Theme: Statistics

Measuring Quality of Employment: Country Pilot Reports

A Handbook on Using the Mixed Survey for Measuring Informal Employment and the Informal Sector

This Handbook is based on the experience of the the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in implementing a two -part “mixed “survey...

Home-Based Workers in Bangladesh: Statistics and Trends

This brief presents estimates of home-based workers in Bangladesh based on two rounds of labour force surveys (nationally representative...

Statistics on Street Vendors and Market Traders in Metropolitan Lima and Urban Peru

Based on this survey, the brief reviews trends in street vending and market trade in Lima and in urban Peru between 2004 and 2015. It also...

Informality, Gender and Poverty: A Global Picture

May 27, 2006

Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India

Statistics on Informal Employment in Kenya

This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Kenya.

Informal employment in the European Union

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

Employment, The Informal Sector, and Poverty: Data and Analytical Challenges

The Informal Sector and Informal Employment in Indonesia

This report contains the findings of the 2009 National Labor Force Survey (Sakernas) (second round conducted on 8–1 August 2009) and the...