This site provides labor statistics for over 200 countries, operated by the International Labor Office database. Such data sets include unemployment data, wages, hours worked, occupational injuries, strikes, labor costs, and labor demographics.
Type of Material:
Collection
Recommended Uses:
Graduate labor courses, statistic courses
Technical Requirements:
Browser with Java enabled.
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Site is not designed specifically for educational use. It is a research tool housing a large collection of up-to-date information on labor issues across a large number of countries and regions.
Target Student Population:
Graduate or upper level undergraduates
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Strong knowledge of statistics (to understand data gathering approaches used and to interpret the data provided) and of labor issues and terminology.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
This site provides an extensive data set and also a nice glossary of terms.
Concerns:
The site is really not about conveying academic content.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Has unlimited potential as a complement for teaching statistics, labor courses, and other related subjects.
Concerns:
This is a site used mainly by researchers, but would need instructional lessons to make it work in a class.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The site is menu driven, making it fairly easy to search for data.
Concerns:
The site seems slow in responding.
Other Issues and Comments:
This resource would have very specialized uses and requires a lot of patience.
Creative Commons:
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