FACTOID # 3: In Switzerland, the average person has to work for 102 minutes to buy a kilogram of beef - one of the longest times in the developed world. On the other hand, they only have work 14 hours to buy a refrigerator.
 
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Europe > Norway > Labor

NORWEGIAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 2% [63rd of 77]
Days off work 239 days [3rd of 20]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 11.17 [134th of 162]
Female decision makers 25% [47th of 67]
Female economic activity growth 8% [48th of 156]
Long term unemployment 0.2% [27th of 27]
Service workers > Male 61% [17th of 79]
Strikes 135 [5th of 27]
Temporary employment share 9.7% [16th of 26]
Unemployment 3.5% [16th of 18]
Unemployment gender ratio 88% [26th of 30]
Working time to buy a car 1,517 hours [6th of 16]
Working time to buy a refrigerator 18 hours [13th of 15]
Working time to buy a television set 22 hours [10th of 15]
Working time to buy beef 61 minutes [9th of 16]
Working time to buy bread 8 minutes [11th of 16]
Working time to buy chicken 23 minutes [7th of 16]
Working time to buy fish 44 minutes [11th of 15]
Working time to buy milk 4 minutes [9th of 16]
Youth unemployment 10.2% [17th 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);

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Norway, Kingdom of Norway, Kongeriket Norge, Norge

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