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 Employed population (Series 1998 - No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Employed population (Series 1998 - No.) by Sex and Economic activity (Section - CAE Rev. 3); Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Labour force survey
First available period 2008
Last available period 2010
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Sex
  • Economic activity (Section - CAE Rev. 3)
Concepts
  • ECONOMIC ACTIVITY:  Combination of resources such as labour, raw materials, equipment, etc., are joined, leading to the creation of specific goods or services. Regardless of the factors of production integrating the good or service produced, all activities generically imply an input of products (goods or services), a production process and an output of products (goods or services).
  • LOCAL UNIT:  An enterprise or part thereof (e.g. a workshop, factory, warehouse, office, mine or depot) situated in a geographically identified place. At or from this place economic activity is carried out for which ' save for certain exceptions ' one or more persons work (even if only part-time) for one and the same enterprise.
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • 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.
  • 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).
Formule Estimated value
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  3
Observations
Last update date 31/07/2017


information presented in 9/7/2025