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PROGRAM

Day 1 Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Time	Contents
09:30 – 10:00	Registration
10:00 – 10:30	Opening Ceremony Opening Remarks Hyung jun Ahn, Commissioner, KOSTAT, Republic of Korea Welcoming Remarks Rafael Diez de Medina, Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Department, ILO Congratulatory Remarks Rachael Beaven, Director, Statistics Division, UNESCAP Mariana Kotzeva, Director General, Eurostat
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, Chief Statistician and Director, Statistics Department, ILO Misuk Kong, Director General, Social Statistics Bureau, KOSTAT, Republic of Korea Joon-Young Kim, Director, Employment Information Analysis Office, Korea Employment Information Service (KEIS), Republic of Korea Haoyi Chen, Coordinator, Inter-Secretariat Working Group on Household Surveys (ISWGHS), United Nations Statistics Division(UNSD) Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A (20 min) Ritash Sarna, Deputy Director, Statistics Department, ILO
12:15 – 14:00	Welcome Luncheon (Hyung jun Ahn, Commissioner, KOSTAT)
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, Statistical Standards and Methods Unit, ILO National experiences and perspectives (15 min each) Addressing Challenges in Survey Participation and Data Quality: UK Perspective Matt Hughes, Deputy Director, Social Survey Transformation, Office for National Statistics (ONS), United Kingdom Challenges and Responses in China’s Labour Force Survey Shan Wu, NBS, Deputy Director-General, Department of Population and Employment Statistics, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China Declining Response Rates Boosted by Demographic Changes in Japanese Labour Force Survey: Steady Measures to Recover Response Rates Shunichi Shimakita, Deputy Director, Labour Force Statistics Office, Statistics Bureau of Japan (SBJ), Japan Challenges of Data Collection Abdelfattah Mohammed Ali Khallaf, Head of the central Administration for Population statistics and Services, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), Egypt 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) Revised EU LFS – core social variables and modules approach to better satisfy user needs Statistics Poland experience Hanna Strzeklecka, Vice-president for S1ocial Statistics, Statistics Poland, Poland Continuous PNAD- Continuous National Household Sample Survey Denise Freire, Senior Technologist, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografía e Estatística (IBGE), Brazil Survey modularisation for the Australian Labour Force Survey Sean Crick, Program Manager, Labour Statistics Branch, Australian Bureau of Statistics (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) Integrating Labour Market Surveys With Statistical Registers: Experiences From Italy’s National Institute of Statistics Federica Pintaldi, Senior Researcher, Head of the Integrated labour, Education, and Training Systems division, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT), Italy Labor market indicators for Conflict-Affected and Internally Displaced populations in Colombia Cesar Mauricio Lopez, Technical Director for the Directorate of Methodology and Statistical Production, Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE), Colombia Integration of Administrative Data with the Türkiye LabourForce Survey Gözde Nur Dinarcan, Expert, Labour Force Statistics, Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT), Turkey Case Finland: Some Perspectives on the Use of Register Data in the LabourForce and Quality of Work Life Surveys Pertti Taskinen, Senior Statistician, Labour Force Survey and Work Statistics, 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) The Role of Employment Position Statistics using Administrative Data in Work Statistics Jae hyuk Choi, Director, Administrative Date Management Division, KOSTAT The Evolving Irish Data Ecosystem: Unleashing the Power of Data Tara Davis, Senior Statistician_Labour Market and Earnings, Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland Information of National Interest Managing changes in the survey of employment in Mexico Mauricio Rodriguez Abreu, General Director for Sociodemographic Statistics,Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)), Mexico Interoperability of Survey and Administrative data:“Our experience in operationalising the Botswana Labour Market Information System” Tlamelo Sekambo, Director, Department of Statistics Research Development & Innovation, Human Resource Development Council (HRDC), Botswana Discussion and Q&A (20 min)
12:10 – 14:00	Luncheon
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) AI Revolution in the Conduct of Labour Force Surveys Skyla Xin Xian Sim, Senior Researcher, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore ML-assisted ISCO-coding in the Danish LFS Daníel Freyr Gústafsson, Chief Advisor, Statistics Denmark, Denmark Research on AI application in coding and processing data in Labour Force Survey Bui Thi Thu Phuong, Statistician, Department of Population and Labour Statistics, National Statistics Office of Viet Nam, Viet Nam The Use of AI to Aid Survey Text Classification Colin Robert Beavan-Seymour, Principal Research Officer, 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) Diverse Communication Approaches for Korean Labour Force Survey: Focusing on Respondents, Data users and Policymakers Junhaeng Song, Director, Employment Statistics Division, KOSTAT Communicating labour market data: Effective use of outreach channels Eugenia Goh, Senior Assistant Director, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore The future of surveys for statistics on the world of work: Addressing the challenges through innovation Verónica Huaracán Riveros, Head of the Subdepartment of Labor Continuous Statistics, 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) Rafael Diez de Medina, Chief Statistician and Director of Statistics Department, ILO Sooyoung Kim, Director, International Cooperation Division, KOSTAT
18:00 –	Farewell dinner

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

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