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  • Research Reports

    African Women in Food Processing: A Major, But Still Underestimated Sector of Their Contribution to the National Economy

    Paper prepared for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Measurement of Employment-Related Income: Concepts, Data Sources and a Test of Methods

    This brief aims at reviewing the possibility of measuring income from employment with existing sources, in particular, assessing the feasibility...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    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

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Statistics on Domestic Workers in Latin America

    Domestic work is an important occupation, involving a significant proportion of the workforce in Latin America.  

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  • Statistical Briefs

    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...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Statistics on Informal Employment in Ghana

    This brief summarizes statistics on employment – and, in particular, on urban informal employment – in Ghana.The statistics are based on...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Statistics on Waste Pickers in Brazil

    In the current economic downturn, the job of waste picker has taken on new importance as an employment opportunity for those with limited...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    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...

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    Statistics on Informal Employment in Kenya

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

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  • Statistical Briefs

    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,...

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