Employed population share by status in Latin America and the Caribbean

In 2019, around 62.1 percent of the employed inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean held “paid employment jobs”, or jobs where they held employment contracts with right to basic remuneration. The shares of contributing family workers remained constant at 4.7 percent. Moreover, in the region, Suriname had the highest rate of employees, and Haiti the highest rate of own-account workers.

Distribution of total employed population in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2015 to 2019, by status

Characteristic	Employees	Own-account workers	Contributing family workers	Employers
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May 2021

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Region

LAC

Survey time period

2015 to 2019

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The source provides the following additional information:
"The employed comprise all persons of working age who, during a specified brief period, were in one of the following categories: a) paid employment (whether at work or with a job but not at work); or b) self-employment (whether at work or with an enterprise but not at work). Data are disaggregated by status in employment according to the latest version of the International Standard Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-93). Status in employment refers to the type of explicit or implicit contract of employment the person has with other persons or organizations. The basic criteria used to define the groups of the classification are the type of economic risk and the type of authority over establishments and other workers which the job incumbents have or will have."

Percentage points missing or exceeding 100 percent are due to rounding.

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