ZIMBABWE\u2019s informal sector only has 238 000 people formally employed, with the majority in the sector being own employers-cum-employees.<\/p>\n
This is contained in the 2019 Labour Force and Child Labour Survey (LFCLS) released by the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZIMSTAT) this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cPaid employees constitute 24.5% amounting to 238 715 workers out of the almost one million people employed in the sector,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n
Out of the 975 880 people in the informal sector, the remaining 69% are own account employers and workers constituting 671 000 people who are involved in survivalist jobs.<\/p>\n
The majority of the informal sector employees were married, 17% never married, 10 % divorced and 12% widowed.<\/p>\n
The informal sector employed more people with Ordinary Level as their highest qualification while about 2% had attained tertiary education.<\/p>\n
However, the latest figures contradict earlier announcements by government officials confirming that 5.7 million people are employed in the informal sector.<\/p>\n
Economic expert John Robertson dismissed the ZIMSTAT figures arguing that they do not fit the standard definition of employees.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe definition does not apply if you are not being paid. An employee is somebody who has got a payslip and can get certain privileges like accessing credit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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