Informal Sector Survey
The 2008 Informal Sector Survey (ISS) was a nationwide data collection operation by the National Statistics Office, in collaboration with United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP). It aims at putting in place a system of 2-step surveys related to the evaluation and the follow up of employment, informal jobs and informal sector. This is the 1st nationwide survey of informal sector conducted by the NSO.
OBJECTIVES OF THE INFORMAL SECTOR SURVEY
a. To identify and construct a sampling frame of IS among the enterprise in which employed persons work;
b. To provide data for estimating employment in IS and informal sector enterprises through the LFS;
c. To provide data for estimating informal employment; and
d. To obtain data for estimating the contribution of informal sector enterprises to total Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
| Datasets | Microdata | Documentation | Database |
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Guide on How to Access the Data Marts using the following applications:
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Enter the server account details and then click the "Open" button.
- Hostname/IP:
- Username:
- Password:
- Database:
Accesing data using ODBC
- Make sure you have an empty dataset by typing "clear" in the Command window and pressing [ENTER].
- From the File menu, select Import then click ODBC data source.
- In the "Import data from an ODBC data source" window, select the created ODBC data source. Then click “Ok” or “Submit” to import the data.
- Click “Data Editor (Browse)” icon to view the imported data.
Connect to existing data sources
- Click the New Connection button to create a new data connection.
- You will see a list of available connection types displayed; choose one to create a connection to the associated data source.
- Click "OK" to load the data.
- Click “View Table” icon to view the imported data.
