Employed

A person is employed if he/she has during the survey week been in gainful employment at least one hour against wages or salary or fringe benefits, or to make profit. Employees temporarily absent from work during the survey week are also classified as employed if the reason for absence is maternity or paternity leave or own illness or the absence has lasted for under three months. A self-employed person or an unpaid worker in an enterprise of a family member is calculated in employed regardless of the length or reason for absence.

A person is employed if he/she has during the survey week been in gainful employment at least one hour against wages or salary or fringe benefits, or to make profit. Employees temporarily absent from work during the survey week are also classified as employed if the reason for absence is maternity or paternity leave or own illness or the absence has lasted for under three months, or if pay or earnings-related compensation of at least one-half of their normal pay is paid to them. A self-employed person or an unpaid worker in an enterprise of a family member is calculated in employed regardless of the length or reason for absence.

Employed persons are those who during the survey week have been gainfully employed for at least an hour for a pay or benefit in kind or for gaining profit. Those temporarily absent from work due to holiday or illness are also counted as employed. Those laid off for a fixed period (under 3 months) or those on maternity, paternity or parental leave from work are included in employed. Others absent from work for over one month without pay (e.g. conscripts, those on child home care allowance, job alternation leave or leave of absence) are not employed. The employed can be wage and salary earners, self-employed or unpaid family workers.