Statistics

ILO-WIEGO Statistical Reports

WIEGO has worked closely with the International Labour Organization (ILO) in the development of statistics on the informal economy. In 2018,...

Report on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector

Informality, Gender and Poverty: A Global Picture

May 27, 2006

Earnings Structures, Informal Employment, and Self-Employment: New Evidence from Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa

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...

Nonstandard work in advanced economies: Need for measuring both quantity and quality of work

Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

Work

The Director of WIEGO’s Statistics Programme, Joann Vanek previously led the development of the programme on gender statistics at the United...

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,...

The Informal Sector and Informal Employment in Armenia

This report contains the findings of the mixed-survey approach to measuring informal sector.

Home-Based Workers in Pakistan: Statistics and Trends

This report presents statistics and trends on home-based workers in Pakistan, based on data from the Labour Force Survey for two points in...