Informal enterprise

Employers and own-account workers are considered informal when their economic units belong to the informal sector. The informal sector is a subset of household unincorporated enterprises (not constituted as separate legal entities independently of their owners)  that produce for sale in the market, even if partly, and that do not have a complete set of accounts and/or are not registered under national legislation.

[ILO, Resolution concerning the measurement of employment in the informal sector, Fifteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS), Geneva, 1993.]