informal: World Bank Informality Data

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World Bank Informality Data

Description

A panel dataset containing data from World Bank indicators on urbanization and informality in select Latin America and the Caribbean countries (1960-2019). The variables are as follows:

Usage

data(informal)

Format

A (tibble) data frame with 1182 rows and 9 variables.

Details

• country. Country name.

• year. Year.

• pct_pop_slum. Population living in slums (% of urban population).

• pct_informal_work. Informal employment (% of total non-agricultural employment).

• pct_urban. Urban population (% of total population).

• pct_firms_compete. Percent of firms competing against unregistered or informal firms.

• pct_firms_constrain. Percent of firms identifying practices competitors in the informal sector as a major constraint.

• pct_firms_registered. Percent of firms formally registered when they started operations in the country.

• pct_largest_city. Population in the largest city (% of urban population).

Source

wbstats package and World Bank Indicators.

hail2thief/ladata documentation built on Sept. 9, 2024, 1:28 p.m.