OSH Inspector Ratios Across 85 ILO Regions

Inspector ratios for occupational safety and health across 85 International Labour Organization regions, including Malaysia and Saskatchewan. The dataset supports a cross-regional trend analysis investigating the effectiveness and standardization of inspector capacity. It was published by Arjun Kathayat on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in inspector ratios across regional groups to assess alignment with ILO benchmarks.
• Model the relationship between inspector ratios and OSH performance using the 20+ multivariate regression analyses referenced.
• Compare baseline inspector ratio ranges (e.g., 0.87 to 1.5 for group 1) across different ILO regional classifications.
• Evaluate the stability of inspector ratios over time for specific regions like Saskatchewan (1.0 to 1.5).

Strengths

• Covers 85 ILO regions for broad cross-regional comparison.
• Analysis includes over 20 multivariate regression models with 95% confidence intervals.
• Data is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• Small dataset size (8.1 MB) suggests limited raw data or aggregated results only.
• Specific row counts, column names, and raw observation-level data are not provided.
• Temporal coverage and update frequency for the underlying secondary data are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Secondary annual datasets analyzed for the research, origin null.

Collection Method

Retrospective ecological research using descriptive statistics and regression analysis in IBM SPSS.

Time Range

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Freshness

Dataset metadata updated April 2026; underlying data recency is null.

Geography

85 International Labour Organization regions, including Malaysia and Saskatchewan.