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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]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 3.95 [155th of 162]
Female decision makers 27% [37th of 67]
Female economic activity growth -1% [124th of 156]
Long term unemployment 2.4% [12th of 27]
Service workers > Male 52% [39th of 79]
Strikes 55 [12th of 27]
Temporary employment share 17.6% [6th of 26]
Unemployment 9.5% [2nd of 18]
Unemployment gender ratio 116% [15th of 30]
Working time to buy a television set 20 hours [12th of 15]
Working time to buy beef 41 minutes [14th of 16]
Working time to buy bread 8 minutes [10th of 16]
Working time to buy chicken 14 minutes [13th of 16]
Working time to buy fish 24 minutes [14th of 15]
Working time to buy milk 3 minutes [11th of 16]
Workplace safety > Dangerous Countries to Work In the EU > Fatalities 29 [12th of 15]
Workplace safety in the EU > Fatalities 1.9 per 100,000 employees [12th of 15]
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; 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; 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; OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook. Paris; OECD; 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; International Metalworkers' Federation, The Purchasing Power of Working Time 2002: An International Comparison of Average Net Hourly Earnings 2001 (International Metalworkers' Federation, Geneva, 2002); Wikipedia: Workplace safety ;

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

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