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Market vendor (stall holder)

Other names

Official name: Market vendor

stall holder, market trader, costermonger, fruit market vendor, street market vendor, covered market vendor, barrow boy, flower market vendor, street market seller, vegetable market vendor, outdoor market vendor

Markets and street trading

They sell things like fruit and vegetables at a market and talk to people passing by so they will buy.

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The work

The tasks come from O*NET (United States) and ESCO (Europe), the world's two occupation databases. How the work is done can differ in Uganda; our team adds the local way where it does.

  1. 1

    Explain products or services and prices and demonstrate use of products.

  2. 2

    Answer questions about product features and benefits.

  3. 3

    Distribute product samples or literature that details products or services.

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Sources

Built from 5 sources · reviewed 2026-10-29

Uganda labour market: UBOS (NLFS 2021, LMS 2025, UNHS, NHRS), ILOSTAT, NDP IV Human Resource Development Plan

Official record

Uganda Bureau of Statistics; International Labour Organization (ILOSTAT); National Planning Authority. Gathered by The Collar360.

UBOS and NPA publications (public); ILOSTAT CC BY 4.0

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The Collar360 Uganda research (occupations, UVQF, Public Service, labour market)

Research for this platform

Compiled by The Collar360 from public Ugandan sources, each cited with its evidence level.

Collar360; each fact keeps its own source

ISCO-08, International Standard Classification of Occupations

International classification

ISCO-08 © International Labour Organization.

Free to use with attribution

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ESCO, European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations

International classification

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.

European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU): free reuse with attribution

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O*NET 31.0 Database

International classification

Includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 licence. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.

CC BY 4.0

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In other languages

français
vendeur sur les marchés/vendeuse sur les marchés
español
vendedor de puesto de mercado/vendedora de puesto de mercado
العربية
بائع السوق / بائعة السوق
português
Vendedor em mercados/Vendedora em mercados
Deutsch
Marktverkäufer/Marktverkäuferin
italiano
esercente di banco di mercato

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