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 Employees (Series 1998 - No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Employees (Series 1998 - No.) by Sex, Economic sector (CAE Rev. 3) and Employment contract; Quarterly
Regularity Quarterly
Source Statistics Portugal, Labour force survey
First available period 1st Quarter 2008
Last available period 4th Quarter 2010
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Quarter)
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Sex
  • Economic sector (CAE Rev. 3)
  • Employment contract
Concepts
  • 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).
  • INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT:  contract by which a person undertakes to provide intellectual or manual activity to another person under the latter's authority and direction in return for pay.
  • 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).
  • DEPENDENT EMPLOYMENT:  Employment for which the holder has an explicit or implicit contract, whether or not subject to written form, which entitles him/her to basic remuneration that is not directly dependent on the income of the unit for which he works.
  • COLLECTIVE LABOUR AGREEMENT:  Collective agreement between one or more employer's associations and one or more trade union organisations.
  • EMPLOYEE:  Person who carries out an activity under the authority and direction of another under the terms of an employment contract, whether or not subject to written form, which entitles him/her to a remuneration that does not depend on the results of the economic unit for which he/she works.
Formule Estimated value
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  3
Observations
Last update date 09/05/2014


information presented in 17/7/2024