Transcript April 2008 - United Nations Economic and Social Commission for

Workshop on Informal Employment and Informal Sector Data
Collection: Strategy, Tools and Advocacy
13-15 April, 2008, Amman, Jordan
Project Implementation in ECLAC
& ESCAP Region
Pietro Gennari,
United Nations ESCAP
Project Countries in ECLAC & ESCAP
Saint Lucia
Mongolia
Philippines
Sri Lanka
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 ownaccount workers and employers identified through
Phase I
– Expected number of HUEMs522
• 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 multistage 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 AsiaPacific 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 UDCS
3. 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
Inter-regional work
• Training materials for workshops, country report
outlines
• Handbook on methodologies and best practices
• Final Interregional workshop to take place in Q32009.
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