A Handbook on Using the Mixed Survey for Measuring Informal Employment and the Informal Sector

This Handbook presents a cost-effective and reliable data collection strategy for measuring and analyzing informal employment and the informal sector. The cornerstone of this methodology is a version of the mixed survey that is anchored to the Labor Force Survey conducted regularly by developing countries.



The Handbook draws from experience in the implementation of the mixed survey in Armenia, Bangladesh, and Indonesia under regional technical assistance 6430: Measuring the Informal Sector. It discusses viable methodologies and processes by which data collected from the mixed survey can be utilized to generate statistics on informal employment and the informal sector. The empirical evidence that will be produced can solidify the efforts on these topics, from research to policy making.

Contents
Foreword
Abbreviations and Acronyms
List of Tables, Figures, Boxes, and Appendixes
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Importance of Informal Sector and Informal Employment Statistics
1.2 Data Collection Strategies
1.3 Cost-Effective and Reliable Strategy: The Mixed Survey
1.4 Initiatives by the Development Community
1.5 Regional Technical Assistance 6430: Measuring the Informal Sector
1.6 Objectives and Layout of the Handbook
Chapter 2: The Mixed Survey
2.1 Overview
2.2 Basic Concepts
2.3 Expanding the Labor Force Survey
2.4 Designing the Second Phase: Informal Sector Survey
2.5 The Informal Sector Survey Questionnaire
2.6 Field Operations
2.7 Data Processing
2.8 Data Quality Assessment
2.9 Data Cleaning
2.10 Statistical Neighbors
Chapter 3: Measuring and Analyzing Informal Employment
3.1 Road Map
3.2 Overview of Informal Employment
3.3 Classifying Informal and Formal Employment
3.4 Labor Market Profile
3.5 Comparative Analysis of Wages
3.6 Extent of Social Protection
3.7 Gender Analysis
Chapter 4: Estimating Contribution of Informal Sector to Gross Domestic Product
4.1 Road Map
4.2 Overview on Measuring Informal Sector’s Gross Value Added
4.3 Household Unincorporated Enterprises with at least Some Market Production
4.4 Informal Sector’s Gross Value Added under the Production Approach
4.5 Informal Sector’s Gross Value Added under the Income Approach
4.6 Annualizing Outputs, Intermediate Inputs, and Gross Value Added
Chapter 5: Supplementing Informal Sector Survey Data with Other Relevant Indicators
5.1 Limitations of the HUEM Survey
5.2 Adjustments for Bias
5.3 Country Cases
Chapter 6: Continuing the Informal Employment and Informal Sector Gross Value Added Series
6.1 Institutionalization of the Expanded Labor Force Survey
6.2 Labor: Input, Productivity, and Share in Income
6.3 Employment, Productivity, and Output
6.4 Exploring the Relationship of Output and Labor to Estimate Informal Sector Gross Value Added Series During Non-ISS Years
Appendixes
References