Programme: Statistics Programme

Home-Based Workers in the World: A Statistical Profile

This brief presents key indicators on home-based workers and their work across the world. Globally, 260 million women and men produce goods...

Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: A Statistical Profile

In recent years, home-based work has grown in Pakistan. This growth is due to an increase in the number of women doing home-based work, while...

Home-Based Workers in Bangladesh: A Statistical Profile

In Bangladesh, there were about 3.2 million non-agricultural and 7.4 million agricultural home-based workers, according to the 2016/17 Labour...

Informal Workers in India: A Statistical Profile

Employment in India is overwhelmingly informal: 90 per cent of all workers are employed under informal arrangements nationally; in urban...

Informal Workers in Mexico: A Statistical Snapshot

This Brief provides statistics on the informal economy and categories of informal workers in Mexico. The data in this brief are based on...

Home-Based Workers in India: A Statistical Profile

This statistical snapshot of India’s home-based workers offers data on the size of this workforce, age, sex, type of industry and more. Data...

Informal Workers in Ghana: A Statistical Snapshot

This brief details recent data on informal workers in Greater Accra, urban Ghana and Ghana overall, and looks at the data:

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 Impact Evaluation – Evaluator’s Assessment Report Mainstreaming the Measurement of the Informal Economy