KILM 8: Employment in the informal economy |
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Introduction and Background
Summary of formal/informal employment in formal/informal sector
The KILM 8 indicator is a measure of employment in the informal sector as a percentage of total non-agricultural employment.
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a) | Formal sector: Formal sector is an
enterprise/business that is officially registered and kept a record of
book of accounts (assets and expenditures). Examples: People working in civil service, government service, etc |
b) | Informal sector: Informal sector is an
enterprise/business that is not officially registered and do not kept a
record of book of accounts (assets and expenditures). Example: online unregistered business. |
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| Formal employment: Formal employment are the
people who work to receive a regular wage and assured certain rights
Example: paid annual leave, paid sick leave. |
d) | Informal employment: Informal employment
refers to jobs as observation units as opposed to the concept of
informal sector that refers to production units as observation units. It
is broader concept including: |
| i) | employment in the informal sector (except those rare employees in the sector who may have formal employment), and
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| ii) | informal employment outside the informal sector |
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