Foreign Labor Statistics

Overview

The International Labor Comparisons (ILC) program provides international comparisons of hourly compensation costs; productivity and unit labor costs; labor force, employment and unemployment rates; and consumer prices. The comparisons relate primarily to the major industrial countries, but other countries are included in certain measures. Because statistical concepts and methods vary from country to country, international comparisons of statistical data can be misleading.

Additional facts from data.gov

Dataset Summary

  • Date Released: 1950
  • Date Updated: Annual
  • Time Period: Entire year
  • Data.gov Data Category Type: Raw Data Catalog
  • Frequency: Annual
  • Specialized Data Category Designation: Statistical

Contributing Agency Information

Miscellaneous Facts

  • Additional Metadata: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/time.series/in/in.txt

This is the original data as harvested from data.gov

Data Summary

  • Data Collection Instrument: http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/homtoc.htm
  • Data Dictionary/Variable List: http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outside.jsp?survey=in
  • Technical Documentation: http://www.bls.gov/fls/
  • Granularity: Australia, Austria Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
  • Unit of Analysis: International labor force, International compensation costs, International consumer price indexes, International GDP, International productivity
  • Geographic Coverage: Australia, Austria Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
  • Unit of Analysis: http://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/homtoc.htm