The Chief of the INEI set forth in the 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians in Geneva

The Chief of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), Mr. Dante Carhuavilca Bonett participated in the 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians, carried out in Geneva Switzerland. In this edition, the Conference centenary has been celebrated, which for the first time took place in October of 1923.

In this event, the Chief of the INEI thanked the International Labour Organization (ILO), for considering Peru in some pilot tests and cognitive tests, which have enable to know the INEI new techniques, the same techniques that have been applied in the surveys and census.

Likewise, Mr. Carhuavilca Bonett claimed that measure the informality in a country is always being a “challenging and defiant, very heterogeneous, very complex and highly variable task through the time, in the economic activity and in the opportunity”.

He also declared that in Peru has been undertaken several studies to try to identify which are the determining factors of the informality and unveiled a report that states that the informality answers to two factors: By obligation and by conviction or beliefs.

In the informal sector as an obligation are those that cannot get a job because they do not have necessary skills or abilities or having them, they face insufficient labour offers.

Regarding to the “conviction” as source of the informality, the chief of the INEI stated that the excessive labour regulations and the high non-salary costs makes that the informal does not or cannot pay them due to its low productivity. Reasons of cultural character are also included in this group.

In the conference in Geneva, the ILO members, will check the rules for the statistics about the informality, besides of checking concepts and relevant definitions to decent work, international labour migration, child labour, forced labour among other subjects.

During his participation, the chief of the INEI also stressed that in Peru, since April of 2021, has been conducting a new very big survey, “the country’s largest”. He also added that the indicators of labour market has been collecting in 132 thousand households, four times more than the households included in the annual surveys about poverty.

He also indicated that previously, the specialized survey in employment, just included the main city of Peru, but now includes 26 cities of the country. “We can now not only make the analysis of the formality, of the incomes, unemployment or underemployment in the main city of Peru, but all around the country”, he stated at the same time that he emphasized the support received from the ILO.