This report evaluates key indicators used to measure the global progress and ongoing challenges in achieving social justice, building on the premise of the ILO Constitution that “universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice”.
The State of Social Justice 2025 Read More »
This snapshot presents global and regional trends along with the most recent country-level figures, based on the latest statistical standards and definitions adopted at the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) (ILO, 2013), as well as the previous standards from the 13th ICLS (ILO, 1982). In some cases, such as for high-income countries, these
Informal employment rate Read More »
This document provides recommended survey questions for collecting data on work relationships (ICSE-18), informal employment, and the classification of economic units across three sectors: informal, formal, and household own-use production and community sector. (HOC). It incorporates the 20th ICLS resolution on work relationships (ICSE-18) and the 21st ICLS resolution on statistics for the informal economy.
Survey Questions for Collecting Data on Work Relationships and Informality Read More »
Most employed people around the world are in the informal economy, which increases people’s vulnerability and puts national economies at risk. Through new statistical standards on the informal economy and improved data collection tools and methods, the ILO helps countries improve their measurement of informal employment to better understand the working lives and conditions of people with informal jobs.
New statistical standards for improved measurement of the informal economy Read More »
This infographic summarizes some of the key impacts of informality for workers, businesses, and governments.
The Reality of Informality Read More »
This infographic showcases some key global statistics on the informal economy.
Giving Visibility to the Invisible: Measuring informality Read More »
This note provides an overview of the requirements to apply the latest statistical standards through household surveys.
