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LABO01: Employed aged 15-64 (1000 persons) by reporting country, activity, sex and time

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6/25/2025
1000 persons
5/19/2021
Ålands statistik- och utredningsbyrå (ÅSUB) [AR007].
Eurostat [lfsa_egan2] (Denmark, EA, EU, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden).
Statistics Faroe Islands [STF01010].
StatBank Greenland [AREBFB02].
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Employed persons are persons aged 15 and over who performed work, even for just one hour per week, for pay, profit or family gain during the reference week or were not at work but had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent because of, for instance, illness, holidays, industrial dispute, education or training. Due to rounding totals might not correspond fully to totals resulting from summing up values.

Data is to a large extent collected from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) which is an inquiry directed to households, designed to obtain information on the labour market and related issues through a series of personal interviews. LFS adopted a new methodology from 2021 onwards, leading to a break in time series for all countries in 2021. For more information regarding the new methodology and its implications, see this article.

There are additional breaks in time series and some points show low reliability for the Eurostat-sources. Please refer to Eurostat (table: lfsa_egan2) and related metadata for more information.

For key figures on employment and unemployment, please see matrix WORK02. 'Total - NACE activities' may differ to the total number of employed persons in WORK02 for Greenland and the Faroe Islands due to the use of different age spans and data sources.

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Faroe Islands

According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) persons in employment are those of working age who, during a short reference period, were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit. This is comprised ofa) employed persons 'at work', who worked for at least one hour during the reference period (often set to one week); andb) employed persons 'not at work' due to temporary absence (such as shift work, flex time, compensatory leave for overtime, parental leave or illness).The source to employment numbers are monthly wages in cash paid by an employer to an employee through the pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) tax system. In accordance with the international standards, a monthly wage threshold is set at 4 times the hourly minimumwage+holidaypay from the collective agreement between the Faroese Worker's Union (FA) and the Faroese Employers Association (FEA). Thus, if the montly wage received is below the mark, the person is not coinsidered an employee that month. The Faroese Safety Authority states that children under the age of 13 cannot be employed, which thus is set to be the minimum age threshold.In accordance with the above mentioned an employee is set to be a person at age 13 or above, who in the relevant month received a wage of minimum one hour a week or more through the pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) tax system. The annual figure is based on the monthly figure for November.

Finland

Includes Åland.

Åland

Data as of December 31 the previous year.

EA

EA refers to the euro area, with a fixed area composition of the current 20 countries (from 2023).

EU

From June 2020: EU refers to EU27_2020, which is the European Union with a fixed area composition of the current 27 countries.

activity

Total - NACE activities

NACE Rev. 2 (from 2008).