FACTOID # 12: 61.5% of Swedes work more than 40 hours per week, but just across the border in Norway only 15.8% of people work this long.
 
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Europe > Finland > Labor

FINNISH LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 4% [46th of 77]
Days off work 126 days [5th of 20]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 4.8 % Time series [38th of 94]
Female decision makers 27% [37th of 67]
force, total 2,655,549 Time series [101st of 184]
Labor force 2,675,000 Time series [82nd of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture and forestry 4.4%, industry 18.6%, construction 6%, commerce 16.3%, finance, insurance, and business services 13.9%, transport and communications 7.6%, public services 33.2%
Long term unemployment 2.4% [12th of 27]
Strikes 55 [12th of 27]
Trade union membership 76% [2nd of 18]
Unemployment 9.5% [2nd of 18]
Unemployment gender ratio 116% [15th of 30]
Unemployment rate 6.9% Time series [44th of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 8.9 % Time series [31st of 101]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required 35 days
Work Time > More than 40 hours 16% [17th of 18]
Working time to buy a car 1,681 hours [2nd of 16]
Working time to buy a television set 20 hours [12th of 15]
Working time to buy beef 41 minutes [14th of 16]
Youth unemployment 21.6% [6th 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; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook. Paris; 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);

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Finland, Republic of Finland, Suomen Tasavalta, Suomi

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