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Agricultural workers > Female	1%		[73rd of 77]
Days off work	21 days		[14th of 20]
DEFINITION: Number of days not worked for every 1000 salaried employees. Selected OECD countries only. Data for 2000.
SOURCE: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002
Female decision makers	33%		[21st 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: OECD
force, total	30,644,970		[17th 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: calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002
Gender division of housework	2.11		[6th of 13]
DEFINITION: Gender Division of Labour Index, 1994 Range = 1.00 (female does all) through 2.50 (equality) to 5.00 (male does all).
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Hours worked	1,673 hours		[5th of 9]
DEFINITION: Number of hours worked in 2003; average of all people in employment. Note that different nations use very different practices and definitions in this data field, so comparisons such as this table are tentative at best.
SOURCE: Jeanne A. Batalova and Philip N. Cohen, 'Premarital Cohabitation and Housework: Couples in Cross-National Perspective', Journal of Marriage and Family 64, August 2002, p.748
Labor force > By occupation agriculture 1.5%, industry 19.1%, services 79.5%
DEFINITION: Component parts of the labor force by occupation.		View time series
SOURCE: OECD
Long term unemployment	1.5%		[15th 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
Strikes	22		[18th of 27]
DEFINITION: Strikes five-year average in days not worked per 1000 employees (1996-2000)
SOURCE: OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook. Paris
Trade union membership	29%		[10th of 18]
DEFINITION: Union members as % of all employees. Figures are for 2000.
SOURCE: OECD
Unemployment	5.3%		[9th of 18]
DEFINITION: Unemployed as proportion of the total labour force. Data for 2000-2002.
SOURCE: Figures are from the OECD. The figures are from EIRO for France, Ireland and Italy
Unemployment gender ratio	79%		[29th of 30]
DEFINITION: Female unemployment rate as a % of the male unemployment rate.
SOURCE: OECD Historical Statistics
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force	4.6 %		[65th 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 20 calendar days, plus 8 bank holidays
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Work Time > More than 40 hours	49.8%		[9th of 18]
DEFINITION: Percentage of persons in employment working more than 40 hours/week. Data is for 2000.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Vacation
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$	3,087,000,000 $		[14th 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: ILO, Key Indicators
Working time to buy a car	956 hours		[14th of 16]
DEFINITION: Hours worked by average worker to buy a car. Indicative of the purchasing power of the currency of the country.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Working time to buy a television set	28 hours		[7th of 15]
DEFINITION: Hours worked by average worker to buy a television set. Indicative of the purchasing power of the currency of the country.
SOURCE: International Metalworkers' Federation, The Purchasing Power of Working Time 2002: An International Comparison of Average Net Hourly Earnings 2001 (International Metalworkers' Federation, Geneva, 2002)
Working time to buy beef	52 minutes		[10th of 16]
DEFINITION: Number of minutes worked by average worker to buy one kilo of beef. The comparison of income levels only becomes meaningful if the cost of buying the necessities and luxuries of life is also considered.
SOURCE: International Metalworkers' Federation, The Purchasing Power of Working Time 2002: An International Comparison of Average Net Hourly Earnings 2001 (International Metalworkers' Federation, Geneva, 2002)
Youth unemployment	11.8%		[16th of 30]
DEFINITION: Youth unemployment rate
SOURCE: International Metalworkers' Federation, The Purchasing Power of Working Time 2002: An International Comparison of Average Net Hourly Earnings 2001 (International Metalworkers' Federation, Geneva, 2002)

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