NationMaster - Swiss Labor statistics

Agricultural workers > Female	4%	[45th of 77]
Days off work	1 days	[20th of 20]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment	3.9 %	[54th of 94]
Female decision makers	22%	[55th of 67]
force, total	4,192,487	[78th of 184]
Labor force	3,954,000	[70th of 132]
Labor force > By occupation agriculture 4.6%, industry 26.3%, services 69.1%
Labor force > By occupation > Industry	23.7%	[12th of 29]
Labor force > By occupation > Services	72.5%	[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%	[82nd of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force	4.3 %	[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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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 for it.

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