Togo

Organization responsible for the statistics

Service des études et de la statistique, Caisse Nationale de la Sécurité Sociale (Studies and Statistics Service, National Social Security Fund).

Source

Insurance records of the Caisse Nationale de la Sécurité Sociale.

Coverage

Persons:

Paid employees.

Economic activities:

Mining and quarrying; manufacturing; electricity, gas and water supply; construction; trade; hotels and restaurants; transport, storage and communications; and community, social and personal service activities.

Geographic areas:

The whole country.

Establishments:

Not available.

Types of occupational accidents covered

The statistics cover reported injuries, including occupational diseases and commuting accidents.

Concepts and definitions

Not available.

Minimum period of absence from work: not available.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: not available.

Documentation

Series available:

The following tables are published:

Number of occupational injuries and percentage distribution by:

Bibliographic references:

The data are presented in the activity report of the Caisse Nationale de la Sécurité Sociale, which is prepared for its internal use.

Certain data are published in:

Direction de la Statistique: Annuaire statistique du Togo (annual).

Data published by ILO:

The following data, relating to reported occupational injuries (including occupational diseases and commuting accidents) according to major division of economic activity, were furnished regularly to the ILO until 1992 for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics: number of persons fatally injured; number of persons injured with lost workdays; total of these two groups; number of workdays lost by persons injured with lost workdays; rates of fatal injuries. The number of persons at risk (total number of paid employees) is also supplied and stored in the LABORSTA database.