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Agricultural workers > Female
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1% |
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[70th of 77]
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Days off work
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163 days |
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[4th of 20]
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Employment in agriculture > % of total employment
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1.6 %
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[54th of 94]
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Female decision makers
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45% |
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[1st of 67]
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force, total
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155,462,400
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[3rd of 184]
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Gender division of housework
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2.26 |
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[1st of 13]
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Hours worked
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1,792 hours |
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[3rd of 9]
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Labor force
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153,100,000 |
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[3rd of 132]
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Labor force > By occupation
farming, forestry, and fishing 0.7%, manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts 22.9%, managerial, professional, and technical 34.9%, sales and office 25%, other services 16.5%; note: figures exclude the unemployed |
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Strikes
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60 |
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[11th of 27]
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Trade union membership
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13% |
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[17th of 18]
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Unemployment
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5% |
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[11th of 18]
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Unemployment gender ratio
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105% |
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[17th of 30]
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Unemployment rate
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4.6% |
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[64th of 107]
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Unemployment, total > % of total labor force
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5.5 %
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[56th of 101]
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Vacation > Minimum vacation time around the world > legally required
Not required, but 7-21 days is standard for most employers. Typically, 10 working days with 8 national holidays. |
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Work Time > More than 40 hours
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67.6% |
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[2nd of 18]
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Working time to buy a car
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1,459 hours |
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[8th of 16]
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Working time to buy a television set
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15 hours |
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[13th of 15]
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Youth unemployment
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9.3% |
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[19th of 30]
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... View all Labor stats
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; 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; 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);
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