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Agricultural workers > Female
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2% |
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[65th of 77]
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Days off work
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125 days |
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[6th of 20]
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Employment in agriculture > % of total employment
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2.7 %
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[49th of 94]
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Female decision makers
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35% |
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[15th of 67]
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force, total
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17,645,480
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[32nd of 184]
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Gender division of housework
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2.25 |
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[3rd of 13]
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Hours worked
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1,718 hours |
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[4th of 9]
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Labor force
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17,950,000 |
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[28th of 132]
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Labor force > By occupation agriculture 2%, manufacturing 13%, construction 6%, services 76%, other 3% |
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Strikes
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217 |
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[3rd of 27]
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Trade union membership
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30% |
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[9th of 18]
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Unemployment
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7.3% |
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[5th of 18]
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Unemployment gender ratio
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96% |
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[22nd of 30]
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Unemployment rate
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6% |
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[52nd of 107]
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Unemployment, total > % of total labor force
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7.2 %
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[46th of 101]
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Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required 10 working days, determined by provincial law |
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Work Time > More than 40 hours
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54.7% |
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[8th of 18]
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Working time to buy a car
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1,552 hours |
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[5th of 16]
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Working time to buy beef
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48 minutes |
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[12th of 16]
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Youth unemployment
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12.6% |
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[12th of 30]
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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; OECD; World Development Indicators database; calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002; Jeanne A. Batalova and Philip N. Cohen, 'Premarital Cohabitation and Housework: Couples in Cross-National Perspective', Journal of Marriage and Family 64, August 2002, p.748; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; OECD; Figures are from the OECD. The figures are from EIRO for France, Ireland and Italy; OECD Historical Statistics; calculated on the basis of data on male and female unemployment rates from OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook 2001. Paris; Wikipedia: Vacation
; ILO, Key Indicators; International Metalworkers' Federation, The Purchasing Power of Working Time 2002: An International Comparison of Average Net Hourly Earnings 2001 (International Metalworkers' Federation, Geneva, 2002);
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