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3. Objectives, challenges and approaches
This section presents the key objectives, challenges and approaches
associated with each topic discussed in this paper to help support further
conceptual and methodological development.
Multi-party work relationships. The objective going forward should be to
develop more solid measurement approaches and carry out testing for all
three types of employees in MPWR (i.e., agency workers, employees providing
outsourced services and workers in employment promotion schemes) in order
to support development of data collection guidelines on measuring MPWR
that would include model questions. This effort should initially target labour
force surveys and subsequently other complementary data collection
instruments. The proposed measurement approaches contained in the room
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document prepared prior to the 20 ICLS should be reviewed to evaluate to
what extent they remain valid considering not only the modified definition of
MPWR adopted during the conference but also the need to separately identify
employees and dependent contractors among the dependent workers in
MPWR. Agency worker employees are already readily measured in different
country contexts which could allow for developing concrete testing proposals
in labour force surveys relatively quickly (with the support of willing countries).
Developing guidance on the measurement of employees providing
outsourced services and workers in employment promotion schemes will
require further review and analysis of national practices in order to develop
sound approaches and start testing in countries.
Moreover, developing approaches for measuring dependent contractors in
MPWR will need to be coordinated and integrated with the methods
development and testing of the dependent contractor group as a whole.
Following the development of initial data collection guidelines targeting
labour force surveys, a review of country practices used to measure such
workers using additional data sources including establishment surveys and
administrative records could be very useful to support countries to measure
and monitor decent work among workers in MPWR using different sources.
Future work should also seek to develop guidelines to help measure third-
party hiring enterprises and client enterprises engaged with workers in MPWR,
to help understand their incidence and characteristics.
Intermediated Platform work. The immediate objective is to define the
scope for statistical measurement as well as review and document existing
practices, measurement methods and tools at the national and international
level. This will involve conducting a thorough review at the global level
(including both developed and developing countries) to better understand the
types of IPW that exist across countries (including web-based work and
location- and app-based work; and microtask, macrotask and software
development platform workers), concepts and definitions used, and existing

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