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  Regional Workshop on the Measurement of Informal Sector and Informal Employment
  Bangkok, 30 November - 2 December 2009
  Last update: 27 May 2010
 

In the context of the United Nations Development Account Project "Interregional Cooperation on the Measurement of Informal Sector and Informal Employment", the Statistics Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) was organizing a regional workshop.

The workshop aimed to enhance the technical capacity of participants in measuring the informal sector, including its contribution to GDP, and informal employment. The Project piloted the application of a 'two-phased' or '1-2' survey approach to measure the informal sector in five countries representing three regions: Mongolia, Philippines and Sri Lanka in Asia; Palestine in Western Asia and St Lucia in the Caribbean. The same methodology is also being implemented in Armenia, Bangladesh, and Indonesia with technical assistance from the Asian Development Bank, and in Vietnam with assistance from DIAL-IRD. The workshop shared with a broader group of countries the body of knowledge created and lessons learned from designing, processing of and generating estimates from these sample surveys.

The regional workshop took place from 30 November-2 December 2009 in Conference Room 4, UNCC and about 80 participants, including representatives from national statistical offices and international agencies attened.

   
General Information
Workshop programme
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List of Participants
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Workshop Contents
Workshop concept note
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Technical preparation guidelines
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(105KB)
Project Resources
Data collection strategy paper
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(332KB)
Guidelines on Estimating HUEM and Informal Sector Value-Added using "1-2" Survey data
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(294KB)
Pre-Workshop assignment
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(196KB)
Responses to to the pre-workshop assignment:
 
Armenia (234KB)   Malaysia (201KB)
Labour Force Survey Questionnaire 2009   Maldives (199KB)
Labour Force Survey Questionnaire 2008   Myanmar (206KB)
Bangladesh (208KB)   2009 Informal Sector Survey Questionnaire
Bhutan (199KB)   Nepal (213KB)
China (216KB)   Pakistan (211KB)
Indonesia (200KB)   Labour Force Survey (2009-10)
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (205KB)   Republic of Korea (198KB)
Kazakhstan (201KB)   Thailand (200KB)
Kyrgyzstan (199KB)   Viet Nam (200KB)
Questionnaires
   
Phase 1
Phase 2
  Mongolia
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(127KB)
  Philippines
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(113KB)
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(302KB)
  Sri Lanka
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Author/Organization Title
Presentation
Session 2: Improving statistical measurements of the informal sector and informal employment: Concepts, Definitions and Objectives
Statisitcs Division, ESCAP Session 2: Statistical Definitions: Informal Sector Enterprise and Informal Employment
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Labor Standards Statistics Division, Bureau of Labor and Employment , Philippines Challenges in operationalising the Statistical Definition of Informal Sector
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Session 3: Informal sector and informal employment: Statistics, knowledge and policy
ECA Panel on Informal Sector and Informal Employment: Statistics, knowledge and policy (30th November 2009)
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Department of Labour Ministry of Labour Relations & Man Power, Sri Lanka Country report
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Session 4: Estimating informal employment
Statistics Division, ESCAP Estimating informal employment
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(307KB)
Statistics Division, ESCAP Analyzing informal employment
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(132KB)
National Statistical Office of Mongolia Extending LFS questionnaire to estimate informal employment, including informal sector employment
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(415KB)
National Statistical Office, Philippines 2008 Informal Sector Survey
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(174KB)
Department of Census & Statistics, Sri Lanka Informal Employment - A Case Study
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Informal Employment - A Descriptive Analysis
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National Definition of the Informal/Formal sector employment in Sri Lanka
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WIEGO Estimating and Analysing Informal Employment
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Session 5: Data collection on characteristics and estimation of value-added of informal sector enterprises: Statistical units and survey methods
Statistics Division, ESCAP Collecting Data on IS Enterprises
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Central Statistical Organization, India Household and establishment/enterprise surveys in India
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(178KB)
Session 6: (i) The ‘1-2’ Survey Approach for estimating Informal Sector Employment and Value-Added and (ii) A closer look at the Phase 1 questionnaire
Statistics Division, ESCAP The ‘1-2’ Survey: A Data Collection Strategy for Measurement of the Informal Sector & Informal Employment
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(508KB)
Statistics Division, ESCAP Overview on data Overview on data processing issues
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(274KB)
National Statistical Office of Mongolia Recommendations on design, administration and processing of Phase I
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(393KB)
Department of Census & Statistics, Sri Lanka Lessons learned and Recommendations on Design
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General Statistics Office, Viet Nam Country report
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Session 7: A closer look at Phase 2 questionnaire – Data requirements for estimating value-added
Statistics Division, ESCAP Estimating value added with 1-2 Survey data
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General Statistics Office, Viet Nam Country report
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Session 8: Sample design and weighting in ‘1-2’ surveys: Estimation of value-added
ADB Sampling Design and Weighting in the ‘1-2’ Survey
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(454KB)
Session 9: Estimating contribution of informal sector GDP to total GDP
Statistics Division, ESCAP Integrating HUEM / IS value added estimates into national accounts
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ASEAN Secretariat Non-Observed Economy under the EU-ASEAN Statistical Capacity Building (EASCAB) Programme
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(907KB)
National Statistical Office of Mongolia Estimating contribution of informal sector GDP to total GDP
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(270KB)
Department of Census & Statistics, Sri Lanka Integrating informal sector GDP into total GDP estimates
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(602KB)
Session 10: Microdata documentation, archiving and dissemination: International standards and tools
Statistics Division, ESCAP

Overview

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Background Documents
Report of the Conference: Eighteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians, Geneva, 24 November–5 December 2008
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(755KB)
Report of the Conference: Seventeenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians, Geneva from 24 November to 3 December 2003
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(673KB)
Resolution concerning statistics of employment in the informal sector, adopted by the Fifteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians, January 1993
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Informal sector surveys: Advantages and limitations of different survey methods and survey designs for the data collection, ILO Bureau of Statistics
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(328KB)
 
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