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South America > Colombia > Labor

COLOMBIAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 0% [77th of 77]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 24.89 [103rd of 162]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 16.1 % Time series [25th of 86]
Employees, industry, male > % of male employment 20.6 % Time series [52nd of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 75.5 % Time series [33rd of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 22.4 % Time series [13th of 94]
Employment in industry > % of total employment 18.8 % Time series [51st of 94]
Female decision makers 38% [6th of 67]
force with tertiary education > % of total 25.1 % Time series [17th of 52]
force, total 22,339,580 Time series [26th of 184]
Labor force 20,500,000 Time series [25th of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 22.7%, industry 18.7%, services 58.5%
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 18.7% Time series [10th of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 58.5% Time series [7th of 29]
Parental leave > Paid paternity leave
Law 755 (2002) appended a paragraph to Article 236 of the Labor Code to indicate that fathers have a leave of 4-8 days. (edward gonzalez-acosta, The New School)
Regulation 59 [44th of 123]
Unemployment rate 11.2% Time series [13th of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 13.7 % Time series [10th of 101]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required 14 days
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 56,000,000 $ Time series [78th of 149]

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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; Economic activity rate and economically active population, by sex, thirteen age groups, 1950-2010 (ILO estimates and projections) are data from the International Labour Union (ILO). Source details: ILO, Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, fourth edition, diskette database (Geneva, 1997). The latest set of estimates and projections covering the period 1950-2010 (4th edition) was released by ILO in December 1996. These data are updated every five-ten years by ILO and a new set of these data is in preparation; World Development Indicators database; calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Wikipedia: Parental leave ; The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference.; Wikipedia: Vacation

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Colombia, Republic of Colombia, Republica de Colombia, columbia

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