Regional Course on Informality: Definitions, Measurement, SDGs and Other Policy Indicators

- Providing technical information and illustrations of good practices on collecting and tabulating data on informal employment and employment in the informal sector, and categories of informal workers as well as related data needed for the preparation of national accounts and SDG indicators and;
- Promoting the collection of data and improvement of statistics on informal employment and employment in the informal sector as an integral part of national labour force statistics.

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Document for the workshop

 

Concept Note

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Daily Programme

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Participants List

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Course Material

Module One- Framing the discussion

Session 1.1 - What is the informal economy?ppt
Session 1.2.1 - Statistical definitions of informal economy Informal sectorppt
Session 1.2.2 - Statistical definitions of informal economy Informal employmentppt
Session 1.3 - The statistical implication of the 19´th ICLS resolutionppt
Session 1.4 - Mapping National Definitions of Informal Employment to International Statistical Standardsppt
Session 1.5 - Special Groups of Informal workersppt

Module Two: Measuring Informality, Statistically Speaking

Session 2.1 - Overview of measurement objectives and methods for producing statistics on the informal economy and SDG Indicators related to employment, decent work and inequalityppt
Session 2.2 - Group work Data requirements for measuring the informal economyppt
Session 2.2 - From data items to derived variables of GDP estimationppt
Session 2.2 - Statistics on the informal employment & employment in the informal sector: Statistical unitsppt
Session 2.3 - Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Concepts/ the Informal Economy and GDPppt
Session 2.4 - Data sources for producing statistics on the informal economy Household surveysppt
Session 2.5 - Data Sources for Producing Statistics on Informal Economy: Establishment Based Data Collection ppt
Session 2.5.1 - The informal economy in national accounts statisticsppt
Session 2.7 - Group activities ppt

Module 3 - Module Three: Producing and Presenting Statistics and Indicators on the Informal Economy: Increasing Value for Policy Needs

Session 3.1 – Statistics on the informal employment & employment in the informal sector: From questions to derived variablesppt
Session 3.2 - Going from derived variables to indicators on work in the informal economy Producing informal employment indicators ppt
Session 3.3 - Presenting and using statistics and indicators on work in the informal economy: with focus on statistics on specific groups of workers or specific policy areas: Supporting national diagnoses of informality & the formalization processppt
Session 3.4 - Derived Variables and Contribution of the Informal Economyppt

Module 4: Module Four: Way forward

Session 4.1- Challenges in Improving Measurement of the Informal Economy
Session 4.2 - Capacity-building for Improving Measurement of the Informal Economy
Session 4.3 -Way forward: Next steps by countries — identifying actions to be taken over the next six months
Case study
Informality at a glance Snapshot by countrypdf
Case study : Elements for a national diagnosis of informality in Abelinadoc
Exercises worksheetsxls