Currently self-employment in Kazakhstan remains an underexplored segment of the labor market. The author of this article proposes a methodological approach to assessing the self-employment market in the Republic of Kazakhstan, which involves nine stages. The work consistently reveals the content of each of the stages. This methodological approach includes evidence that the formation and development of intellectual and innovative selfemployment in Kazakhstan will create an additional impetus to the economic development of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This evidence is based on a study of the impact of intellectual and innovative activities on economic development. The article clearly and step by step reveals the steps to test research hypotheses using modern statistical information processing packages based on quantitative economic and mathematical methods and the available official data of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Thus, In the process of research, the author substantiates the proposed sequence of stages of analysis and a set of assessment indicators, the use of quantitative research methods.

self-employment market, methodological approach, indicators, innovative potential, model, quantitative method, forecast