Employment rate
The employment rate or employment rate denotes the proportion of employed persons in the population or a population group. Full-time or part-time employees are counted equally, as are people whose employment relationship is suspended at the time of the survey, for example due to parental leave . According to the international definition of the employment rate, people are also included in the rate who worked at least one hour in the previous week of the calculation period. The organization for economic cooperation and development reports the employment rate or employment rate for all member states as time series on the Internet. The employment rate or employment rate is determined through a statistical survey of a certain number of people and is also reported regularly by Eurostat for the EU member states .
Demarcation
Depending on the reference population, a distinction is made between:
- Gross employment rate: Share of employed persons in relation to total resident population .
- Standardized employment rate: Proportion of employed persons in the resident population from a certain minimum age (usually 15 years).
- Net employment rate: Share of employed persons in the resident population of working age (usually 15 years up to the statutory retirement age).
Employment rate generally means the net employment rate.
If the mere number of people is not taken into account, but the number is weighted with a term corresponding to the working hours, one speaks of a full-time equivalent employment rate.
Employment rate in the Federal Republic of Germany
Employment rate (proportion of those in employment in the population of the same age) by territorial status and gender in the age group 15 to under 65. Result of the microcensus in percent (%).
(Source: Federal Statistical Office, as of July 11, 2019)
| year | Total in% |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 75.9 |
| 2017 | 75.2 |
| 2016 | 74.4 |
| 2015 | 73.8 |
| 2014 | 73.6 |
| 2013 | 73.3 |
| 2012 | 72.8 |
| 2011 | 72.5 |
| 2010 | 71.0 |
| 2009 | 70.2 |
| 2008 | 70.0 |
| 2007 | 68.9 |
| 2006 | 67.1 |
| 2005 | 65.4 |
| 2004 | 64.3 |
| 2003 | 64.9 |
| 2002 | 65.4 |
| 2001 | 65.8 |
| 2000 | 65.4 |
Demarcation
A distinction must be made between the employment rate and the employment rate , which also includes the unemployed .
criticism
The employment rate only includes the number of people who have contractually regulated employment .
The employment rate does not include, for example, (unpaid) child-rearing and care activities, in the household and in clubs. Undeclared work and any activity that is included in the narrower or broader sense of the term “ shadow economy ” is also not included in the employment rate.
Whether students, trainees etc. are included in the employment rate depends on their work status.
The employment rate or employment rate is determined through a statistical survey of a specific group of people, which may not be representative of the total population.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Development of the labor force participation of women and men in Germany. ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Gender-Datenreport , Chapter 2, 2005, BMFSFJ
- ^ Employment. International Labor Organization, April 14, 2016, accessed October 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Employment - Employment rate - OECD Data. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), accessed on October 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Employment rate by gender, age group 20-64 - Eurostat. Retrieved October 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Federal Government: Answer of the Federal Government to Small Inquiry - Printed matter 19/13748 . Ed .: German Bundestag. Berlin May 24, 2017 ( bundestag.de [PDF]).
- ↑ Employment rates 1991 to 2018. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on October 13, 2019 .
