Statistics

Are Differences in National Definitions of Informal Employment and Employment in the Informal Sector Necessary?

The international standards concerning a statistical definition of informal employment and concerning statistics of employment in the informal...

Considerations for Revision of the International Classification of Status in Employment – ICSE-93

Many employment arrangements today do not fit easily within the existing International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-93) either...

Informal Sector, Poverty and Gender: A Review of Empirical Evidence

Measuring the Informal Economy: From Employment in the Informal Sector to Informal Employment

Policy Integration Department, Bureau of Statistics, Working Paper, No. 53

Informality in South Asia: A Review

This paper seeks to explore the diversity of the informal economy across five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan,...

Non-regular Employment and Gaps in Statistics in Japan

Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

Towards the Creation of Comparable Databases on the Informal Economy

Background document for the WIEGO Statistics Planning Meeting, June 2002

Statistics on Domestic Workers in Latin America

Domestic work is an important occupation, involving a significant proportion of the workforce in Latin America.  

Contribution of Women to the National Economy

In the context of growing gender inequalities and the consequential adverse impacts on the well-being of the society, gender issues have...

Statistics on Home-Based Workers in Nepal

This brief presents estimates of homebased workers in Nepal, certain characteristics of their work, their age distribution and family composition....