Central African Rep.

Organization responsible for the statistics

The statistics are collected, compiled and published by the Département du Travail.

Objectives and users

Not available.

Coverage

Strikes and lockouts

The statistics cover: Work stoppages initiated by employers and overtime bans are not included.

Minimum threshold Duration of at least 48 hours.

Economic activities

National defence, that is, the armed and paramilitary forces (police, fire brigade, customs, etc.) is not included, because this branch is responsible for ensuring the nation's safety and security. Any collective and concerted action by its members is considered as an attack on the nation's safety, and as a result, they do not have the right to strike.

Workers

Workers directly involved and workers indirectly involved. In addition to regular paid employees, the statistics cover temporary and seasonal workers, but not casual workers or unpaid family workers.

The number of workers involved does not include workers laid off, or workers absent on sick or annual leave or absent for any other reason. There is no part-time work in the country.

No particular occupational groups are excluded from the statistics.

Geographic areas

Whole country.

Types of data collected

Concepts and definitions

Strike

The voluntary and collective stopping of work decided by employees with a view to obtaining material and moral improvements.

Lockout

The closure of workshops or factories decided by one or more employers refusing to provide work for their employees in order to break a strike movement or resist demands.

Methods of measurement

Strikes and lockouts

The basic unit of measurement used to record a strike is the case of dispute and the economic unit (the establishment or enterprise).

A strike interrupted but later resumed, still due to the same case of dispute, is counted as a continuation of the same strike if the interruption does not exceed 48 hours.

Economic units involved

The economic unit is the establishment or enterprise. The establishment is defined as the economic unit for the production of goods and services.

Workers involved

The number of workers involved is counted as the maximum number of workers that took part during the course of the stoppage, even if some workers participated for only part of the duration.

Duration

Duration is measured in terms of workdays.

Time not worked

Total time not worked is measured in terms of workdays by ascertaining the total amount of time not worked on each day of the strike, and summing these totals. Time not worked is measured for workers directly involved and for workers indirectly involved. Overtime is not taken into account.

Classifications

Branch of economic activity

Data are classified by branch of economic activity using the International Standard Industrial Classification, 1968 (ISIC).

Occupational group

Data are classified by occupational group using the International Standard Classification Classification of Occupations (1968).

Reference period and periodicity

The statistics are compiled and published for periods of a quarter and a year. Information collected refers to strikes beginning during the particular reference period only.

Analytical measures

None.

Historical background of the series

Not available.

Documentation

Series available

Not available.

Bibliographic references

Bulletin statistique annuel du Travail.

Data published by the ILO

The number of strikes and lockouts, by economic activity.

Confidentiality

Not available.

International standards

Not available.

Methods of data collection

There is a legal obligation applying to one or other of the social partners concerned to report the occurrence of a strike to the Département du Travail, supplying the following information: the establishment concerned, the date and time the strike began, the number and category of workers involved, the cause of the strike and its location.