electricsheepafrica/africa-ilo-ilr-cbct-noc-rt-collective-bargaining-coverage-rate

Collective bargaining coverage rate (%) | Africa (ILOSTAT)

🌍 89 observations · 20 Africa countries · 2006–2020 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset contains 89 observations of Industrial relations data across 20 Africa countries, spanning 2006–2020, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

ILOSTAT is the ILO's central statistics database, the leading global source for labour statistics. It compiles indicators across employment, unemployment, wages, working time, child labour, informal economy, social protection, occupational injuries, and SDG decent work targets — drawing on national labour force surveys, household income surveys, establishment surveys, and administrative records. Coverage spans 200+ economies, with the ILO's Department of Statistics responsible for harmonisation.

• Source: ILOSTAT
• Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO)
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Industrial relations

Methodology

Data pulled directly from the ILOSTAT REST API at https://rplumber.ilo.org/data/indicator?id=ILR_CBCT_NOC_RT and filtered to Africa ISO3 country codes. ILOSTAT harmonises raw survey microdata using ICLS (International Conference of Labour Statisticians) definitions; sources are flagged in the source.label column for traceability.

Geographic coverage

20 Africa countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
GHA	13	2008	2020
SEN	11	2008	2019
ZAF	10	2010	2019
TUN	9	2010	2019
ZMB	5	2010	2020
MAR	5	2016	2020
ETH	5	2013	2019
BWA	5	2016	2020
NAM	5	2016	2020
TGO	4	2016	2019
UGA	4	2016	2019
RWA	3	2017	2019
MUS	2	2017	2018
MWI	2	2006	2013
EGY	1	2008	2008
...	5 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• ILR_CBCT_NOC_RT — Collective bargaining coverage rate (%)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
ref_area	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code	BWA
ref_area.label	string	Country name in English	Botswana
source	string	ILOSTAT source code (e.g. labour force survey)	XX:16046
source.label	string	Source name in English	OS - Estimations based on administrat…
indicator	string	ILOSTAT indicator code	ILR_CBCT_NOC_RT
indicator.label	string	Indicator name in English	Collective bargaining coverage rate (%)
time	int64	Observation year	2020
obs_value	float64	Observed indicator value (unit varies — see indicator definition)	34.5
note_indicator	string	—	T32:3476
note_indicator.label	string	—	Collective bargaining coverage: Adjus…
note_source	string	—	S9:66
note_source.label	string	—	Reference group coverage: Employees

Data quality & caveats

• Data is annual frequency. Some indicators also publish monthly or quarterly series — those are not included here.
• When an indicator has multiple sources for the same country×year, the ILO-selected 'best source' is used.
• Disaggregation columns (sex, classif1, classif2) are non-null only when the indicator publishes that breakdown.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-ilo-ilr-cbct-noc-rt-collective-bargaining-coverage-rate")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

kenya = df[df["ref_area"] == "KEN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator"] == "ILR_CBCT_NOC_RT"]
          .sort_values("time"))
sample.plot(x="time", y="obs_value", title="ILR_CBCT_NOC_RT")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator"] == "ILR_CBCT_NOC_RT"]
          .pivot_table(index="time", columns="ref_area", values="obs_value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{africa_ilo_ilr_cbct_noc_rt_collective_bargaining_coverage_rate_2020,
  title        = {Collective bargaining coverage rate (%) | Africa (ILOSTAT)},
  author       = {International Labour Organization (ILO)},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=ILR_CBCT_NOC_RT},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-ilo-ilr-cbct-noc-rt-collective-bargaining-coverage-rate}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © International Labour Organization (ILO). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-05-29 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=ILR_CBCT_NOC_RT