This table provides metadata for the actual indicator available from UK statistics closest to the corresponding global SDG indicator. Please note that even when the global SDG indicator is fully available from UK statistics, this table should be consulted for information on national methodology and other UK-specific metadata information.
| Indicator available | Proportion of people in employment on zero-hours contracts, by age, sex, region, and occupation |
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| Indicator description | |
| Geographical coverage | United Kingdom |
| Unit of measurement | Percentage (%) |
| Definitions | Employment comprises all persons of working age who during a specified brief period, such as one week or one day, were either in paid employment (whether at work or with a job but not at work) or in selfemployment (whether at work or with an enterprise but not at work). Informal employment comprises persons who in their main or secondary jobs were in one of the following categories: Own-account workers, employers and members of producers’ cooperatives employed in their own informal sector enterprises (the characteristics of the enterprise determine the informal nature of their jobs); Own-account workers engaged in the production of goods exclusively for own final use by their household (e.g. subsistence farming); Contributing family workers, regardless of whether they work in formal or informal sector enterprises (they usually do not have explicit, written contracts of employment, and are not subject to labour legislation, social security regulations, collective agreements, etc., which determines the informal nature of their jobs); Employees holding informal jobs, whether employed by formal sector enterprises, informal sector enterprises, or as paid domestic workers by households (employees are considered to have informal jobs if their employment relationship is, in law or in practice, not subject to national labour legislation, income taxation, social protection or entitlement to certain employment benefits). An enterprise belongs to the informal sector if it fulfils the three following conditions: It is an unincorporated enterprise (it is not constituted as a legal entity separate from its owners, and it is owned and controlled by one or more members of one or more households, and it is not a quasi-corporation: it does not have a complete set of accounts, including balance sheets); It is a market enterprise (it sells at least some of the goods or services it produces); The enterprise is not registered or the employees of the enterprise are not registered or the number of persons engaged on a continuous basis is below a threshold determined by the country. |
| Calculations | Proportion of informal employment in non-agricultural employment = (Informal employment in non-agricultural activities / Total employment in non-agricultural activities) * 100 |
| Other information | this is a proxy |
| Data last updated | 2018-04-04: see changes on GitHub opens in a new window |
| Metadata last updated | 2018-05-31: see changes on GitHub opens in a new window |