The National Institute of Statistics (INE) published this Friday morning a new Labor Informality Bulletin. In it, they revealed that the informal employment rate reached 27.1% during the July-September 2022 quarter. The figure decreased 0.5 percentage points (pp.) in 12 months.
However, according to the INE, informal employed persons totaled 2,393,242, which represents a variation of 3.7% in 12 months. The positive variation of the informal employed population, by sex, was influenced exclusively by women (11.2%).
In the same period, the female informal employment rate was 28.9% and the male rate, 25.7%, with variations of 0.6 pp. and -1.5 percentage points, respectively; and according to age groups, they did so mainly in the sections 65 years and over (25.4%) and 55-64 years (5.8%).
Economic sectors
By economic sector, the expansion in 12 months of the informal employed population was mainly influenced by household activities as employers (36.5%) and agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing (9.8%).
By occupational group, the variation came from service and commercial workers (8.0%) and elementary occupations (8.3%).
Meanwhile, the occupational categories that most influenced the 3.7% expansion of informal employed persons compared to the same quarter of the previous year was due to the growth of private wage earners (8.2%), domestic service personnel (22 .8%), self-employed workers (1.1%) and employers (7.3%).
On the other hand, public wage earners (-8.0%) and unpaid family members of the household (-1.9%) contracted.
Lastly, the highest rates of informal employment were registered in own-account workers (67.7%) and domestic service personnel (55.0%).
Let us remember that “informal employed persons are those who work dependently, but without access to social security (health and AFP) due to their employment relationship,” the INE said in a statement.
“So are those who work independently in a company, business or activity that belongs to the informal sector. Unpaid family members of the household are also considered informally employed persons,” added the institution.
