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Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India

By on December 16, 2011

As part of an analysis commissioned by WIEGO, this note describes the methods of estimating the numbers of domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors, and waste pickers using three rounds of the Surveys of Employment and Unemployment in India, the 55th round in 1999-2000, the 61st round in 2004-5 and the 66th round in 2009-10. Recommendations for improving the identification of these workers in India are provided at the end. These recommendations are relevant more broadly.

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Raveendran, Govindan. Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India. , , . , 2011. https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Reveendran_Methodology_Estimating_Workers_India_ 16_12_2011.pdfRaveendran, G. (2011). Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India. , , . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Reveendran_Methodology_Estimating_Workers_India_ 16_12_2011.pdfRaveendran, Govindan. "Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India." 2011, .Raveendran Govindan. "Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India." (2011). https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Reveendran_Methodology_Estimating_Workers_India_ 16_12_2011.pdfRaveendran, G 2011, 'Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India', , , . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Reveendran_Methodology_Estimating_Workers_India_ 16_12_2011.pdfGovindan Raveendran, 'Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India' (2011). Raveendran G. Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India. . 2011. https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Reveendran_Methodology_Estimating_Workers_India_ 16_12_2011.pdfRaveendran, Govindan. Estimating Domestic Workers, Home-Based Workers, Street Vendors and Waste Pickers in India. . 2011. , . https://www.wiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Reveendran_Methodology_Estimating_Workers_India_ 16_12_2011.pdf

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