Innovations in labour statistics

This perspective explains a number of innovations that will begin showing u p in national and international data in the next few years as a result of t he collective decisions taken by labour statisticians in late 1998. The sta tisticians tackled several difficult subjects, including how best to measur e total earnings from work (not just basic wages); and how to define and th en measure underemployment, in order to capture in labour statistics that c ategory of people who are neither fully employed in gainful work nor totall y unemployed.