1. Noumea, New Caledonia, 3 to 7 December, 2018
Workshop on populating labour market indicators and standardising microdata
Noumea, New Caledonia,
3 to 7 December, 2018

2. Welcome to SPC

3. Round table introductions
Experience with labour market statistics
Experience using Stata
One thing you hope to get out of this Workshop
Something about yourself

4. Administrative matters

5. ILO opening remark

6. World Bank opening remark

7. Session 1: Setting the Scene

8. Partners
The collaboration between ILO and SPC falls under the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that was executed in October The MOU guides collaboration in:
- Analysis of data from existing surveys and censuses to feed into labour market information systems;
- Collection of labour market statistics, through surveys and censuses;
- Strengthening the capacity of PICs to collect labour market data to provide timely, credible and internationally comparable labour statistics; and
Compilation, documentation, and sharing of labour related microdata.
RMI HIES experiment – new labour market module. WB/ILO/SPC collaboration.

9. Improving Data Dissemination and Use in Pacific Island Countries

10. Acknowledgement
Project generously funded by the World Bank through the Trust Fund for Statistical Capacity Building.

11. Project: Improving Data Dissemination and Use in Pacific Island Countries
In response to call for increased dissemination of quality development data:
Curation for long-term preservation of Pacific development microdata
Metadata documentation to improve data useability
Publishing of metadata to increase data discoverability
Establishment of transparent legal and governance frameworks
Standardisation of microdata to facilitate longitudinal and spatial analysis
Identify optimal approaches to sampling in small island states
Build capacity of national statistical agencies in data documentation, standardisation and use, and in sampling methods

12. Three main components
Establishing the Pacific Data Library (
Harmonisation of census and survey datasets (ex-post standardisation)
New sampling strategy for PICTs

13. Component 1: Establishing the Pacific Data Library
Legal framework
Microdata inventory
Acquisition of data and metadata
Not transfer of ownership
Establishment of policy and protocols
data acquisition, evaluation, documentation, anonymization, cataloguing, dissemination, and preservation
Setting up IT infrastructure
Metadata documentation and dissemination
Anonymization and preparation of public use files
Citations database
User engagement
Capacity building
Memorandum of Understanding
Data Access Agreement
Terms of Use

14. Component 2: Ex post microdata standardisation
Workshops on standardisation
Labour market; disability; education; consumption
Identify common household and person variables for thematic analysis
Training in microdata standardisation and analysis
Creation of census subsets
Harmonisation guidelines
Household record
Person record
Labour market
Income
Education
Consumption
Health
ICT, etc.

15. Component 3: A new sampling strategy for small island states
Capacity building
Identifying optimal sample design that accommodates varying data user needs
HIES, DHS, MICS, disability, labour, agriculture
Sampling guidelines

16. Workshop on populating labour market indicators and standardising microdata

17. Objectives
Strengthen capacity (of PIC national statistical agencies and SPC) in the use of census and survey data to populate key labour market indicators, including SDGs;
Strengthen capacity in data processing, classification and analysis of labour market data;
Strengthen capacity to standardize microdata to publish derived labour market variables in ILOSTAT;
Coordinate with ILO to plan to draft a comprehensive set of harmonization guidelines, including conforming to ILOSTAT variable naming and structural conventions; and
Draft labour market brief/fact sheet to disseminate indicators for each participating PIC.

18. Outputs
Strengthened capacity of the Pacific region to populate labour market indicators using census and survey microdata;
Strengthened capacity of the Pacific region in data processing, classification and analysis of labour market data;
Improved collection of labour market data through data use feedback;
Population of indicators in ILOSTAT to reduce the gaps in the Pacific region;
Knowledge generated to produce guidelines to harmonize labour market data to rapidly populate labour market information systems; and
Dissemination of labour oriented knowledge products.

19. Agenda

20. Evening sessions (optional)
Tuesday at 5.30pm: “The benefits of microdata standardisation” - Facilitator: Mike L Wednesday at 5.30pm: “Metadata documentation and data discovery” - Facilitator: Scott and Olivier M Friday at 4.30pm: “SPC’s Christmas Party” - Facilitator: Santa Clause

21. Thank you (and Group Photo)