Employment rate of persons aged 25-49 by sex and number of children under 17

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Source: UNECE Statistical Database, compiled from national official sources.

Definition:
The employment rate is the share of employed persons aged 25-49 in the population of the corresponding sex and age group.
Data are reported according to the number of children under the age of 17. Children living outside the household are not considered.

General note: Data come from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) unless otherwise specified.

Country: Austria

- Break in time series (Y2021): Break in series due to implementation of the new EU-regulations in Y2021.
- Break in methodlogy (Y2004): Break in series due to change in data collection procedure.
- Change in definition (1980): Data refer to the livelihood concept.
- Reference period (1980): Data refer to 1984.

Country: Belarus

The number of children under the age of 15 is considered.

Country: Belgium

Change in definition (2003 - 2015): A child is considered as a person below 17 who lives in the household whatever the relation to the reference person may be.

Country: Croatia

Data given for 2013 onwards are calibrated according to the results of the Census 2011 and are not fully comparable with data given for previous years.

Country: Finland

The number of children under the age of 18 is considered.

Country: France

Reference area: Metropolitan France

Country: Germany

Break in methodlogy (2005): Until 2004, data refer to one reporting week. From 2005 data are annual average figures.

Country: Greece

Data refer to annual averages.

Country: Israel

Break in methodlogy (2000): In 1998: 1) Changes in the weighting method; 2) Transition to the 1995 Population Census estimates; See explanations: http://www.cbs.gov.il/www/publications/saka_change/tch_e.pdf

Country: Israel

Break in methodlogy (2001): Changes in the weighting method. See explanations: http://www.cbs.gov.il/www/saka_y/e_intro_f1_comparison-mimi.f

Country: Israel

Break in methodlogy (2009): 1) Update of the definition of the civilian labour force characteristics; 2) Transition to the 2008 Population Census estimates. See explanations: http://www.cbs.gov.il/publications11/1460/pdf/intro05_e.pdf

Country: Israel

Break in methodlogy (2012): 1) Transitiom from a quarterly to a monthly LFS; 2) Changes in the definitions of labour force characteristics (including compulsory and permanent military service into labour force). See explanations: http://www.cbs.gov.il/publications/labour_survey04/labour_f--orce_survey/answer_question_e_2012.pdf

Country: Israel

Change in definition (2005): 1) Update of the definitions of labour force characteristics; 2) Changes in the Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities; See explanations: http://www.cbs.gov.il/www/publications/saka_change/tch_e.pdf

Country: Italy

Break in methodlogy (2004): From 2004, there is a break in series due to change in survey and data collection procedure (continuous survey).

Country: Luxembourg

Reference period (1980): Reference year 1983

Country: Poland

- From Y2021, changes resulting from implementation of the common framework for social statistics, i.e. Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019 and its implementing acts, have been introduced in the Polish LFS. Due to the introduced changes the results cannot be compared with the previous periods from Y2021 onwards.Since Y2021, the data have concerned population aged 15-89 years (until Y2020, it was aged 15 and more).
- Since the third quarter of Y2012, generalization of the LFS results over the general population has been carried out with the use of the data on the population of Poland aged 15 and more obtained from the balances compiled on the basis of the Population and Housing Census 2011. Moreover, the methodological changes have been taken into account, excluding from the survey persons staying outside households for 12 months or longer (until the second quarter of Y2012, it was over 3 months). In order to maintain comparability of the time series after the introduced changes, the data for the years Y2010-Y2011 are also presented in a version including these changes; the data are not fully comparable with the results of the surveys prior to Y2010.

Country: Portugal

- Break in time series (Y2021): The values presented in this table were obtained using the wave approach strategy applied to the collection of low-frequency variables (annual, biennial or eight-yearly), adopted from the 1st quarter of Y2021 onwards. Therefore, a direct comparison with the results of the previous data series is no longer possible.
- Break in time series (Y2011): Data from 2011 onwards are not directly comparable with data for the previous years due to new data collection methods used in the Portuguese Labour Force Survey series.

Country: Republic of Moldova

Data exclude the territory of the Transnistria and municipality of Bender

Country: Romania

- Break in time series (Y2002, Y2021): Major revisions of survey definitions were done in Y2002 and 2021. Thus: data for Y2002 - Y2020 are not comparable with series published for Y1996 - Y2001. Data, beginning with Y2021, are not comparable with those published for previous periods.

Country: Russian Federation

Change in definition (2009 - 2013): Data present the population aged 15-72 years

Country: Russian Federation

Change of definition: Based of Labour Force Survey, data cover children of age groups from 0 to 17 years inclusive.

Country: Serbia

Data do not cover Kosovo and Metohija.

Country: Sweden

- Break in time series (Y2021): In Y2021 the LFS was adapted to the EU regulation (2019/1700) for social statistics, which has caused time series breaks between 2021 and previous years.
- Data source: Statistics Sweden, Labour Force Surveys.

Country: Switzerland

Break in methodlogy (2010): Change to continuous survey. As of 2010: annual averages