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 Employment rate (Series 1998 - %)
Characteristic Description
Name Employment rate (Series 1998 - %) by Place of residence (NUTS - 2002) and Urban areas typology; Annual
Regularity Annual
Source Statistics Portugal, Labour force survey
First available period 1998
Last available period 2010
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (NUTS - 2002)
  • Urban areas typology
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).
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  The persons who regardless of the fact that at the moment of observation ' 0:00 a.m. of the reference day ' are present or absent in a given housing unit, this unit being where they live during most of the year with their family, or where they have all or most of their belongings.
  • EMPLOYMENT RATE (population aged 15 years old and over):  A rate that defines the ratio between the employed population and the working age population (population aged 15 years old and over).
  • PREDOMINANTLY RURAL AREA:  Parish not classified either as APU or as AMU.
  • MEDIUM URBAN AREA:  Parish that fulfills, at least, one of the following requirements: 1) the higher value of the average between the weight of population in the parish's total population and of the weight of the area in the parish's total area corresponds to urban space, provided that the weight of the area in predominantly rural space surpasses 50% of the parish's total area; 2) the higher value of the average between the weight of population in the paris's total population and of the weight of the area in the paris's total area corresponds to urban space, provided that the weight of the area in predominantly rural space doesn't surpass 50% of the paris's total area; 3) the parish is the location of the municipal council and has a population equal to or below 5 000 inhabitants; 4) the parish includes, totally or partially, a locality with a population of 2 000 or more inhabitants and less than 5 000 inhabitants, being the weight of the population in the parishs total population or in the locality's total population equal to or higher than 50%.
  • PREDOMINANTLY URBAN AREA:  Parish that fulfills, at least, one of the following requirements: 1) the higher value of the average between the weight of the population in the parish¿s total population and the weight of the area in the parish¿s total area corresponds to urban space, provided that the weight of the area in predominantly rural space doesn¿t surpass 50% of the parish¿s total area; 2) the parish is the location of the municipal council and has a population of more than 5 000 inhabitants; 3) the parish includes, totally or partially, a locality with a population of 5 000 or more inhabitants, being the weight of the population in the parish¿s total population or in the locality¿s total population equal to or higher than 50%.
Formule (Employed population/ Resident population with 15 and more years old)*100
Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 23/12/2015


information presented in 17/7/2024