Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Figure 2.1 Components of employment in the informal economy as percentage of non-agricultural employment(latest year available) -- Figure 2.2 Informal employment as percentage of total non-agricultural employment, by sex(latest year available) -- Figure 2.3 Informal sector employment as percentage of total non-agricultural employment, by sex(latest year available) -- Figure 2.4 Informal employment outside the informal sector as percentage of total non-agricultural employment, by sex (latest year available -- Figure 4.1 Protection of domestic workers under national legislation, 2010 -- List of tables -- Table 2.1: Employment in the informal economy and its components as percentage of non-agricultural employment (latest year available) -- Table 2.2 Components of employment in the informal economy as percentage of total non-agricultural employment, by sex (latest year available) -- Table 2.3: Employment in the informal economy and its components, selected countries, as percentage of non-agricultural employment -- Table 2.4 Contribution of informal sector (excluding agriculture) to non-agricultural GVA in selected developing and transition economies (in percentage) -- Table 3.1: Share of temporary employment in dependent employment (wage and salary) in selected OECD countries, 1990, 2000, 2008 and 2011 -- Table 3.2 Part-time employment as share of total employment in selected OECD countries,1990, 2000, 2008 and 2011 -- Table 3.3: Own-account self-employment as a share of total employment in selected OECD Countries,1990, 2000, 2008 (per cent) -- Table 4.1 Global and regional estimates by the ILO of the number of domestic workers, by sex, 1995 and 2010 -- List of boxes -- Box 3.1 Atypical employment and the quality of employment in Germany.

Box 3.2 Non-standard employment in Spain -- Box 4.1 Recent initiatives to improve estimates of domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and waste pickers -- Box 4.2 Cities and countries with data on four urban informal groups, as compiled by WIEGO -- Box 4.3 Immigrant Domestic Workers in and from Latin America -- Box 4.4 Domestic Workers in Latin America -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Main findings -- Chapter 1. Measuring the informal economy:Taking up the challenge -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 What is new in this publication? -- 1.3 Basic statistical concepts of informality -- 1.4 New developments in statistics on the informal economy -- 1.5 Overview of this report -- Chapter 2. Statistics relating to the informal economy -- 2.1 Country data on employment in the informal economy -- 2.2 Economic contribution of the informal sector and informal employment -- Chapter 3. Statistics on Developed Countries -- 3.1 Non-standard employment in developed countries -- Chapter 4. Specific Groups of Urban Informal Workers -- 4.1 Domestic Workers -- 4.2 Home-Based Workers -- 4.3 Street vendors -- 4.4 Waste pickers -- 4.5 Characteristics of the four groups (based on available data) -- Chapter 5. Future Directions for Measuring the Informal Economy -- Annex 1: Availability of data by region -- Annex 2: Country-Specific Tables.