Engendering informality measurement for Labor Force Surveys

This project will help with deepening and revising measures and standards for measuring women's informal work (including conditions, types of work, barriers, constraints and economic contribution). Improved measurement will help inform understanding and policymaking on women's work. It will cover activities such as the development and testing of model questionnaires covering various aspects of informality with a gender lens, provision of regular inputs to the standard setting process via the working group established to develop new standards for adoption by the international community and related work on diagnostic approaches through which data is linked to policy development. The ultimate outputs will be a range of guidance on measurement and use of data on informality from a gender perspective. The inputs to the standard setting process are designed to ensure that the newly adopted standards will be appropriately engendered and enable proper measurement of women’s informal work. The combined strategic goal of these linked activities will be to achieve wider (across countries), deeper (more detailed and meaningful) and more engendered measurement of informal employment building on the guidance emanating from the project.

Project symbol

GLO/20/27/GAT

Admin unit

GED
STATISTICS

Start date

22/10/2020

End date

31/12/2024

Total allocation

3059577

Total expenditure

Status

Active

3063255

Development Partners

Gates Foundation

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Output A.1. More and better statistics with reliable labour market information systems