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Project Implementation in ECLAC & ESCAP Region
Workshop on Informal Employment and Informal Sector Data Collection: Strategy, Tools and Advocacy
13-15 April, 2008, Amman, Jordan
Pietro Gennari, United Nations ESCAP
Saint Lucia Implementation Stage (1)
• Partner Institute: Central Statistical Office– MOU in effect since October 2007
• Data Collection: April-December 2008 (Three quarters)—launched last week!
• Last ECLAC mission: 7-9 April 2008 • Phase I (LFS)
– Sample size: 3,000 households in 3 rounds– Sample size enlarged by 750 households in each
round– Over-sampling in some districts to capture
tourism and mining activities to have a more representative sample of HUEMS for Phase II
Saint Lucia Implementation Stage (2)
• Phase II (HUEM Survey)– Agriculture not included– No sampling: survey of all HUEMs associated with
own-account workers and employers identified through Phase I
– Expected number of HUEMs522
• Next steps: Data collection, processing, tabulation and analysis
ECLAC Training• National Advocacy Workshop for Stakeholders of
the Informal Sector (Castries, 3 December, 2007) • Participants: Staff from Central Statistical Office,
ministries, non-governmental organizations and other agencies
• Topics covered:– Project background and objectives– Informal sector, informal employment: policy
concerns in Saint Lucia– Data Collection Strategy and Tools– Project work programme and timeline
• Regional workshops on UDCS and national accounts in Q1-2009
• ECLAC project website www.eclac.cl/id.asp?id=32332
Mongolia Implementation Stage (1)
• Partner: National Statistics Office– LOA in effect since October 2007
• Data collection July 2007-June 2008– July 2007-March 2008 completed (currently
in the fourth and last quarter of data collection)
• Phase I – Two-stage stratified sample design– Sample Size: 7,100 households (annual)
In the first quarter 1,724 households (4,641 individuals were surveyed => 2,553 employed during the reference period)
Mongolia Implementation Stage (2)
• Phase II– Agricultural enterprises not in scope– No sampling: survey of all HUEMs
associated with own-account workers and employers identified through Phase I
– Sample size:• 1st quarter: 441 HUEMs were identified and
surveyed• 2nd quarter: 425 HUEMs were identified and
surveyed
Mongolia Implementation Stage (3)
• Data review and data processing– Desk review—ESCAP reviewed data from 1st
quarter and now reviewing 2nd quarter data– Data processing & tabulation Last ESCAP
advisory mission on February 18-22, 2008– New versions of datasets from the first two
quarters, including weights, by end-April, 2008• Next steps
– Post-identification of informal sector enterprises and informal employment, detailed data analysis, country reports
Philippines Implementation Stage (1)
• Partners: – National Statistical Office (NSO)
•Main ‘1-2’ Survey implementing agency– National Statistical Coordination Board
(NSCB)•Contributes to HUEM-related tasks and in
charge of outputs for national accounts estimation
• LOAs, budgets and work plans being finalized• Last ESCAP mission (NSO): 14-18 January 2008
Philippines Implementation Stage (2)
• Data collection April-June 2008 (2nd quarter 2008 only)—was launched last week!
• Phase I – Sample Size: 55,000 households (second quarter
sample)– Sample design based on the 2003 Master Sample with
multi-stage stratified sample design
• Phase II – Covers all economic activities– Sample design is in the process of being finalized– Maximum number of HUEMs expected to be surveyed:
10,000• Next steps: Data collection, processing, tabulation and
analysis
Sri Lanka Preparatory Stage (1)• Partner: Department of Census and Statistics
– LOA, budget and work plan in process of being reviewed
• Last ESCAP mission: 21-25 January 2008• Data collection July 2008-June 2009• Questionnaires
– Phase I questionnaire: additional module to identify HUEMs (as informal employment questions are already included in the LFS) being pre-tested
– Phase II questionnaire being pre-tested
Sri Lanka Preparatory Stage (2)
• Phase I– Sample Size: 20,000 households (annual)– Two-stage stratified sample design
• Phase II– Agricultural enterprises included except
for those involved in paddy production– Survey all HUEMs identified through
Phase I– Expected number of HUEMs: 8,200
ESCAP Training: project countries (1)
• Workshop on Informal Employment and Informal Sector Data Collection: Strategy, Tools and Advocacy (19-21 September 2007)– Participants: National accountants and survey
statisticians from Mongolia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Saint Lucia; ECA, ECLAC and ESCWA
– Topics covered in the workshop: Design of a HUEM survey including frame
construction, sample design and questionnaire design;
Tabulations and dissemination variables on informal sector employment and GDP estimates;
Design of an advocacy/dissemination workshop
ESCAP Training: project countries (2)• Workshop on Informal Employment
&Informal Sector Data Collection II: Evaluation, Processing and Utilization of Data from ‘1-2’ Surveys (14-16 May 2008) – Participants: Survey statisticians and national
accountants from the 3 ESCAP project countries + Viet Nam; ECLAC and ESCWA
– Topics covered in the workshop: • Data quality review and evaluation;• Defining and generating derived variables from ‘1-2’
Survey data;• Analysis and tabulation formats;• Country approaches to NA estimations/direct
estimation of informal sector GDP.
ESCAP Training: project countries (3)
• Workshop on estimating informal sector GDP and integration into national accounts (6-8 October 2008) – Participants: National accountants from the 3
ESCAP project countries + Viet Nam– Topics covered in the workshop:
• Project guidelines for estimating informal sector GDP based on ‘1-2’ Survey data and its integration into national accounts
• All ESCAP training activities for project countries in Asia-Pacific are open to pilot countries in other regions and the partner RCs
• For further information on ESCAP activities: http://www.unescap.org/stat/isie
ESCAP Training: Regional• Regional Workshop on Unified Data
Collection Strategy (22-24 July 2008)– Participants: NSO staff of ESCAP selected countries
(=30) – Topics covered in the workshop
• UDCS methodology and implementation experience in the project countries
• Regional Workshop on Estimating Informal Sector GDP (1st quarter 2009)– Participants: NSO staff of ESCAP selected countries
(=30) – Topics covered in the workshop
• Project guidelines for estimating informal sector GDP based on ‘1-2’ Survey data and its integration into national accounts
Inter-regional work Technical Papers:
1. UDCS Paper (in draft version)2. Harmonized definition of informal sector based on the
UDCS3. Characteristics of informal employment
Guidelines/Manuals: 1. Guidelines for data dissemination with tabulation plan
and a list of key indicators 2. Guidelines for estimating informal sector GDP and
integration of informal sector production into national accounts–Global consultant (already hired): to draft the project guidelines for estimating HUEM/informal sector GDP and for integrating these estimates into NA
–Regional consultants: to assist with the implementation of these guidelines in the project countries
• Training materials for workshops, country report outlines
• Handbook on methodologies and best practices
• Final Interregional workshop to take place in Q3-2009.
Inter-regional work
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