The 7% unemployment that Cristina spoke of has within it more than 3.2 million precarious and informal jobs

The drop in unemployment to 7% in the latest INDEC measurement – referred to by Vice President Cristina Kirchner criticizing the number of social plans – is the result of greater activity, an increase in formal employment, but also of an increase in the informal occupations of the “popular economy”. Without those occupations, unemployment it would be much older.

In just six months, nearly 400,000 more people declared workers of the “popular economy”qualifying term used to name those who, for the most part, they work in conditions of poverty, of extreme precariousness, of informality.

Compared to a year ago there are 1.1 million more. As of February 12, 2022, there were a total of 3,225,268 workers, of which 394,748 corresponded to the last 6 months, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Social Development.

In the First Report (in February 2021) the National Register of Workers of the Popular Economy (RENATEP) scored 2,093,850.

Only a part of these workers receive aid from the state and a good part claim to be busy or underemployed in INDEC measures.

«On the other hand, that’s enough 22.3% of those registered perceives universal child allowance (AUH) e 22.5% the promotion work programmainly aimed at strengthening and promoting the work that takes place in the popular economy ”, reads the Report.

The Popular Economy Register is still open. I’m Street vendors, people who work in community kitchens and picnic areas, mainly women, street vendors, artisans, cardboard collectors, informal garbage collectors, car window cleaners, small farmers; and construction; who work in social infrastructure and environmental improvement e small producers and manufacturing producers, among other things.

The data illustrates the greatness of informality and precariousness of this mass of workers who, with their families, make up the enormous universe of poverty that is around 38% (18 million poor).

Profile of workers in the popular economy

• In the ReNaTEP population women predominate (57.8%).

• It’s a young populationin which 64.3% of workers are aged between 18 and 35 years.

• Buenos Aires is the province that leads the number of registrations con 35.9% of the national total. Tucumán, Salta, Chaco and Santiago del Estero continue to be the provinces with the highest registration volumes.

• In 9 provinces of the country – the great majority of NOA and NEA – members of the ReNaTEP they outnumber employees in the private sector registered with the SIPA. Over the past 6 months, Tucumán and La Rioja have registered more people in the popular economy than in registered private employment.

• Nationallythe share of members of the ReNaTEP compared to the population aged 18 to 65 is 10.8%. The highest percentage of the population registered in the register is concentrated in Santiago del Estero (30.1%), followed by Chaco (23.1%), Formosa (23.6%), Jujuy (24.7%) and Salta ( 20.4%).

• As regards the distribution by business segment, Social-Community Services and Personal Services and Other Professions account for 62.4% of cases, followed by Popular Commerce and Work in Public Spaces (11.8%). The rest of the business lines do not reach 10%, with Transport and Storage the one with the lowest number of registrations (1.2%).

• In the last 6 months, the Recovery, Recycling and Environmental Services branch (18.9%) together with Personal Services and Other Professions (18.3%) had a relative growth higher than the total for the register (15.2).

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