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The so-called 'po[CENSORED]r economy' is one of the great bets of the Government of Gustavo Petro. For this reason, it was determined in the bill of the National Development Plan (PND) that the Dane must create a statistical information system focused on these activities, and also, that they must also be incorporated in the Economic Census scheduled for 2024.

The po[CENSORED]r economy, as defined in the PND, encompasses "commercial trades and occupations (production, distribution and commercialization of goods and services) and non-commercial (domestic or community) developed by low-scale economic units (personal, family, microbusinesses or microenterprises), in any economic sector”.

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Portfolio consulted with the director of Dane, Piedad Urdinola, about what the process of building the Po[CENSORED]r Economy Information System (SIEP) will be like. According to the official, the statistical records that will feed the creation of the SIEP include the microbusiness survey, statistics on the cultural economy, the circular economy, the information system on informal economic activities, and other records.

“We will start with conceptual and methodological aspects to integrate the information system with other data sources, with other statistical operations. This system will need the interoperability of many sources that do not appear overnight with the National Development Plan. A set of associated statistical issues is already being worked on and they make up this great battery of information that will allow more efficiently, and in the medium term, the design of our SIEP”, he explained.

The economic census
According to the director of Dane, another key input will be the Economic Census, and in particular, the investigations and records that want to link the issue of informality from different perspectives.

Although there are 5.3 million micro-businesses in Colombia, according to official Dane statistics, the economic census is expected to better identify the country's productive units.

“The census seeks to detail a universe. If we talk about a po[CENSORED]tion census, it is households and people, a po[CENSORED]tion census measures economic units. In this case, we will follow international guidelines on how an economic unit is measured, and Colombia will include for the first time the economic units of the po[CENSORED]r economy”, indicated the director of Dane.

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According to the official, it is expected to categorize these economic units by activity and geographical area, and even seeks to include a gender approach, at least in the identification of the heads, or "the heads" of these.

In addition, according to Urdinola, from the point of view of people, the Great Integrated Household Survey will be used, the one that provides information on the labor market, and the Quality of Life Survey. It is worth remembering that in Colombia, six out of ten workers are informal, since the national indicator is 58.2%.

And for the measurement of non-commercial activities, the Care Economy Satellite Account and the National Time Use Survey will also be taken into account, which allows us to see unpaid domestic work.

 

https://www.portafolio.co/economia/censo-economico-por-que-es-tan-importante-para-medicion-de-la-po[CENSORED]r-579042

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