Directions for national and international data collection on forced labour
- Document number
- 1867
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Directions for national and international data collection on forced labour
- Author/publisher
- Michaëlle De Cock, International Labour Organization (ILO)
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- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations,
- Keywords
- Summary
- The tools presented in the present report are designed to answer some of the specific needs regarding these three levels of observation and analysis. At the national level, where both individual follow-up and national analysis must take place, the proposed tools are: a) a national database to collect and store individual data on victims and perpetrators from the various organizations who are in contact with potential victims of forced labour. The same database will allow individual follow-up of the victims and national analysis. Analytical tools will provide reports on the national situation based on the cases collected. Results of this analysis can be used as inputs for qualitative research; and b) statistical methodologies to derive some quantitative estimates of specific forms of forced labour, including the forced labour outcomes of human trafficking. To understand the situation at global level, the proposed tools for the ILO are a) to continue its centralized database of all reported cases and estimates of forced labour published worldwide; b) statistical methodologies to derive global estimates from the national or regional estimates and c) a set of indicators on forced labour, built by using the results of the analysis of the national and international databases. All these tools may be developed by the ILO in collaboration with the countries where they will be tested and implemented.
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