Marketing in the Informal Sector

• People in the informal sector do not own registered businesses and they are not registered for tax
• Informal businesses are not recorded by Central Statistics Services
• The informal sector is also known as the seconding economy
• It is impossible to know to what extent the informal sector contributes towards national income
• The informal sector is mainly a cash industry
• The operators in the informal sector perform in the primary, secondary and tertiary sector of the economy