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] |