Workshop on statistics for informal economy
With the collaboration of the General Statistics Office of Viet Nam (GSO) and the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs (ILSSA), the event is organized with the aim to facilitate discussions between the main stakeholders to build a consensus about the main characteristics of informal employment in Viet Nam.
Viet Nam is also one among the countries with the highest percentage (25%) of informal employment outside the informal sector in the Asia-Pacific region. Informal workers in Viet Nam face with low incomes, limited opportunities for skills development and often without contract and social protection. The precarious working conditions make them more vulnerable to external shocks, particularly in the increasing international competition led by the country’s greater economic integration, including new free trade agreements.
However, there is no consensus yet about the main characteristics of informal employment in Viet Nam that lead many difficulties in data collection for evidence-based policy advocacy.
In order to inform more policy makers about characteristics of informality in Vietnam according to sectors, provinces and socioeconomic profiles, it is important to have an agreed description of what is considered as informal economy/informal employment in Vietnam.
The workshop therefore will be orgwanized by GSO in a close collaboration with ILSSA to discuss on the statistics and the characteristics of informal employment in Vietnam according to the data available produced by GSO (especially the LFS 2009 and 2015) and ILSSA to provide a broad picture of informal employment in Vietnam. GSO has been collecting data on informality since 2009 following the 17th ICLS guidelines.
However, there is no consensus yet about the main characteristics of informal employment in Viet Nam that lead many difficulties in data collection for evidence-based policy advocacy.
In order to inform more policy makers about characteristics of informality in Vietnam according to sectors, provinces and socioeconomic profiles, it is important to have an agreed description of what is considered as informal economy/informal employment in Vietnam.
The workshop therefore will be orgwanized by GSO in a close collaboration with ILSSA to discuss on the statistics and the characteristics of informal employment in Vietnam according to the data available produced by GSO (especially the LFS 2009 and 2015) and ILSSA to provide a broad picture of informal employment in Vietnam. GSO has been collecting data on informality since 2009 following the 17th ICLS guidelines.
Objectives
- Bring together the main stakeholders in a discussion in order to build a consensus about the main characteristics of informal employment in Viet Nam and to check if any vulnerable groups to informal employment were forgotten.
- Identify priority target groups/sectors and priority policy areas.
- Help identify and agree on the provinces/sectors where the expert team will launch some case studies