8.3.1 Proportion of informal employment in total employment, by sector and sex


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Period: Annual
Year: 2025


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Indicator information
Definition and methodology
Data source type and data collection method
Notes
ID of global indicator
Metadata update
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Indicator informationTop
Indicator

8.3.1 Proportion of informal employment in total employment, by sector and sex

Global indicator name

8.3.1 Proportion of informal employment in total employment, by sector and sex

Target

8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services

Goal

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all


Definition and methodologyTop
Definition

This indicator represents the share of informal employment in total employment, and by sector. In this case, the sector implies the division into agricultural and non-agricultural activities. 

Methodological explanations

Until 2020. under agricultural activities the entire sector of activity Agriculture, forestry and fishing, as well as the part of the sector Activity of households as an employer related to jobs in agriculture, i.e. households that produce goods and services for their own us, were  included.

 

From 2021, there was a change in the methodology, and persons who produce goods and services for their own use are no longer consider as employed, and the term agricultural activity refers only the Sector of Agriculture, forestry and fishing.

Method of calculation

Proportion of informal employment = (Total Informal employment ) / (Total employment) x 100

 

Proportion of informal employment in non‑agricultural employment = (Informal employment in non-agricultural activities) / (Total employment in non-agricultural activities) x 100

 

Proportion of informal employment in agricultural employment = (Informal employment in agricultural activities) / (Total employment in agricultural activities) x 100

Unit of measure

%

Available disaggregation

Gender, Sector

Territorial level

Republic of Serbia


Data source type and data collection methodTop
Data source

Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

Periodicity of data collection

Annual


NotesTop

Break in data series in 2021 because of methodological changes due to harmonization with the latest Eurostat regulation.


ID of global indicatorTop

C080301


Metadata updateTop
12/6/2025

Global metadataTop

https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-08-03-01.pdf