ILO MANUAL IMPLEMENTATION RESULTS

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This page offers country experiences in implementing the ILO Manual and links to the questionnaires, guidance to interviewers, and lessons learned. We will continue to update this page with additional information and resources as they become available.
 

HUNGARY
The Hungarian Central Statistical Office added a volunteer supplement to their labour force survey in the third quarter of 2011. Hungary did not use a four-week reference period, as recommended in the ILO Manual, and instead asked respondents to identify the number of days they volunteered and the average number of minutes per day over a 12 month period.

Resources:
First implementation results
Questionnaire
Instructions for interviewers
Post-survey questionnaire for interviewers
Blog posts

ITALY
The Italian National Institute of Statistics will insert the module on volunteer work into its yearly “Aspects of Everyday Life” social survey, beginning in March 2013. 20,000 households, or approximately 54,000 individuals, will be interviewed in person. The ISTAT module was developed in partnership with CSVnet and the Fondazione Volontariato e Partecipazione in the project called MESV (Project for Measuring the Economic and Social Value of Volunteering), and CSV reference staff have been trained to support regional ISTAT offices in the training of interviewers and for coding of activities and organisations.

Resources:
Questionnaire
ISTAT presentation, from Madrid technical workshop, 28 March 2012
ISTAT speech, from Phase 1 wrap-up conference in Rome, 19 April 2012
ILO Manual in Italian
Blog posts
All documents related to implementation in Italy are also available here

MONTENEGRO

Resources:
ILO Manual in Montenegrin
Blog posts

POLAND
The Polish Central Statistical Office developed their volunteer survey during the early phases of the ILO Manual development. As a consequence, the structure of the Polish survey does not conform to the current structure recommended by the ILO Manual, though the results are still comparable. Initial results were released in December. Final results will be available in early 2012.

Resources:
Report from the September 2011 Warsaw meeting
Questionnaire in Polish | in English
Lessons learned (updated 2.2012)
Preliminary results
Blog posts