Statistics

Considerations for Revision of the International Classification of Status in Employment – ICSE-93

Many employment arrangements today do not fit easily within the existing International Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-93) either...

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...

Domestic Labour: Global Facts and Figures in Brief

South Africa’s Informal Economy: A Statistical Profile

This paper presents a statistical profile of informal employment in South Africa from 2005 to 2007, and attempts to identify the economic...

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

Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil

In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited...

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...

Statistics on Home-Based Workers in Nepal

This brief presents estimates of homebased workers in Nepal, certain characteristics of their work, their age distribution and family composition....

The World’s Women 2015: Trends and Statistics

This is the sixth edition in a series of reports produced by the United Nations Statistics Division every five years as called for specifically...