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PROGRAM

Day 1 Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Time	Contents
09:30 – 10:00	Registration
10:00 – 10:30	Opening Ceremony Hyung jun Ahn, Commissioner, KOSTAT, Republic of Korea Rafael Diez de Medina, ILO Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Department, ILO
10:30 – 10:45	Group Photo
10:45 – 12:15	Keynote Panel Discussion The panel discussion will bring together diverse stakeholder perspectives on the future of surveys in official labour statistics, addressing rising challenges to their quality and sustainability and the growing demand for more data covering a wide range of topics. It will set the stage for the thematic sessions, raising main issues and offering perspectives and solutions. *Evolving data needs in the world of work and the future of surveys in official labour statistics* Rafael Diez de Medina, ILO Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Department, ILO Misuk Kong, Director General, Social Statistics Bureau, KOSTAT, Republic of Korea Joon-Young Kim, Head of Office, Office of employment information analysis, KEIS, Republic of Korea Haoyi Chen, Coordinator, ISWGHS, United Nations Statistics Division Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A (20 min) Ritash Sarna, Deputy Director, Statistics Department, ILO
12:15 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 -15:30	Session 1: Addressing challenges in survey participation and data quality Session 1 invites presentations that share approaches being implemented to address declining survey response rates and other survey data quality problems arising during data collection. Speakers are encouraged to share the main quality issues affecting the national labour force and related surveys, discuss the strategies (e.g., respondent-driven design), lessons learned, and implications for the future of surveys as a main source of official labour statistics. – Setting the scene (6 min) Kieran Walsh, Head, Standards and Methods Unit, Statistics Department, ILO National experiences and perspectives (15 min each) Matt Hughes, ONS, United Kingdom Shan Wu, NBS, China Shunichi Shimakita, SBJ, Japan Solly Molayi, Statistics South Africa, South Africa Discussion and Q&A (20 min)
15:30 – 15:40	Coffee Break
15:40 – 17:10	Session 2: Survey modularization and integration for work statistics Session 2 invites presentations focusing on approaches to address population and thematic data gaps and the need for integrated data across survey sources. Strategies include survey modularization and topic rotation, integrated survey systems, specialized surveys for special populations, and rolling surveys or micro-censuses for local area statistics. Highlight policy drivers, approach, prerequisites, achieved/expected improvements, and lessons learned. – Setting the scene (6 min) Elisa Benes, Head, Rights, Migration and Skills Statistics Unit, Statistics Department, ILO National experiences and perspectives (15 min each) Hanna GraŻyna Strzeklecka, Statistics Poland, Poland Denise Freire, IBGE, Brazil Abdelfattah Mohammed Ali Khallaf, CAPMAS, Egypt Sean Crick, ABS, Australia Discussion and Q&A (20 min)
17:10 – 17:30	Coffee Break
18:00	Welcome Reception

Day 2 Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Time	Contents
09:00 – 10:30	Session 3: Administrative and survey data integration for work statistics Session 3 invites presentations focusing on approaches to address survey data quality, cost-efficiency, and thematic data gaps through the combined use or integration of surveys with administrative data. Share experiences using admin data for sampling, improving topics like earnings and social protection coverage, calibrating survey results, and more. Highlight issues addressed, data source types, prerequisites, improvements, and lessons learned. Setting the scene (6 min) Elisa Benes, Head, Rights, Migration and Skills Statistics Unit, Statistics Department, ILO National experiences and perspectives (15 min each) Federica Pintaldi, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT), Italy Cesar Mauricio Lopez, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), Colombia Gözde Nur Dinarcan, Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT), Turkey Pertti Taskinen, Statistics Finland, Finland Discussion and Q&A (20 min)
10:30 – 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 – 12:10	Session 4: Data governance for survey and administrative data interoperability Focus on improving integration and interoperability of survey and administrative data (esp. labour force/household surveys). Share strategies for harmonising sources, building common standards/metadata frameworks, overcoming integration challenges, and case studies of successful official statistics practices. Setting the scene (6 min) Shutong Ding, Statistical Knowledge Management Officer, Statistics Department, ILO National experiences and perspectives (15 min each) Jae hyuk Choi, Statistics Korea (KOSTAT), Republic of Korea Tara Davis, Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland Mauricio Rodriguez Abreu, Instituto Nacional de Geografía y Estadística (INEGI), Mexico Tlamelo Sekambo, Human Resource Development Council (HRDC), Botswana Discussion and Q&A (20 min)
12:10 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Session 5: The role of AI in improving survey processes and outputs Explore how AI (ML, NLP, generative LLMs) can enhance survey design, collection, analysis, and reporting. Discuss efficiency/accuracy gains, text coding, imputation, reproducible pipelines, scaling/ethics/practicalities, and how AI may shape future methodologies—backed by innovative case studies and lessons learned. Setting the scene (6 min) Shutong Ding, Statistical Knowledge Management Officer, Statistics Department, ILO National experiences and perspectives (15 min each) Skyla Xin Xian Sim, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore Daníel Freyr Gústafsson, Statistics Denmark, Denmark Bui Thi Thu Phuong, National Statistics Office of Viet Nam, Viet Nam Colin Robert Beavan-Seymour, Office for National Statistics (ONS), United Kingdom Discussion and Q&A (20 min)
15:30 – 15:40	Coffee Break
15:40 – 17:10	Session 6: New communication products and approaches for work statistics Showcase innovative ways to communicate work-statistics findings across channels, products, and outreach to varied audiences. Emphasize targeted communication to improve interpretation, trust, survey participation, and data ownership, and to increase the practical use of statistics. Setting the scene (6 min) Kieran Walsh, Head, Standards and Methods Unit, Statistics Department, ILO National experiences and perspectives (15 min each) Junhaeng Song, Statistics Korea (KOSTAT), Republic of Korea Eugenia Goh, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore Verónica Huaracán Riveros, Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Chile Discussion and Q&A (20 min)
17:10 – 17:45	Concluding session Main conclusions and reflections towards the future (20 min) Ritash Sarna, Deputy Director, Statistics Department, ILO Closing Remarks (15 min) [TBD], KOSTAT Rafael Diez de Medina, ILO Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics Department
18:00 –	Farewell dinner

Day 3 Thursday, 25 September 2025
Time	Contents
10:00 – 18:00	Field Trip

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