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. 2021 Oct 15;1:53. Originally published 2021 May 19. [Version 4] doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.13639.4

Table 2. Estimation results.

While observing 140 million workers, we predict there to be an amount of 23 million unobserved freelancers worldwide. Notes: For row (b), the error band is calculated as bootstrapped 95% confidence interval; for rows (c), and (d) the error bands are calculated as minimum and maximum values in the data; for row (e) the error band is calculated as the 2.5 th and 97.5 th percentile point of the distribution of platforms mentioned; for row (f) the error band is calculated as +/- 1.96 * std. error. All numbers are rounded to two significant digits. See text for details.

Estimate Error band
Number of workers
(a)     registered (observed) 140,000,000
(b)     registered (predicted) 23,000,000 [12,000,000, 65,000,000]
(c)     with at least one project completed 8.6% [2.0%, 36.8%]
(d)     with at least 10 completed projects or at least
    $1000 earned
2.0% [0.1%, 10.0%]
(e) Average of multi-homing platforms 1.83 [1, 4]
(f) Proportion of workers sharing
accounts
0.21 [0.18, 0.24]