Informal sector indicators
ILO informal sector indicators are being developed. See more here . Also now available, the Worker and Sector Profiles (PROFILES) database. The database focuses on groups of workers for which there is high interest but no internationally agreed statistical definitions. It currently covers the following groups of workers:
Work statistics
The ILO 19th ICLS (WORK) database provides data based on revised statistical standards. The standards have been changed to include factors such as unpaid labour. See the new definitions.Data sources are at https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/ Key: ILO = International Labour Organization ICLS = International Conference of Labour Statisticians
Our World in Data: Migration Explorer
Explore global data on immigration, refugees and asylum seekers in a new visual dashboard created by Our World in Data using statistics derived from United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) sources. It includes migration, refugee and asylum seeker categories. Generate tables graphs and data that can be downloaded for sets of countries or worldwide.
Latest from Policy Commons
The website which contains full text grey literature from NGOs and think-tanks is developing a feature to locate statistical tables within articles and export them as csv files. See one of the 150,000 tables an AI tool has found (registration required on the site). Many features are currently free. All topics are covered.
World Statistics Day
20th October was World Statistics day. The ILO raised concerns about gaps in terms of collection of data about gender and work If you are looking for accurate reliable data here are some free recmomendations: DataPortals.org datacatalogs.org– Comprehensive list of open data portals in the world maintained by Open Knowledge International. EU Data Includes data […]
dataUNODC (Drugs and Crime statistics)
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) new data portal makes its reliable global data on drugs and crime easier to access and visualise. It includes sections on types of crime (firearms, homicide, violence, sexual crime) criminal justice systems, prisons and drug related seizures.
ILO launches new Labour Statistics portal
A new website from the International Labour Organisation enables researchers to quickly access up-to-date international statistics on all aspects of labour, employment and the labour market worldwide. It includes country and thematic sections. Topics covered in women and work, migrant labour, the working poor. See the tools section for mapping and downloading tools. Other great […]
ONS sexual orientation data
Released this week from the UK Office of National Statistics, ONS sexual orientation data. This covers 2017 and aims to provide a new set of data on sexual orientation by region, sex, age, marital status, ethnicity and socio-economic classification. This enables users to consider where the most people who identify as LGBT live. Data on sexual […]
Eurostat regional yearbook 2018 released
Get free access to sub-national level data on Europe’s regions. The 216 page publication includes chapters on regional policies and European Commission priorities, as well as statistics on population, health, education and training, labour market, economy, structural business statistics, research and innovation, digital economy and society, tourism, transport and agriculture. It also includes two special […]
gesisDataSearch: a Data Discovery Index for the Social Sciences
Now in beta, a new tool which will enable researchers to quickly identify high quality social and economic datasets. It is described more fully in this article but basically it aims to use Data Documentation Initiative metadata to harvest records from a number of separate high-quality sources including the German GESIS Data Archive (https://www.gesis.org/en/services/data-analysis/), and the US […]
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