Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2011, published 101st ILC session (2012)

Labour Statistics Convention, 1985 (No. 160) - Mauritius (Ratification: 1994)

Articles 9(2) and 10 of the Convention. Compilation of statistics of time rates of wages and normal hours of work, and statistics of wage structure and distribution. With reference to its previous comments, the Committee notes with satisfaction that the Continuous Multi Purpose Household Survey (CMPHS), conducted on a continuous basis, has started to collect data disaggregated by sex. The Committee also notes with satisfaction that statistics on the distribution of the employed population by hours of work, industry and occupation and on earnings by industry, occupation and sex, were published in June 2010 in the annual Economic and Social Indicators on Labour Force, Employment and Unemployment based on the 2009 CMPHS data. Moreover, data on the percentage distribution of the employed population and self-employed workers by sex and by weekly hours of work are available in a summary report of the CMPHS disseminated through the website of the Mauritius Central Statistics office (CMO). The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to regularly provide information on the publication of these statistics.

The Committee draws the Government’s attention to Resolution I[1] concerning the measurement of working time adopted by the 18th International Conference of Labour Statisticians in November–December 2008, which defines new concepts and measures in this area of statistics.