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How big is India's formal sector?

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By Abhishek Waghmare
| Data For India
India's informal sector employs a majority of its workforce, and has remained large over the last two decades despite economic growth. Estimating its size requires looking at the different ways in which informality is defined. In international labour statistics and India's national statistics, there are two different approaches to defining informality. The first is to divide the enterprises that hire people into formal and informal enterprises based on their production characteristics.
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India's informal sector

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By Abhishek Waghmare
| Data For India
No matter how it is defined - either as the share of workers employed outside the formal sector or as informal employment - informality in India's workforce is close to 90%. In this piece, we look at who works in India's formal and informal sectors, what sort of work they do, and in which sectors of the economy. Rural/ urban and gender A little more than 10% of India's workers are in the formal sector. The informal sector and farming together employ just under 90% of India's workforce.
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Measuring the informal sector and informal employment

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By Abhishek Waghmare
| Data For India
The informal sector and informal employment are frequently mentioned in discussions on India's labour force or the economy, but its definitions are not well documented. In this piece, we document the concepts and definitions recommended by international agencies, as well as the ways in which India's official labour statistics have adopted these definitions of what informality means. What determines informality?
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