Proposals · Hawkers and Social Protection

Count them: a hawker livelihood dataset (§2.11.1 proposal 5)

Flag hawkers in IRAS and CPF statistics and run an annual stallholder survey, so earnings, hours, savings and injuries are finally measured.

The State has measured hawkers' income once, in passing (about $1,470 a month in 2021, read from a chart in the Advisory Committee on Platform Workers' report), and does not measure their hours, savings, health or injuries, while MOM publishes monthly CPF, opt-in and injury statistics for platform workers. The dataset would be published yearly by the plan's independent evaluator. Its cost is low, acted on by NEA, MOM and CPF Board.

Who pays

The library gives this mechanism no who-pays tag of its own.

What it costs

Low

Low · NEA, MOM, CPF Board; published by the plan's evaluator

What it builds on

MOM's monthly platform-worker CPF and injury statistics (§2.11.1).

The ask of Government

Instrument: NEA, MOM, CPF Board; published by the plan's evaluator
Fiscal cost: Low
Gap closed: One income median, for 2021; no data on hours, savings, health or injury

From §2.11.1.

Who gains

Hawkers: Hawkers are counted in, not assumed (Hawkers and Social Protection, C.5, §2.11.2).
Government: The state could say how retirement-ready its hawkers are (Hawkers and Social Protection, C.6).

Where the library discusses it

§2.11.1 · Hawkers and Social Protection, C.1 · Hawkers and Social Protection, C.5 · §2.11.2 · Follow the Plate, D.8.1

Note: Not itemised as its own §7.7 row; part of the Hawker Protection Floor (§2.11.2).