Mintrabajo - Croma API

The labour market statistics of Guatemala’s Ministerio de Trabajo y Previsión Social (Dirección de Estadística Laboral): the indicators of the INE household surveys (ENEI, ENCOVI and the quarterly ENEIC) for the country and by sex, area, age, ethnic group, activity and occupational category; the contributing members of the IGSS by department, activity and month since 2017; the nominal and real minimum wage since 1995 for both economic circumscriptions; the child labour risk model (MIRTI) for all 340 municipalities; and every report, bulletin and data file the Ministry publishes, kept by Croma. Every series is organized and ready to query: the unemployment rate of women in each survey round, the formal employment of a department month by month, or the minimum wage a maquila paid in 2019, each in one fast call.

The whole source, organized and ready to query: every endpoint on this page answers in milliseconds. Every response carries as_of: how current the data is. How datasets work.

Labour market indicators

POST /gt/mintrabajo-gt/labour-indicators/v1 Dataset The survey indicators, filtered by survey, breakdown and years. Newest round first; within a round, total then each breakdown’s categories.

Field	Type	Notes
`survey`	enum	Optional: `ENEI` (2012-2022), `ENEIC` (quarterly since 2024-T4) or `ENCOVI` (2023).
`breakdown`	enum	Optional: `total`, `sex`, `area` (metropolitan, other urban, rural), `age_group`, `ethnicity`, `economic_activity` or `occupational_category`. Activity and category rows describe the employed.
`year_from`	integer	Optional first year, inclusive. `0` sets no bound. Default `0`.
`year_to`	integer	Optional last year, inclusive. `0` sets no bound. Default `0`.
`page`	integer	Optional. 1-based page. Default `1`.
`per_page`	integer	Optional. Results per page, 1-500. Default `100`.

curl https://api.croma.run/gt/mintrabajo-gt/labour-indicators/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "breakdown": "sex", "year_from": 2024 }'

Returns as_of (how current the data is), the applied filters, total and total_is_exact, page, per_page, total_pages, count and results[].

IGSS contributors

POST /gt/mintrabajo-gt/igss-contributors/v1 Dataset Contributing members by department, activity and month. Newest month first.

Field	Type	Notes
`department_code`	string	Optional two-digit department code, `01` (Guatemala) to `22` (Jutiapa), in the order the INE numbers them.
`activity`	enum	Optional: `agricultural`, `export_and_maquila`, `non_agricultural` (the rest of the private sector) or `public`.
`from_date`	string	Optional. First month (`yyyy-mm-dd`, the month it falls in counts).
`to_date`	string	Optional. Last month (`yyyy-mm-dd`, inclusive).
`page`	integer	Optional. 1-based page. Default `1`.
`per_page`	integer	Optional. Results per page, 1-500. Default `100`.

curl https://api.croma.run/gt/mintrabajo-gt/igss-contributors/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "department_code": "01",
        "activity": "non_agricultural",
        "from_date": "2026-01-01"
      }'

Returns as_of (how current the data is), the applied filters, total and total_is_exact, page, per_page, total_pages, count and results[].

Minimum wage

POST /gt/mintrabajo-gt/minimum-wage/v1 Dataset The minimum wage in quetzales per month, nominal by year and real by month. Newest first.

Field	Type	Notes
`measure`	enum	Optional: `nominal` (one row per year and activity, the wage in force) or `real` (one row per month, deflated by the consumer price index). Both when empty.
`activity`	enum	Optional: `agricultural`, `non_agricultural` or `export_and_maquila` (published since 2008).
`circumscription`	enum	Optional: `CE1` (the department of Guatemala) or `CE2` (the other 21 departments). The two only differ in 2014 and since 2023.
`year_from`	integer	Optional first year, inclusive. `0` sets no bound. Default `0`.
`year_to`	integer	Optional last year, inclusive. `0` sets no bound. Default `0`.
`page`	integer	Optional. 1-based page. Default `1`.
`per_page`	integer	Optional. Results per page, 1-500. Default `100`.

curl https://api.croma.run/gt/mintrabajo-gt/minimum-wage/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "measure": "nominal", "year_from": 2020 }'

Returns as_of (how current the data is), the applied filters, total and total_is_exact, page, per_page, total_pages, count and results[].

Child labour risk

POST /gt/mintrabajo-gt/child-labour-risk/v1 Dataset The municipalities of a department or region, those at a risk level, or those whose name matches. Highest estimated prevalence first.

Field	Type	Notes
`department_code`	string	Optional two-digit department code, `01` (Guatemala) to `22` (Jutiapa), in the order the INE numbers them.
`region_code`	integer	Optional planning region, 1 (Metropolitana) to 8 (Petén). `0` sets no filter. Default `0`.
`risk_level`	integer	Optional national risk level, 1 (very low) to 5 (very high). `0` sets no filter. Default `0`.
`query`	string	Optional words of the municipality’s or department’s name, accents optional, e.g. `coban`.
`page`	integer	Optional. 1-based page. Default `1`.
`per_page`	integer	Optional. Results per page, 1-500. Default `100`.

curl https://api.croma.run/gt/mintrabajo-gt/child-labour-risk/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "department_code": "16" }'

Returns as_of (how current the data is), the applied filters, total and total_is_exact, page, per_page, total_pages, count and results[].

Reports and data files

POST /gt/mintrabajo-gt/publications-search/v1 Dataset The documents the Ministry publishes, by words in their title or section. Most recently changed first.

Field	Type	Notes
`query`	string	Optional words to match in the title, description or section, e.g. `empleador 2025`.
`format`	enum	Optional: `pdf` (reports and bulletins) or `zip` (data files and scripts).
`page`	integer	Optional. 1-based page. Default `1`.
`per_page`	integer	Optional. Results per page, 1-500. Default `100`.

curl https://api.croma.run/gt/mintrabajo-gt/publications-search/v1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CROMA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "query": "trabajo infantil" }'

Returns as_of (how current the data is), the applied filters, total and total_is_exact, page, per_page, total_pages, count and results[].

Response

Every response carries as_of: how current the data is.

Labour indicators (`results[]`)

Field	Notes
`series_id`	The row’s identity: survey, round, breakdown and category.
`survey`, `year`, `period`, `period_start`	The survey round: `ENEI` 2012-2022 (one to three rounds a year, “2019-2”), `ENCOVI` 2023, `ENEIC` quarterly since 2024 (“2026-T1”). `period_start` orders the rounds.
`breakdown`, `category`	`total`, or the dimension and the category within it, as the survey labels it.
`population`, `working_age_population`, `labour_force`, `employed`, `unemployed`, `informal_employed`, `underemployed`	Weighted persons.
`working_age_share`, `participation_rate`, `employment_rate`, `unemployment_rate`, `informality_rate`, `underemployment_rate`	Percent, two decimals.
`average_income`	Average monthly labour income of the employed, quetzales.

IGSS contributors (`results[]`)

contributor_id, period (yyyy-mm), period_start, year, department_code, department, activity (agricultural, export_and_maquila, non_agricultural, public), activity_name, sector, circumscription and contributors.

Minimum wage (`results[]`)

wage_id, measure (nominal by year, real by month), period, period_start, year, month, activity, activity_name, circumscription (CE1 the department of Guatemala, CE2 the rest) and amount in quetzales per month.

Child labour risk (`results[]`)

municipality_code (the INE’s four digits), municipality, department_code, department, region_code, region, children, children_in_child_labour, prevalence with prevalence_lower and prevalence_upper (percent), standard_error, coefficient_of_variation, estimate_quality, national_risk_level and national_risk (1 to 5 against the country), regional_risk_level and regional_risk (against the municipality’s region).

Publications (`results[]`)

publication_id, title, description, headings[] and section (where the page lists the file), file_name, format, bytes, modified_at, source_document_url (the Ministry’s link), document_url (Croma’s byte-identical copy, always available) and document_versions[] when the Ministry replaced the file at the same link.

The labour indicators are the Ministry’s own figures from the INE household surveys. Rounds are not strictly comparable across surveys: the ENEI, the ENCOVI and the ENEIC differ in design and fieldwork, and the category labels of economic activities and ethnic groups follow each survey’s codebook.

Full reference

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