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Central America and the Caribbean > Dominican Republic > Labor

DOMINICAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 3% [57th of 77]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 70.63 [24th of 162]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 15.4 % Time series [36th of 86]
Employees, industry, male > % of male employment 24.1 % Time series [65th of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 82.7 % Time series [29th of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 15.9 % Time series [37th of 94]
Employment in industry > % of total employment 21.1 % Time series [59th of 94]
Female decision makers 31% [28th of 67]
Female economic activity growth 17% [21st of 156]
force with tertiary education > % of total 10.3 % Time series [33rd of 52]
force, total 3,847,696 Time series [86th of 184]
Labor force 4,027,000 Time series [68th of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 17%, industry 24.3%, services and government 58.7%
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 24.3% Time series [2nd of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 58.7% Time series [2nd of 29]
Regulation 49 [81st of 123]
Regulation > Employment Conditions 79 [54th of 123]
Unemployment rate 15.6% Time series [6th of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 18.4 % Time series [7th of 101]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 26,000,000 $ Time series [101st 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; calculated on the basis of data on the economically active population and total population from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Estimates and Projections of the Economically Active Population, 1950-2010, 4th ed., rev. 2. Database. Geneva; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; 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.; 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

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Dominican Republic, Republica Dominicana, dominican rep, dominican rep.

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