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5 5  The Fifteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians,
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7 -Recalling the resolution concerning an international standard classification according to industrial status adopted by the Seventh International Conference of Labour Statisticians (1949) and the conclusions regarding the International Classification according to Status reached by the Ninth International Conference of Labour Statisticians (1957),
7 +Recalling the resolution concerning an international standard classification according to industrial status adopted by the Seventh International Conference of Labour Statisticians (1949) and the conclusions regarding the International Classification according to Status reached by the Ninth
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9 +International Conference of Labour Statisticians (1957),
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9 9  Considering the supplementary recommendations for Housing and Population Censuses adopted by the twenty-fourth session of the United Nations Statistical Commission (1987),
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11 11  Considering the development in the world of work and recognizing the diversity in the work situation of workers, there is currently a need for adapting the technical guidelines provided by the International Classification of Status in Employment as a basis for strengthening national statistical programmes and enhancing international comparability of statistics,
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13 -Recognizing that, on the basis of experience gained in applying the present classification, further thought should be given to the conceptual basis of the ICSE and the relevance of the groups and subgroups proposed hereafter be verified in operational terms, and Noting that such work could result in improvements leading to a revision of the present resolution at the next International Conference of Labour Statisticians;
15 +Recognizing that, on the basis of experience gained in applying the present classification, further thought should be given to the conceptual basis of the ICSE and the relevance of the groups and subgroups proposed hereafter be verified in operational terms, and
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17 +Noting that such work could result in improvements leading to a revision of the present resolution at the next International Conference of Labour Statisticians;
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15 15  Adopts, this 28th day of January 1993, the following resolution:
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17 17  = I. The name and conceptual basis for the classification =
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23 23  3. The ICSE-93 classifies persons by virtue of their actual and potential relations with jobs according to the rules set out in section V.
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25 -= II. The ICSE-93 groups{{footnote}}For linguistic convenience the group titles and definitions have been formulated in a way which corresponds to the situation where each person holds only one job during the reference period. Rules for classifying persons with two or more jobs are given in section V.{{/footnote}} =
29 += II. The ICSE-93 groups[[(% class="wikiinternallink wikiinternallink" %)^^~[1~]^^>>path:#_ftn1]](%%) =
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27 27  4. The ICSE-93 consists of the following groups, which are defined in section III:
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82 82  = V. Classification of persons =
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84 -15Employed persons can be classified by status in employment according to the following rules:
88 +1. Employed persons can be classified by status in employment according to the following rules:
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90 +111. a person with only one classifiable job during the reference period should be classified to the status in employment group of that job;
91 +111. a person with two or more jobs during the reference period should be classified to the status in employment group of that set of equally classified jobs at which he/she has worked the longest hours, or which has provided the highest income from employment during that period (or which can be expected to provide the highest income from work carried out in that period, if payment can only be expected in the future).
92 +1. The ICSE-93 may be applicable, according to national practices and circumstances, to persons who have held a job, or who are seeking a job, regardless of their labour force status in the reference period. For the employed, it should apply to the job (or jobs) held in the reference period. For the unemployed, it may apply to either a job previously held, if any, or, according to national practices and circumstances, to the type of job which they are seeking.
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86 -* (a) a person with only one classifiable job during the reference period should be classified to the status in employment group of that job;
87 -* (b) a person with two or more jobs during the reference period should be classified to the status in employment group of that set of equally classified jobs at which he/she has worked the longest hours, or which has provided the highest income from employment during that period (or which can be expected to provide the highest income from work carried out in that period, if payment can only be expected in the future).
94 +VI. Data collection and international reporting
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89 -16. The ICSE-93 may be applicable, according to national practices and circumstances, to persons who have held a job, or who are seeking a job, regardless of their labour force status in the reference period. For the employed, it should apply to the job (or jobs) held in the reference period. For the unemployed, it may apply to either a job previously held, if any, or, according to national practices and circumstances, to the type of job which they are seeking.
96 +1. The data necessary to classify jobs or persons according to nationally significant status in employment groups should be collected in ways corresponding to the descriptive and analytical needs which the individual statistical programme serves, both with respect to precision of measurement and with respect to the number and type of groups separately identified. Using questionnaires with one question and a small set of pre-coded groups to be selected by the respondents, or by interviewers on the basis of the information provided by the respondents, may be less expensive but will normally result in less precise measurement of distribution of jobs or persons over relevant status in employment groups than the use of several questions with response alternatives designed to allow classification to the relevant groups at the processing stage. The Conference notes that the ILO Bureau of Statistics will provide guidelines on how to collect and process information about status in employment in statistical surveys and censuses.
97 +1. It is recommended that countries, as far as possible, design their data collection and processing procedures so that they will be able to give estimates for those of the following categories which are nationally significant:
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99 +111. employees;
100 +111. employers;
101 +111. own-account workers;
102 +111. members of producers' cooperatives;
103 +111. contributing family workers;
104 +111. workers not classifiable by status.
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91 -= VI. Data collection and international reporting =
106 +The ICSE-93 group into which ”owner-managers of incorporated enterprises" (cf. paragraph 14, item (a)) are classified should be indicated and separate information should be provided about them, whenever possible, to facilitate both labour market analysis and international comparisons. The countries are also asked to identify, for the users of their statistics, which of the separate groups reported contain the data for persons in any of the groups not separately reported.
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93 -17. The data necessary to classify jobs or persons according to nationally significant status in employment groups should be collected in ways corresponding to the descriptive and analytical needs which the individual statistical programme serves, both with respect to precision of measurement and with respect to the number and type of groups separately identified. Using questionnaires with one question and a small set of pre-coded groups to be selected by the respondents, or by interviewers on the basis of the information provided by the respondents, may be less expensive but will normally result in less precise measurement of distribution of jobs or persons over relevant status in employment groups than the use of several questions with response alternatives designed to allow classification to the relevant groups at the processing stage. The Conference notes that the ILO Bureau of Statistics will provide guidelines on how to collect and process information about status in employment in statistical surveys and censuses.
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95 -18. It is recommended that countries, as far as possible, design their data collection and processing procedures so that they will be able to give estimates for those of the following categories which are nationally significant:
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97 -1. employees;
98 -1. employers;
99 -1. own-account workers;
100 -1. members of producers' cooperatives;
101 -1. contributing family workers;
102 -1. workers not classifiable by status.
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104 -19. The ICSE-93 group into which ”owner-managers of incorporated enterprises" (cf. paragraph 14, item (a)) are classified should be indicated and separate information should be provided about them, whenever possible, to facilitate both labour market analysis and international comparisons. The countries are also asked to identify, for the users of their statistics, which of the separate groups reported contain the data for persons in any of the groups not separately reported.
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