Table B: Defining the building blocks of the SDGs

|Building blocks|SDG<br>indicator|Definition|Source|Minimum<br>number<br>of<br>questions|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|Employment|<br>1.1.1<br>8.3.1<br>8.6.1<br>8.7.1|Persons in employment are defined as all those of working age who, during<br>a short reference period, were engaged in any activity to produce goods or<br>provide services for pay or profit. They comprise:<br>(a) employed persons ‘at work’, i.e. who worked in a job for at least one<br>hour|19th ICLS, §27|<br>(1) Employed in the last<br>seven days<br>(2) Intended destination of<br>production (mainly own‐use<br>roduction or for the market)|
|||;<br>(b) employed persons ‘not at work’ due to temporary absence from a job,<br>or to working‐time arrangements (such as shift work, flexitime and<br>comensator leave for overtime)||p<br>(2) Temporary absent, but<br>still formally attached to the<br>job|
|Unemployment|8.5.2|py .<br>Persons in unemployment are defined as all those of working age who were<br>not in employment, carried out activities to seek employment in the last<br>four weeks and were currently available to take up employment given a job<br>|19th ICLS, §47|<br>(1) Not in employment<br>(2) Seeking employment<br>(3) Currently available|
|Inactivity||opportunity.<br>Not employed nor unemployed|||
|Domestic<br>and<br>care<br>work (hours)|<br>5.4.1|Provision of ‘services’ (beyond the 2008 SNA production boundary but<br>inside the General production boundary) covers:<br>(i) household accounting and management, purchasing and/or transporting<br>goods;<br>(ii) preparing and/or serving meals, household waste disposal and recycling;<br>(iii) cleaning, decorating and maintaining one’s own dwelling or premises,<br>durables and other goods, and gardening;<br>(iv) childcare and instruction, transporting and caring for elderly,<br>dependent or other household members and domestic animals or pets,<br>etc.;|19th ICLS, §47(c)|(1) Questions about time use,<br>including on domestic and<br>care work|
|Sector|2.3.2<br>8.3.1<br>9.2.2|ISIC (International Standard Industrial Classification)|https://unstats.un.org/<br>unsd/classifications/Fa<br>mily/Detail/27|Classification based on ISIC|
|Occupation|5.5.2<br>8.5.1|ISCO‐08 (International Standard Classification of Occupations)|http://www.ilo.org/pub<br>lic/english/bureau/stat/<br>isco/isco08/index.htm|Classification based on ISCO|
|Formal/informal<br>employment in non‐<br>|8.3.1|Informal employment compromises:<br>(1) Own‐account workers and employers employed in their own informal<br>|Defining and measuring<br>informal<br>|(1)<br>Questions<br>about<br>enterprises<br>'|
|agricultural sector||sector enterprises<br>(2) Contributing family workers<br>(3) Employees holding informal jobs, whether employed by formal sector<br>enterprises, informal sector enterprises, or as paid domestic workers by<br>households<br>(4) Members of informal producers’ cooperatives<br>(5) Own‐account workers engaged in the production of goods exclusively<br>for own final use by their household|employment, endorsed<br>by the 17th ICLS|(enterprises<br>size, registered/unregistered<br>firm, type of employer)<br>(2) Questions about informal<br>employment (contract, paid<br>leave,<br>sick<br>leave,<br>social<br>security contributions)|
|Hours worked|2.3.1<br>(indirectly)|Hours actually worked is the time spent in a job for the performance of<br>activities that contribute to the production of goods and/or services during<br>a specified short or long reference period. Hours actually worked applies to<br>all types of jobs (within and beyond the SNA production boundary) and is<br>|18th ICLS, §11 & $15|(1) Questions about hours<br>worked (last seven days or<br>usual) by occupation|
|Hourly<br>earnings<br>of<br>employees|<br>8.5.1|not linked to administrative or legal concepts.<br>The concept of earnings, as applied in wages statistics, relates to<br>remuneration in cash and in kind paid to employees, as a rule at regular<br>intervals, for time worked or work done together with remuneration for<br>time not worked such as for annual vacation other paid leave or holidays|12th ICLS, §8|Remuneration: (1) In cash(2)<br>In kind|
|Average<br>income<br>of<br>small‐scale<br>food<br>producers|<br> <br>2.3.1<br>(indirectly)<br>2.3.2|, , .<br>Income related to self‐employment is defined as the income which is<br>received, over a given reference period, by individuals, for themselves or in<br>respect of their family members, as a result of their current or former<br>involvement in self‐employment jobs.|16th ICLS, §16|Requires question on (1) crop<br>production , (2) the costs of<br>intermediate inputs and (3)<br>investment|
|NEET<br>(not<br>in<br>employment,<br>education or training)|<br>8.6.1|The percentage of the population of a given age group and sex who is not<br>employed and not involved in further education or training.|ILO & Eurostat|(1) Questions to define the<br>employment<br>status<br>(employed,<br>unemployed,<br>inactive)<br>(2) Follow‐up question for<br>the unemployed and inactive<br>about education/training in<br>the last 4 weeks|

Source: Based on relevant ICLS resolutions.

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