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European Union Labour force survey - Annual employment rates 2015

Author: Håvard Hungnes Lien (Eurostat, Labour market and lifelong learning)

The employment rate tells us what proportion of the adult population has a paid job (or, more technically, is an employed person). The pay can be in cash or in kind, and the job can be as an employee, as self-employed, or as a family worker. As gainful employment in most cases is the main basis for a sufficient living standard for each person, the employment rate tells us something about the social and economic conditions on individual level in a country. It also describes to what extent the human resources of a country are utilised for economic purposes, and thereby also provides key macroeconomic information.

The source for the employment rate calculation is the labour force survey (LFS). The results from the survey currently cover all European Union member states, the EFTA member states of Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, as well as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Turkey. The survey is based on the same target populations and uses the same definitions in all countries, which means that the results are comparable between the countries. Technical and methodological information is available in the article EU labour force survey - methodology. The LFS is carried out by the national statistics institutes, which send micro data to Eurostat, which again publishes quarterly and annual results for all countries and the EU average.

The employment rate is one of the main indicators of the LFS, and one of the headline indicators under the EU2020 Strategy.

Breakdowns are available for several different age groups (15-64; 15-24; 20-64; 25-54; 55-64) and by sex and by country, per quarter and for annual averages. The full set of updated tables is available at (lfsi_emp_a).

Unless otherwise specified, this article refers to the annual average employment rate of the 20-64 age group.

Most of the EU member states have set targets for what the employment rate should be in 2020, as part of the EU2020 Strategy. This article will also present these national targets in comparison to the current employment rates.

The article on Labour market and Labour force survey (LFS) statistics presents a series of other annual results of the LFS. For deeper insight into the labour market, this article should also be read together with Unemployment statistics and Underemployment and potential additional labour force statistics.

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Main statistical findings

Figure 1: Annual average employment rates for all countries, persons aged 20-64, 2002 - 2015. Per cent. National EU2020 employment rate targets. Per cent.
Source: Eurostat (lfsi_emp_a) and EU2020 national targets

When considering the time series in Figure 1 (2002 - 2015) it is clear that the crisis hit countries very differently. We can divide them into four groups: no particular effect; clear negative effect; clear positive effect; negative effect during the crisis years, with subsequent recovery.

In the first group we find Italy (59 % in 2002 and 60% in 2015 needs update), Romania (63% to 66%), Slovakia (64 to 66), Belgium (65 to 67), Slovenia (68 to 68) and . . . . .

in the second group (clear negative effect, with no recovery) we find Greece (63 to 53), Spain (63 to 60)

A few countries have had a steady employment rate growth over the whole period of 2002 - 2015, among which Germany is the most notable (a quite remarkable increase from 68 to 78) . malta, poland,

latvia, lithuania, estonia for fall and then recovery

It is also easy to see that the national targets are in many cases markedly higher than what the employment rate has been over the last several years.

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