Section B defines this segment of the labour market, conceptually and empirically, on the basis of the international literature, a review of the regional situation and data from household surveys. Section C examines the size of the care sector in Latin America and how it has changed over the past decade. Although it is useful for analytical purposes to treat all care woikers as a single, homogeneous group, there are, in fact, two veiy different subgroups: domestic woikers (providing services directly to households) and all other care workers (most of whom work in health and education services). Particular care is therefore taken to differentiate between these two subgroups, while also analysing the sector as a whole.