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Agricultural workers > Female	5%		[44th of 77]
Compensation of employees > % of expense	9.33 %		[67th of 97]
DEFINITION: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees.		View time series
SOURCE: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002
Days off work	316 days		[2nd of 20]
DEFINITION: Number of days not worked for every 1000 salaried employees. Selected OECD countries only. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Economic activity > Men aged 65 plus	3.04		[157th of 162]
DEFINITION: Economically active population ("usually active" or "currently active" (currently active is also known as "the labour force")) comprises all persons of either sex above a specified age who furnish the supply of labour for the production of economic goods
SOURCE: OECD
Female decision makers	32%		[26th of 67]
DEFINITION: Female legislators, senior officials and managers (as % of total). Data refer to the latest year available during the period 1991-2000. Those for countries that have implemented the recent International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-88) are not strictly comparable with those for countries using the previous classification (ISCO-68).
SOURCE: 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
Female economic activity growth	11%		[40th of 156]
DEFINITION: The % change in the female economic activity rate (aged 15 and above) from 1990 to 2000.
SOURCE: calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002
force with tertiary education > % of total	27.9 %		[11th of 52]
DEFINITION: Labor force with tertiary education is the proportion of labor force that has a tertiary education, as a percentage of the total labor force.		View time series
SOURCE: 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
force, total	20,854,260		[28th of 184]
DEFINITION: Total labor force comprises people who meet the International Labour Organization definition of the economically active population: all people who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period. It includes both the employed and the unemployed. While national practices vary in the treatment of such groups as the armed forces and seasonal or part-time workers, in general the labor force includes the armed forces, the unemployed, and first-time job-seekers, but excludes homemakers and other unpaid caregivers and workers in the informal sector.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Foreign labor force	1		[20th of 23]
DEFINITION: Foreign labour force 2000
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Labor force > By occupation agriculture 5.3%, manufacturing, mining, and construction 30.1%, services 64.6%
DEFINITION: Component parts of the labor force by occupation.		View time series
SOURCE: OECD
Long term unemployment	6%		[5th of 27]
DEFINITION: Long term unemployment as a % of labour force, 2000. Long term implies 12 months or longer.
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Regulation	70		[12th of 123]
DEFINITION: This statistic is an average of "Regulation - Hiring", "Regulation - Firing", and "Regulation - Employment Conditions". Nations are listed with an Employment Laws Index between 1 and 100. The higher the index, the more the nation regulates Employment.
SOURCE: OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook. Paris
Regulation > Employment Conditions	88		[26th of 123]
DEFINITION: Nations are listed with a Conditions of Employment Index between 1 and 100. The higher the index, the more the nation regulates conditions of employment.
SOURCE: The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference.
Strikes	189		[4th of 27]
DEFINITION: Strikes five-year average in days not worked per 1000 employees (1996-2000)
SOURCE: The World Bank Group The original methodology and data come from The Regulation of Labor, by Juan Botero, Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Shleifer. When using the data, please also cite this paper as a reference
Unemployment gender ratio	212%		[2nd of 30]
DEFINITION: Female unemployment rate as a % of the male unemployment rate.
SOURCE: OECD
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force	11 %		[17th of 101]
DEFINITION: Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment. Definitions of labor force and unemployment differ by country.		View time series
SOURCE: 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
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required	30 calendar days
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$	7,733,000,000 $		[5th of 149]
DEFINITION: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees comprise current transfers by migrant workers and wages and salaries earned by nonresident workers. Workers’ remittances are classified as current private transfers from migrant workers who are residents of the host country to recipients in their country of origin. They include only transfers made by workers who have been living in the host country for more than a year, irrespective of their immigration status. Compensation of employees is the income of migrants who have lived in the host country for less than a year. Migrants’ transfers are defined as the net worth of migrants who are expected to remain in the host country for more than one year that is transferred from one country to another at the time of migration.		View time series
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Vacation
Working mothers	43		[19th of 23]
DEFINITION: Working proportion of mothers with children under 6 years old 2001
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Youth unemployment	25.5%		[5th of 30]
DEFINITION: Youth unemployment rate
SOURCE: OECD

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