Programme: Statistics Programme

A Guide to Obtaining Data on Types of Informal Workers in Official Statistics

This brief provides a practical guide to collecting and compiling statistics on specific categories of informal workers – home based workers,...

Are Differences in National Definitions of Informal Employment and Employment in the Informal Sector Necessary?

The international standards concerning a statistical definition of informal employment and concerning statistics of employment in the informal...

Counting the Invisible Workforce: The Case of Home-based Workers

Statistics on Informal Employment in South Africa

This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in South Africa.

Toward a Common Framework for Informal Employment across Developed and Developing Countries

This paper addresses the importance of developing a common framework for defining informal employment in developed countries, and highlights...

Statistical Brief 15: Relating Quality of Employment to Informal Employment

Statistical Brief 15 discusses the importance and relevance of the definition of informal employment to the economies of developed countries...

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

Global and regional estimation of informal sector employment: A methodology

Background document for the WIEGO Statistics Planning Meeting, June 2002

The Contribution of Informal Sector to GDP in Developing Countries: Assessment, Estimates, Methods, Orientations for the Future

Presented at the 4th Meeting of the Delhi Group on Informal Sector Statistics; Geneva: 28-30 August 2000

Statistics on Street Vendors and Market Traders in Metropolitan Lima and Urban Peru

Based on this survey, the brief reviews trends in street vending and market trade in Lima and in urban Peru between 2004 and 2015. It also...