Theme: Statistics

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

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

Durban Street Traders

This report provides a disaggregated analysis of known street vendors in the eThekwini Municipality by type of area, with further disaggregation...

Research on Informal Work in the U.S.: Emerging Concepts and Measurement

Background memo prepared for the WIEGO Workshop on Informal Employment in Developed Countries, Harvard University, October 31 ‐ November...

Background Note for Geneva Meeting

Background document for the WIEGO Statistics Planning Meeting, June 2002

African Women in Food Processing: A Major, But Still Underestimated Sector of Their Contribution to the National Economy

Paper prepared for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

The World’s Women 2005: Progress in 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. 

Informality in Latin America: Facts and Opportunities

This paper was written as a contribution to a WIEGO/OECD project under the OECD Regional Reviews on Informality.

The Informal Economy in Developing Countries: An Introduction