Statistics

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...

Note on applications of definition and methods in Mexico

Note prepared for the WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.

Street Vendors in Asia: A Review

This paper aims to review recent research on street vendors in Asia with the purpose of assessing the magnitude of street vending in different...

The Informal Sector: An Equilibrium Model and some Empirical Evidence from Brazil

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,...

Measuring Nonstandard Employment in the United States

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

Statistics on the Informal Economy: Lessons Learned from the International Compilation Exercise

Background document for the WIEGO Statistics Planning Meeting, June 2002