The statistic shows the estimated self-employment rate among working women in China in selected years from 2011 to 2021. In 2021, approximately 44.9 percent of working women in China were self-employed. The figure has been gradually declining in the past decade.
Self-employment rate among working women in China from 2011 to 2021
Self-employed workers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners or in cooperative, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs." i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced. Self-employed workers include four sub-categories of employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives, and contributing family workers.
Figures have been rounded.
According to the source, the data are ILO estimates.
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