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workers are identified as self-employed when given the arrangements in which
they work, they should be classified as dependent homeworkers. Dependent
contractors are a sub-category of Dependent Workers that has been
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recommended by the 20 ICLS Resolution on Statistics on Work and
Employment Relationships (ICLS 2018).

2. Methodology
The questions included targeted self-identified self-employed persons
without employees , allowing the assessment of the following two different
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boundaries for identifying dependent contractors:
(a) Whether the worker receives raw materials or instructions provided
by “customer”, or another company, agent, or contractor. (indicates
operational dependency)
(b) Whether the pricing of their work/ product is set by a third actor or
customer. (indicates economic dependency).
A condition also applied selected only the own-account self-employed
whose enterprise is unincorporated. However only a small number of own-
account self-employed consist of an incorporated enterprise.
The data are from the Informal Employment Survey of the Thailand Labour
Force Survey conducted yearly on a quarterly basis. This module was
conducted throughout the country in July, August and September 2017. The
data collection was face-to-face interview with the head of household or
members of the household. The reference week is 7 days before the interview
date.

3. Results
The analysis indicates there is an overlap between not controlling price
and getting supplies or instructions from others. Fourteen per cent of workers
who do not control price also receive supplies or instructions from
“customer(s)” or “another company/agent/contractor” (Table 1). Therefore, in
the aggregate, the variable of “price control” by itself points to a large share
of workers most likely to be dependent contractors

The other sub-categories of self-employed worker—Employers and Contributing Family
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Workers—were not asked these questions; it would provide useful information
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