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Europe > United Kingdom > Labor

Agricultural workers > Female 1% [73rd of 77]
Days off work 21 days [14th of 20]
Female decision makers 33% [21st of 67]
force, total 30,644,970 Time series [17th of 184]
Gender division of housework 2.11 [6th of 13]
Hours worked 1,673 hours [5th of 9]
Labor force > By occupation
agriculture 1.5%, industry 19.1%, services 79.5%
Long term unemployment 1.5% [15th of 27]
Strikes 22 [18th of 27]
Trade union membership 29% [10th of 18]
Unemployment 5.3% [9th of 18]
Unemployment gender ratio 79% [29th of 30]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 4.6 % Time series [65th of 101]
Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required
20 calendar days, plus 8 bank holidays
Work Time > More than 40 hours 49.8% [9th of 18]
Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, paid > US$ 3,087,000,000 $ Time series [14th of 149]
Working time to buy a car 956 hours [14th of 16]
Working time to buy a television set 28 hours [7th of 15]
Working time to buy beef 52 minutes [10th of 16]
Youth unemployment 11.8% [16th of 30]

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SOURCES: ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Key Indicators of the Labour Market 2001-2002. February 2002; OECD; calculated on the basis of occupational data from ILO (International Labour Organization). 2002. Laboursta Database. February 2002; World Development Indicators database; 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; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development). 2001. Employment Outlook. Paris; 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: United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, britain, great britain, united kingdom of great britain and northern irela, united king., The United Kingdom

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