Metadata

On this page you will find main metadata related with the indicator you have selected.
Other metadata is also available, on the Metada System website, through next button Metadata System

 

 Employed population (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Employed population (No.) by Place of residence (at the date of Census 2011), Sex, Age group and Occupational status; Decennial
Regularity Decennial
Source Statistics Portugal, Population and housing census - 2011
First available period 2011
Last available period 2011
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
  • Sex
  • Age group
  • Occupational status
Concepts
  • EMPLOYED:  Person aged 15 years or over who during the reference period was in one of the following situations: 1) worked for at least one hour for a wage or salary, in cash or in kind; 2) had a formal attachment to his/her job, but was not at work, temporarily; 3) had an enterprise, but was not at work, temporarily, for any specific reason; 4) was in early retirement, but working in the reference period.
  • ENTERPRISE:  Legal entity (natural or legal person) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • EMPLOYMENT STATUS:  Dependent or independent relationship of an active person in the practice of the profession, according to the economic risks involved and to the nature of his/her control within the enterprise.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • AGE GROUP:  The age interval in years to which a person belongs at the time of reference.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations Count
Last update date 20/11/2012


information presented in 1/7/2025