Yearbook of Labour Statistics 1997 56th edition

This weighty tome is the 56th issue of The Yearbook of Labour Statistics published by the International Labour Office and prepared by the Bureau of Statistics. The format is similar to previous years with 31 tables of labour statistics covering 192 countries with prefatory and explanatory matter in English, French and Spanish. Most of the tables cover the ten years from 1987 to 1996, although not every country can provide figures for all those years. The figures come mostly from the various national statistical services or are taken from official publications. The types of source from which the data is...