International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE)

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Annex E: International Classification of Status in Employment

(ICSE)1

I. The name and conceptual basis for the classification

1. The classification of status in employment as shown in section II of this

resolution is designated the International Classification of Status in Employment

(ICSE-93). The group definitions are given in section III, while the statistical treatment

of particular groups is specified in section IV.

2. The ICSE classifies jobs held by persons at a point in time. A job is classified

with respect to the type of explicit or implicit contract of employment of the person

with other persons or organizations. The basic criteria used to define the groups of the

classification are the type of economic risk, an element of which is the strength of the

attachment between the person and the job, and the type of authority over

establishments and other workers which the job incumbents have or will have.

3. The ICSE-93 classifies persons by virtue of their actual and potential relations

with jobs according to the rules set out in section V.

II. The ICSE-93 groups2

4. The ICSE-93 consists of the following groups, which are defined in section III:

(1) employees;

among whom countries may need and be able to distinguish “employees

with stable contracts” (including “regular employees”);

(2) employers;

(3) own-account workers;

(4) members of producers’ cooperatives;

(5) contributing family workers;

(6) workers not classifiable by status.

III. Group definitions

5. The groups in the ICSE-93 are defined with reference to the distinction

between “paid employment” jobs on the one side and “self-employment” jobs on the

1 Excerpt from the resolution concerning the International Classification of Status in Employment

(ICSE). Fifteenth Intemational Conference of Labour Statisticians, Geneva, 19-28 January 1993.

2 For linguistic convenience the group titles and definitions have been formulated in a way which

corresponds to the situation where each person holds only one job during the reference period. Rules for

classifying persons with two or more jobs are given in section V.