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Europe > Portugal > Labor

PORTUGUESE LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 14% [23rd of 77]
Days off work 11 days [16th of 20]
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus 16.71 [119th of 162]
Employees, industry, female > % of female employment 20.5 % Time series [19th of 86]
Employees, services, female > % of female employment 66 % Time series [55th of 86]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 12.5 % Time series [40th of 94]
Female decision makers 32% [25th of 67]
force with tertiary education > % of total 9.4 % Time series [38th of 52]
force, total 5,563,768 Time series [66th of 184]
Labor force 5,618,000 Time series [52nd of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 10%, industry 30%, services 60%
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 30% Time series [5th of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 60% Time series [8th of 29]
Long term unemployment 1.7% [14th of 27]
Strikes 20 [20th of 27]
Unemployment gender ratio 159% [6th of 30]
Unemployment rate 8% Time series [29th of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 6.7 % Time series [50th of 101]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 1,151,000,000 $ Time series [28th of 149]
Youth unemployment 8.6% [21st 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; 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; 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;

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Portugal, Portuguese Republic, Republica Portuguesa

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