Guidance and resources for the cooperative, social and solidarity economy
SSE: Statistics
Improving the quality and availability of statistics on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE) is essential to quantify the contribution of such entities to their members, users, communities, and both the economy and society at large. Despite their significant role, most countries currently lack reliable and comparable data on these important entities. The International Labour Organization (ILO), in collaboration with its constituents and various national and international partners, is actively working to address this data deficiency. It has notably developed guidelines concerning the measurement of cooperatives and a roadmap for developing Guidelines on statistics concerning the SSE.
26 October 2019
ILO’s Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation, 2002 (No. 193) states that national policies should “seek to improve national statistics on cooperatives with a view to the formulation and implementation of development policies”. To reaffirm this, the 19th Session of the International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) in 2013 included cooperatives in the Conference agenda for the first time in its history. The discussion converged towards the need for accurate, reliable, relevant and comparable statistics on the economic and social impact of cooperatives on the economies.
At the 19th ICLS, a Resolution concerning further work on statistics of cooperatives was adopted with a view to carry out further developmental work on the measurement of cooperatives and conduct pilot studies in a number of countries to test various measurement approaches on collecting data on cooperatives. In line with the Resolution, the ILO Department of Statistics, the Cooperatives Unit at the ILO Enterprises Department and the members of the Technical Working Group at Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) prepared the guidelines on statistics of cooperatives.
At the 20th ICLS, the Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives were adopted on 18th October 2018. The delegates from across regions as well as workers’ and employers’ delegates welcomed the draft guidelines and voted for their adoption at the ILO Headquarters in Geneva. The objective of these guidelines is to facilitate the development of a set of statistics on cooperatives that will provide an adequate information base for a wide range of descriptive, analytical and policy purposes related to cooperatives.
At the 21st ICLS, the progress on the testing of the Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives and a roadmap towards guidelines concerning statistics of the SSE were presented and discussed.
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