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ILO Labour Statistics (ILOSTAT): unemployment, wages, informality

io.github.sidneybissoli/ilo-mcp-server

Labour market data from the ILO (ILOSTAT) by country, year, sex and age, with provenance.

Uptime
100.0%
3 direct probes · 30d
Response
331ms
last probe
Tools
6
callable
Resources
3
readable
Prompts
3
available
Primary URL
https://ilo.sidneybissoli.com/mcp

Tools · 6

ilo_search_indicators

Search the ILOSTAT catalogue of ~1,200 indicator dataflows by keywords in the name or id (e.g. "unemployment rate sex age"). All terms must match (AND, case-insensitive), so start with 2–3 English wor…

ilo_get_indicator_metadata

Structure of one ILOSTAT dataflow: dimensions (in SDMX key order), their codelists, the time dimension, the source's default selection and the data vintage (last update at the ILO). Use before ilo_get…

ilo_list_dimension_values

Valid codes (id + label) of one dimension of an ILOSTAT dataflow — e.g. the country/area codes of REF_AREA (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 such as BRA, plus X-codes for aggregates such as X01 World) or the catego…

ilo_get_data

Statistical observations from one ILOSTAT dataflow, filtered by dimension codes (filters, e.g. {"REF_AREA": ["BRA","ARG"], "SEX": "SEX_T"}) and period (start_period/end_period, e.g. "2015"/"2024"). RE…

search

Searches the ILOSTAT labour statistics (≈1,200 SDMX dataflows: employment, unemployment, wages, working time, informality, SDG labour indicators) catalog and returns up to 10 matching documents as { i…

fetch

Returns the full document for an id obtained from `search`, as { id, title, text, url, metadata }: `text` is the readable content (Markdown) and `url` the canonical public page to cite. Companion of …

Resources · 3

ilostat-guide

How to query ILOSTAT with this server: tool workflow, stable code conventions (REF_AREA ISO3 and X-aggregates, SEX, AGE, FREQ, dataflow id suffixes), limits and reporting rules. Read once per session …

ilostat://guide
ilostat-key-dataflows

Verified dataflow ids for the most common indicators (unemployment, employment, participation, wages, working time, informality, NEET, SDG 8, productivity) — usable directly in ilo_get_data without se…

ilostat://reference/key-dataflows
ilostat-provenance

Meaning of every provenance field returned with the data (source_url, data_vintage, retrieved_at, notices, license, citation) and how to cite the ILO correctly.

ilostat://reference/provenance

Prompts · 3

ilo_country_labour_profile

Step-by-step workflow that assembles a labour-market profile of one country from ILOSTAT (unemployment, participation, employment ratio, informality, NEET, earnings, hours) with ILO citations.

ilo_compare_countries

Workflow that compares several countries (or regional aggregates) on one ILOSTAT indicator in a single data call, flagging modelled estimates versus reported data.

ilo_indicator_trend

Workflow that retrieves the time series of one ILOSTAT indicator for one country and describes the trend (first/last, peak/trough, breaks in series) with citations.

How to use

Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ilo_labour_statistics_(ilostat):_unemployment,_wages,_informality": {
      "url": "https://ilo.sidneybissoli.com/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}