Theme: Statistics

City Level Statistics on the Informal Workers

This table (Excel spreadsheet) contains the data WIEGO commissioned on informal employment and its workers in 19 cities. WIEGO now produces...

WIEGO Statistics Programme an example in book Measuring Social Change

The WIEGO Statistics Programme is featured in a recently published book by Alnoor Ebrahim. Ebrahim examines an “emergent strategy”...

Informal Workers in Urban Thailand: A Statistical Snapshot

This brief contains estimates on informal workers in Bangkok and other urban centres in Thailand.

Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World

The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning...

WIEGO in the World Newsletter

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ILO-WIEGO Statistical Reports

WIEGO has worked closely with the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the development of statistics on the informal economy. In 2018,...

Measuring the Non-observed Economy: A Handbook

Informal Sector Enterprises: Some Measurement Issues

Measuring Informal Employment in South Africa: The New Quarterly Labour Force Survey

This briefing note discusses how the changes introduced in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) will affect

Nonstandard work in advanced economies: Need for measuring both quantity and quality of work

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