National statistical agencies should be encouraged to periodically collect and compile statistical information on the characteristics and contribution of the informal sector to national employment and GDP, including for sub-populations such as dependent homeworkers, street vendors and women.

ILO in cooperation with UNSD, may complete the current stocktake of existing country practices and conduct periodic inverntories in future years. Including measures of employment and GDP by industry sector and gender (where available). It was agreed that the Chair of the Delhi Group will communicate this recommendation to international and regional statistical organisations.

The Delhi Group Secretariat, in consultation with UNSD, would establish a Website for the Delhi Group, including a workgroup discussion database where papers on informal sector issues can be stored and Group members can interact on project work.

The Delhi Group should consider not only the economic dimension of the informal sector but also its social dimension described by concerns such as on poverty or social security. Since the informal sector is being more and more considered as an important social issue on policy levels, the Group is interested in an open dialogue with all users of informal sector statistics and on the facilites to collect and process informal sector

The Group felt it necessary to adequately represent data on all groups which are engagted in the finformal secto and to make all necessary arrangements on conceptual as well as on data collection issues. The Group refers to categories which are for conceptual, practical or cultural reasons diffciult to survey such as female or child worker. In particular the Group highlights also the need for data about groups such as street vendors, homeworkers etc. where these are a part of the informal sector.

In light of that the Group recommended that further work should be undertaken on classifications which distinguish certain groups in the labour market. Where members of the Delhi Group are participating in relevant international for a, they should convey the views of the Group on these Classification and standards issues.

The Group recommended to the Chair to draw the attention of the UN Statistical Commission and national statistical agencies to the tast that very few countries had implemented SNA93 in respect of the informal sector (within the household sector) and that it was not sufficient for countries to include the sector indistinguishable in the overlall accounts. It was felt that the sector should be accorded equal importance as other sectors in the national accounts and that more effective use needs to be made by national accounts of data collected in informal sector surveys.

Finally the group considered a proposal by WIEGO (Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing) which ils an ;international coalition of grassroot organizatins research statistics organization and internationaly policy organizations which seek to promote better statistics. Research programmes and policies in suppport of women workers in the informal sector. These are included as an annexure of the recommendations. It agreed on the importance of independency and place of work as categories for the identification and measurement of the informal sector. These are included as an annexure of the recommendations. It agreed on the importance of independency and place of work as categories for the identification and measurement of the informal sector These will be examined when deciding on the plan of action of the Group.