19. Wage and labour cost statistics in Czechoslovakia
J. Kux
20. The Hungarian Labour Cost Survey
Hungarian Central Statistical Office
21. Wage statistics in the Republic of Lithuania
Department of Statistics of the Republic of Lithuania
22. The revised International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88)
E. Hoffmann and M. Scott
23. Mapping a national classification of occupations into ISCO-88: outline of a strategy
E. Hoffmann
24. Mapping the world of work: an international review of the use and gathering of occupational information
E. Hoffmann
25. The revision of the Hungarian system of classifying occupations
J. Foti and G Lazar
26. System of classification and description of occupations in the Soviet Union: structure, purpose and issues relating to improvements
S. Makovlev and V. Ouvarov
ANNEXES
1. ILO-comparable annual employment and unemployment estimates: updated results and methodology (No. 3) (Extract)
I. Chernyshev and S. Lawrence
2. Methodological description of the Labour Force Survey in the Russian Federation
3. Questionnaire used in a sample survey of the population on employment Labour Force Survey in the Russian Federation
4. Conceptual and technical outline of the Hungarian Labour Force Survey
5. Labour force sample survey for Czechoslovakia
6. Hungarian Labour Force Survey questionnaire
7. Conceptual outline of the planned Romanian Labour Force Survey
8. The ISC0-88 major groups