Statistics

Defining and measuring informal employment

Abstract: The paper summarises the international statistical definition of the informal sector as adopted by the Fifteenth International...

WIEGO Research on Informal Employment: Key Methods, Indicators & Findings

Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference. 

WIEGO Impact Evaluation – Evaluator’s Assessment Report Mainstreaming the Measurement of the Informal Economy

The Informal Economy in Developing Countries: An Introduction

Informality in Africa: A Review

This paper examines the realities of informal employment in sub-Saharan Africa, where a significant proportion of employment activity and...

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.  

The Story Behind the Numbers: Women and Employment in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Commonwealth of Independent States

Measurement of Employment-Related Income: Concepts, Data Sources and a Test of Methods

This brief aims at reviewing the possibility of measuring income from employment with existing sources, in particular, assessing the feasibility...