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  • Home-based worker and street vendor in Bangkok 2015 Statistical Briefs

    Informal Workers in Urban Thailand: A Statistical Snapshot

    This brief contains estimates on informal workers in Bangkok and other urban centres in Thailand.

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    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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    Informal Workers in Urban South Africa: A Statistical Snapshot

    This brief offers details of the urban informal workers in South Africa’s metros, with a further focus on three cities.

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    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...

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    Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

    This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

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    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...

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  • Working Papers

    South Africa’s Informal Economy: A Statistical Profile

    This paper presents a statistical profile of informal employment in South Africa from 2005 to 2007, and attempts to identify the economic...

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    Home-Based Workers in India: Statistics and Trends

    This brief presents numbers and analysis of home-based workers in India from 1999-00 to 2011-12. It is based on data collected by the National...

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  • Working Papers

    Urban Employment in India: Recent Trends and Patterns

    Working Paper 7 was first published in 2011 and was updated in 2014. This paper explores trends in urban employment in India, with a focus...

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  • Statistical Briefs

    Statistics on Home-Based Workers in Nepal

    This brief presents estimates of homebased workers in Nepal, certain characteristics of their work, their age distribution and family composition....

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