The revised International Conference of Labour Statisticians’ (ICLS) 21st Guidelines on statistics of international labour mobility, international remote work and authorizations to work represent a significant step toward greater coherence across international statistical frameworks. A key driver of this revision was the need to align with the International Recommendations on Refugee Statistics (IRRS) and the International Recommendations on Statelessness Statistics (IROSS) which were explicitly reviewed and incorporated into the updated Guidelines. The revised Guidelines now reflect IRRS and IROSS guidance on the coverage and statistical treatment of refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, and other related groups within national programmes of labour migration statistics.
They also draw on EGRISS recommendations to better specify priority data items for the separate identification of these populations and to monitor their labour market integration alongside other migrants and non-migrants. This alignment strengthens the overall coherence of the international statistical system and supports countries in producing comparable, rights-based data on the labour dimensions of forced displacement and statelessness.
The updated Guidelines build on the 2018 framework Guidelines concerning Statistics of International Labour Migration.
