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North America > United States > Labor

AMERICAN LABOR STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Agricultural workers > Female 1% [70th of 77]
Days off work 163 days [4th of 20]
Employment in agriculture > % of total employment 1.6 % Time series [54th of 94]
Female decision makers 45% [1st of 67]
force, total 155,462,400 Time series [3rd of 184]
Gender division of housework 2.26 [1st of 13]
Hours worked 1,792 hours [3rd of 9]
Labor force 153,100,000 Time series [3rd of 132]
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
Strikes 60 [11th of 27]
Trade union membership 13% [17th of 18]
Unemployment 5% [11th of 18]
Unemployment gender ratio 105% [17th of 30]
Unemployment rate 4.6% Time series [64th of 107]
Unemployment, total > % of total labor force 5.5 % Time series [56th of 101]
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.
Work Time > More than 40 hours 67.6% [2nd of 18]
Working time to buy a car 1,459 hours [8th of 16]
Working time to buy a television set 15 hours [13th of 15]
Youth unemployment 9.3% [19th 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; 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);

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United States, United States of America, usa, America, The United States, u.s.

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