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%T Independent or Dependent? European Labour Statistics and Their (In)ability to Identify Forms of Dependency in Self-employment %A Bozzon, Rossella %A Murgia, Annalisa %J Social Indicators Research %N 1 %P 199-226 %V 160 %D 2022 %K Dependent self-employment; Dependent contractors; Economic dependency; Operational dependency; 2015 European Working Condition Survey (EWCS); 2017 ad hoc module on self-employment from the European Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) %@ 1573-0921 %~ FDB %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-78096-9 %X In the studies on labour market change and transformation of employment relations, the growth of new forms of self-employment, including platform work, has raised a broad debate about how to define, classify, and analyse the wide range of positions within the heterogeneous category of self-employed workers. This article analyses the emergent methodologies used in European comparative labour statistics to identify forms of dependency in self-employment. Using the 6th wave of the 2015 European Working Condition Survey and the 2017 ad hoc module on self-employment from the European Labour Force Survey, this article discusses how the representation of dependent self-employment changes by adopting a different operationalization of economic and operational dependency. Findings show how different indicators of dependency change the representation of self-employment in different economic sectors, affecting our understanding of the transformation of working arrangements within self-employment and the boundaries between employment and self-employment. %C NLD %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info