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Catalog of Indicators Work/Labor 111 Name of indicator: Informal sector employment rateDefinition: This rate compares the total population working in the informal sector to the total working population. Notes: Informal employment is a job-­‐based concept and encompasses those jobs that generally lack basic social or legal protections or employment benefits and may be found in the formal sector, informal sector or households. Employment in the informal sector is an enterprise-­‐based concept which is defined as jobs in unregistered and/or small unincorporated private enterprises; such enterprises are not constituted as separate legal entities (and are thus not officially registered) and do not maintain a complete set of accounts. It is characterized mainly by the vulnerability and precariousness. Description: Informal employment is negatively correlated with income per capita and positively correlated with poverty across countries. This suggests that as GDP increases and/or as poverty declines across countries, workers are more likely to be aware of their rights to certain legal and social protections and worker benefits and successfully achieve such protections and benefits. Sector: Work/EmploymentSubsector: Legislation. Migration. Social exclusion. Sources: [1] Global Employment Trends, OIT, Ginebra,2010; [2] Living with economic insecurity. Women and Precarious Work. International Trade Unions Confederation. ITUC. March 2011; [3] Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction. A Handbook for Policy-­‐makers and Other Stakeholder. Commonwealth Secretariat, 2004. [3] Statistical Update on employment in the informal economy. ILO. June 2011 Unit of measuring: Percentage Formula: SSw% = WwssTW*100; WERIS =WWITWI *100; Formula explained: Informal sector employment rate is the division of the total workers who are in the informal sector (jobs in unregistered and/or small unincorporated private enterprise) among the workers in the country. In formula: ISER= Informal sector employment rate; WI= Total workers in the informal sector; TW= Total workers. For women: WERIS= Women