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The Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) is published every other year (with the 5th edition launched in September 2007). The KILM makes labour market information and analysis easily accessible and facilitates the comparison of key elements of national labour markets. It contains a core set of 20 labour market indicators that cover various facets of decent work deficits around the world. The KILM thereby is a wide-ranging and broadly-used reference tool that meets the ever-increasing demands for timely, accurate and accessible labour market information and analysis in a rapidly changing world of work.

The set of indicators is maintained in order to reflect changing labour market conditions and can be adjusted if necessary. This flexibility as well as extensive country coverage makes it a cornerstone for a diverse set of research activities and projects that take place within and outside the ILO. Besides this function, the KILM also serves as an educational tool for labour market analysis.

Users are guided on how to use the indicators for analysis, including in terms of comparability across countries and over time. In addition, a thematic analytical chapter on up-to-date labour market issues is provided in the KILM. These “key issues” in the past included an analysis of employment, income and productivity; female labour force participation and fertility; and Millennium Development Goals, decent work and vulnerable employment.

The KILM also provides the foundation for the ILO’s world and regional estimates for labour force, employment, employment by status, employment by sector, unemployment, labour productivity, employment elasticities and working poverty, which are used in the World Employment Report (WER), Global Employment Trends (GET) reports and most likely in the forthcoming Decent Work Report.

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