Employment rate of persons aged 25-49 by age of youngest child and sex

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

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

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

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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

Data refer to age groups 0-2, 3-6, 7-14, 15-17.

Country: Belgium

Change in definition (2005 - 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

Only children under the age of 18 are considered. The age group 6-16 refers to 6-17, no child refers to no child under 18.

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: Ireland

Data refer to 2nd quarter of each year.

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 (1980 - 2013): Data refer to age groups 0-1 instead of 0-2; 2-4 instead of 3-5 .

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: Latvia

Change in definition (2002 - 2012): Age 17+&
39; refer to the population aged 17-18.
No child&
39; refer to data on no child or age of the youngest child 19+.

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

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: 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 methodology (Y2010): Since Y2010, the Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS) is conducted on a continuous basis over the whole year. From 1991 to 2009 the SLFS was conducted in the 2nd quarter of the year. Therefore values before 2010 refer to the 2nd quarter whereas values from 2010 onwards refer to annual averages.
- Reference period (Y1990): Data refer to Y1991.
- Territorial change (Y1980 - Y1990): In Y1980, Federal Population Census: resident population. From Y1990 and onwards, Labour Force Survey: permanent resident population