Table 2 Proportion of Workers in Each Employment Category, by Region of the World
From: How Large are Earnings Penalties for Self-Employed and Informal Wage Workers?
A. Self-employed and employees | Self-employment Shares | (Standard Error) | Employee Shares | (Standard Error) | Number of Countries | Number of Surveys |
 Total sample | 0.267 | (0.089) | 0.733 | (0.089) | 73 | 347 |
 Region | ||||||
  Latin America & Caribbean | 0.321 | (0.005) | 0.679 | (0.005) | 20 | 217 |
  Europe & Central Asia (High-Income) | 0.108 | (0.007) | 0.892 | (0.007) | 13 | 58 |
  Europe & Central Asia (Developing) | 0.055 | (0.009) | 0.945 | (0.009) | 19 | 43 |
  Other | 0.272 | (0.034) | 0.728 | (0.034) | 21 | 29 |
    East Asia & Pacific | 0.467 | (0.002) | 0.533 | (0.002) | 3 | 3 |
    Middle East & North Africa | 0.493 | (0.014) | 0.507 | (0.014) | 2 | 3 |
    North America | 0.116 | (0.015) | 0.884 | (0.015) | 1 | 3 |
    South Asia | 0.455 | (0.020) | 0.545 | (0.020) | 2 | 3 |
    Sub-Saharan Africa | 0.521 | (0.077) | 0.479 | (0.077) | 13 | 17 |
B. Dividing self-employed into non -professional own account and employers/professional own-account | Non-Professional Own-account Share | (Standard Error) | Employers & Professionals Share | (Standard Error) | Number of Countries | Number of Surveys |
 Total sample | 0.225 | (0.104) | 0.033 | (0.010) | 42 | 152 |
 Region | ||||||
  Latin America & Caribbean | 0.235 | (0.007) | 0.056 | (0.002) | 7 | 52 |
  Europe & Central Asia (High-Income) | 0.051 | (0.025) | 0.021 | (0.010) | 12 | 56 |
  Europe & Central Asia (Developing) | 0.053 | (0.011) | 0.056 | (0.010) | 12 | 31 |
  Other | 0.240 | (0.134) | 0.028 | (0.013) | 11 | 14 |
    East Asia & Pacific | 0.460 | (0.000) | 0.007 | (0.000) | 2 | 2 |
    Middle East & North Africa | 0.469 | (0.002) | 0.025 | (0.000) | 2 | 2 |
    North America | 0.072 | (0.000) | 0.044 | (0.000) | 1 | 3 |
    South Asia | 0.437 | (0.000) | 0.020 | (0.000) | 1 | 2 |
    Sub-Saharan Africa | 0.323 | (0.183) | 0.021 | (0.002) | 5 | 5 |
C. Dividing employees into informal and formal | Informal Employees | (Standard Error) | Formal Employees | (Standard Error) | Number of Countries | Number of Surveys |
 Total sample | 0.244 | (0.029) | 0.447 | (0.034) | 34 | 190 |
 Region | ||||||
  Latin America & Caribbean | 0.229 | (0.010) | 0.445 | (0.027) | 18 | 172 |
  Europe & Central Asia (High-Income) | na |  | na |  | 0 | 0 |
  Europe & Central Asia (Developing) | 0.454 | (0.301) | 0.526 | (0.299) | 9 | 11 |
  Other | 0.177 | (0.041) | 0.338 | (0.144) | 7 | 7 |
    East Asia & Pacific | na |  | na |  | 0 | 0 |
    Middle East & North Africa | 0.630 | - | 0.069 | - | 1 | 1 |
    North America | na |  | na |  | 0 | 0 |
    South Asia | na |  | na |  | 0 | 0 |
    Sub-Saharan Africa | 0.176 | (0.041) | 0.338 | (0.144) | 6 | 6 |