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

By on December 01, 2004

The purpose of the present working paper is (i) to explain the international statistical definitions of employment in the informal sector and of informal employment, which were adopted by the Fifteenth and Seventeenth International Conferences of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) in January 1993 and December 2003, and (ii) to illustrate the practical application in household surveys of these definitions in providing examples of their translation into survey questions.

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Hussmanns, Ralf. Measuring the Informal Economy: From Employment in the Informal Sector to Informal Employment. Policy Integration Department, Bureau of Statistics, Working Paper, No. 53, , . International Labour Organization, 2004. Hussmanns, R. (2004). Measuring the Informal Economy: From Employment in the Informal Sector to Informal Employment. Policy Integration Department, Bureau of Statistics, Working Paper, No. 53, , . Hussmanns, Ralf. "Measuring the Informal Economy: From Employment in the Informal Sector to Informal Employment." Policy Integration Department, Bureau of Statistics, Working Paper, No. 53, International Labour Organization, 2004, .Hussmanns Ralf. "Measuring the Informal Economy: From Employment in the Informal Sector to Informal Employment." Policy Integration Department, Bureau of Statistics, Working Paper, No. 53 (2004). Hussmanns, R 2004, 'Measuring the Informal Economy: From Employment in the Informal Sector to Informal Employment', Policy Integration Department, Bureau of Statistics, Working Paper, No. 53, . Ralf Hussmanns, 'Measuring the Informal Economy: From Employment in the Informal Sector to Informal Employment' (2004) Policy Integration Department, Bureau of Statistics, Working Paper, No. 53 Hussmanns R. Measuring the Informal Economy: From Employment in the Informal Sector to Informal Employment. Policy Integration Department, Bureau of Statistics, Working Paper, No. 53. 2004. Hussmanns, Ralf. Measuring the Informal Economy: From Employment in the Informal Sector to Informal Employment. Policy Integration Department, Bureau of Statistics, Working Paper, No. 53. 2004. , .

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