Theme: Statistics

Statistics on Informal Employment in Ghana

This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Ghana.The statistics are based on...

Measuring Informal Employment in OECD Countries

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

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...

Statistical Brief 15: Relating Quality of Employment to Informal Employment

Statistical Brief 15 discusses the importance and relevance of the definition of informal employment to the economies of developed countries...

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