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methods of statistical measurement. The initial focus would be on measuring
worker incidence in IPW as well as working conditions especially through a
labour force survey or targeted household survey, for example, focusing on
households with Internet access. As the issue of connectivity is central to the
concept of IPW, this must be taken into consideration when developing the
sampling frame particularly in countries (and subregions such as rural areas)
where Internet access may be scarce.
Work will also focus on reviewing additional data collection approaches
such as specialized surveys targeting digital labour platforms to obtain
information regarding workers in IPW or targeting Internet users. The benefit
of conducting surveys directly with the digital labour platforms is that
operators are able to provide information regarding the parties in the
triangular relationship, including the number of registered and active platform
workers; types of tasks; skills requirements, working time aspects of the tasks,
payment to workers by the task; functioning of algorithmic management to
assign, monitor and evaluate completion of tasks and data tracking; number
and type of requesters or clients and volume of client requests over a given
reference period. Special surveys could seek to obtain information about the
number and characteristics of platform operators and the requesters that use
the platform. However, it’s important to bear in mind that IPW is a global
phenomenon in which workers, clients, and platform operators are often
geographically dispersed across countries and even continents, posing unique
challenges for measurement, suggesting the need for cross-border
cooperation on data collection.
The findings will help support development of a proposal for a statistical
conceptual framework and preliminary measurement approaches using labour
force surveys and other household surveys as well as other specialized data
collection instruments and methods that could be tested. Such a proposal
could be crafted to support the establishment of a cross-cutting variable on
IPW in the context of measuring work relationships, supporting the Resolution.
Alternatively, it could be used to develop a stand-alone conceptual framework
and methods for measuring IPW that would be developed as a proposal for a
new statistical standard on IPW, being fully aligned with ICLS Resolutions on
work statistics and work relationships.
Entrepreneurs. The approach to measuring entrepreneurial activity has
evolved significantly over time. The Resolution addresses the limitations of the
System of National Accounts (SNA)-based definition for the identification of
entrepreneurs.
The ICSE-18 moves away from the term self-employed previously used in
ICLS standards since it is interpreted differently in SNA as compared with
labour market statistics. ICSE-18 introduces the category of independent
workers, who are those employed persons who own and control an economic

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