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Europe > Switzerland > Labor

SWISS LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 4% [45th of 77]
Days off work 1 days [20th of 20]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 3.9 % Time series [54th of 94]
Female decision makers 22% [55th of 67]
force, total 4,192,487 Time series [78th of 184]
Labor force 3,954,000 Time series [70th of 132]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 4.6%, industry 26.3%, services 69.1%
Labor force > By occupation > Industry 23.7% Time series [12th of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services 72.5% Time series [5th of 29]
Strikes 2 [24th of 27]
Trade union membership 22% [16th of 18]
Unemployment 2% [18th of 18]
Unemployment gender ratio 136% [11th of 30]
Unemployment rate 2.8% Time series [82nd of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 4.3 % Time series [68th of 101]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required 28 days
Work Time > More than 40 hours 66.9% [3rd of 18]
Working time to buy a car 614 hours [16th of 16]
Working time to buy a television set 22 hours [8th of 15]
Youth unemployment 4.8% [28th of 30]

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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; OECD; 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; 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);

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Switzerland, Swiss Confederation, Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Confederation Suisse, Confederazione Svizzera, Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera

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