Development of Labor Statistics in the CIS region

The overall Project goal is to provide support to the CIS national statistical offices to strengthen their capacity in collection of regular labor statistical data on the basis of uniformed methodology; to enhance knowledge exchange at national and international levels and to upgrade CIS and ILO statistical databases on labor. Specific Project's objectives are: ' modernisation of current labor statistics systems in the CIS countries through enhancing capacity of their national statistical services and other agencies-producers of labor data by increasing the use of modern data collection tools, international methodology, definitions, standards and classifications; ' upgrading of currently conducted surveys such as household-based labor force surveys and/or enterprise-basedsurveys, population census; ' development of methodology for implementation of labor force surveys on a regular basis, includingata collection on labor migration and employment in informal sector of economy.