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Agricultural workers > Female
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6% |
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[37th of 77]
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Employment in agriculture > % of total employment
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4.4 %
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[41st of 94]
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Female decision makers
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9% |
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[63rd of 67]
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force, total
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66,592,120
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[7th of 184]
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Gender division of housework
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1.5 |
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[13th of 13]
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Hours worked
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1,801 hours |
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[2nd of 9]
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Labor force
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66,690,000 |
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[8th of 132]
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Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 4.6%, industry 27.8%, services 67.7% |
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Labor force > By occupation > Industry
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27.8% |
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[7th of 29]
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Strikes
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1 |
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[27th of 27]
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Trade union membership
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22% |
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[15th of 18]
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Unemployment
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5.1% |
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[10th of 18]
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Unemployment gender ratio
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91% |
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[24th of 30]
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Unemployment rate
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3.8% |
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[76th of 107]
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Unemployment, total > % of total labor force
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4.7 %
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[64th of 101]
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Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required
including sick leave: 18 days paid time off;
officially, five weeks (in reaction to the karoshi problem) |
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Work Time > More than 40 hours
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75.9% |
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[1st of 18]
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Working time to buy a car
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1,182 hours |
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[11th of 16]
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Working time to buy a television set
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15 hours |
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[14th of 15]
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Youth unemployment
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9.2% |
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[20th of 30]
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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; 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; OECD; 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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