What this is
The Enterprise / Establishment Data Coverage Index ranks countries by how well their company-level labour statistics are covered in ILOSTAT. It is one of the Empstat suite of coverage indices, alongside the Labour Force Survey, Census and Administrative Data indices. Each covers a different family of data sources; this one covers statistics collected from establishments and enterprises rather than from households.
Which sources count
Every observation in ILOSTAT is tagged with a data source. This index counts all business-level sources — establishment and enterprise surveys, economic and establishment censuses, and register / social-security records — and excludes household and labour-force surveys, population censuses, and modelled or official estimates. In other words, it captures data reported by employers and administrative systems, not data collected from households.
Indicators
The headline set covers the statistics establishments and enterprises typically report: number of employees, employment and employees by economic activity, average monthly and hourly earnings, mean weekly hours actually worked, average hourly labour cost per employee, and employment by status in employment.
How the score works
Each country receives three sub-scores from 0 to 100:
- Coverage — the weighted share of the key indicators for which the country has at least one qualifying business-level datapoint within the coverage window.
- Frequency & regularity — how fast a cadence the country sustains (monthly > quarterly > annual) combined with how consistently it produces data over recent years.
- Recency — how up to date the most recent qualifying datapoint is, decaying with age.
The overall score is the weighted average of the three; the sliders on the main page let you change the weights, which are normalised automatically.
Countries and regions
Countries are grouped into the ILO's five broad regions — Africa, the Americas, the Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe and Central Asia — which drive the region filter. The grouping comes from a fixed country-to-region lookup, so any area ILOSTAT reports that isn't in that lookup appears as "Other." In practice "Other" is mostly non-sovereign dependent territories and special areas — for example Hong Kong and Macau, Puerto Rico and Guam, Réunion, Guadeloupe and Martinique, Bermuda, Aruba and Curaçao, the Channel Islands, and Kosovo and Taiwan. Region affects only filtering and grouping; it has no bearing on a country's score.
Data & licensing
Data: ILOSTAT (© ILO), licensed under CC BY 4.0 — adapted here by filtering to business-level sources and scoring. This is an independent index and is not published or endorsed by the ILO.