1. ILO Manual on earnings and other work-related income
Objectives
Harmonize existing international definitions
6 for income related to paid employment
2 for income related to self employment
Provide guidance to (mostly developing) countries on how to produce statistics on earnings and other work-related income
Through establishment surveys
Through household surveys
Using administrative registers
Collaborative project
ILO coordinates, writes some sections/chapters and edits the final product
Experts from National Statistical Offices contributions to sections, comments to other sections, etc.
Probably, no face to face meetings given costs and language limitations

2. Possible contributions from EU NSOs
Establishment surveys
Constructing a business register and keeping it up to date
Profiling, harmonizing administrative registers
Producing statistics for economic units not covered by the business register
Use by economic units of statistical software to report to NSOs
Harmonizing establishment surveys (if more than one is carried out)
Questionnaire design approaches to reduce response burden
Administrative registers
Harmonizing administrative registers with establishment survey data to produce statistics on earnings and other work-related income
Indicators
Occupational wage index or any index that corrects for the structure of the workforce (except industrial wage index)
Department of Statistics

3. Department of Statistics
Anybody interested?
If any of your organizations has found interesting solutions to the above points
Or has other issues that they have faced and have resolved in a creative way
And if you are interested in participating in the drafting of this Manual
Please contact me in person or by
The contributions will be in the form of
Writing one or more paragraphs that we will insert in the appropriate section of the manual
You would get the chance of seeing not only how your contributions fit in the whole, but of commenting on the whole document.
Adriana Mata Greenwood
Department of Statistics