Training Workshop on Work, Labour Force Statistics, and Labour Force Survey Tools

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Nepal is conducting the third Nepal Labour Force Survey (NLFS-III) in 2015. The NFLS-III aims at updating the employment and unemployment indicators of NLFS-II which was carried out in 2008 and producing a broader range of decent work indicators, and issues such as child labour, labour migration, school-to-work transition survey, occupational safety and health labour migration and informal employment. As a part of ILO’s support to strengthening the technical and institutional capacity of CBS to collect reliable, sex-disaggregated labour market statistics, the ILO Regional Office in Bangkok with the collaboration of the Central Bureau of Statistics of Nepal and the ILO Office in Kathmandu organized the Training Workshop for concerned CBS officials on 12 to 15 January 2015 in Kathmandu Nepal.