Type of indicator

Sectoral

Indicator C13

Employment by economic activity

Definition

The indicator gives total employment in agriculture, forestry, the food industry and in tourism in absolute terms and also as a share of total employment.

The absolute change and the annual growth of employment at national level are also calculated in general as a three-year average. If the available data allow, the calculation of five-year averages is also possible.

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the main data source for the domain employment. The EU LFS is a large household sample survey providing quarterly results on labour participation of people aged 15 years and over (16 years and over in Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom, 15-74 years in Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Finland, Sweden and Denmark).

In the Eurostat LFS database (according to the NACE rev.2 divisions) agriculture corresponds to "crop and animal production, hunting and related activities" (A01), while forestry means "forestry and logging" (A02), the food industry is equal to "manufacture of food products" (C10) and "manufacture of beverages" (C11) and "manufacture of tobacco products" (C12), tourism corresponds to "accommodation" (I55) and "food and beverage service activities" (I56).

This indicator shows employment figures for 2 sub-indicators: 

Unit of measurement

1: 1000 persons 

2: 1000 persons and % of total employment 

Data source

Eurostat – Labour Force Survey

References/location of the data

Eurostat website, Labour Force Survey: lfsa_egan2  and  lfsa_egan22d

Regional data: lfst_r_lfe2en2 for totals; employment by economic activity on special request to Eurostat

Data collection level

EU, national (NUTS 0) and regional (NUTS 1 and 2)

Frequency

Regional data at NUTS 2 level are published as annual averages of quarterly data. 

The calculation of the indicator is made on a yearly basis.

Delay

1 year

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