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Employment rate from 55 to 64 years of age. By sex

Employment rate from 55 to 64 years of age. By sex Total
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
2023 65.3 59.5 63.9
2022 61.2 57.7 62.3
2021 60.0 55.8 60.4
2020 59.5 54.7 59.0
2019 58.1 53.8 58.6
2018 56.3 52.2 57.2
2017 54.3 50.5 55.5
2016 54.1 49.1 53.5
2015 50.6 46.9 51.4
2014 48.7 44.3 49.7
2013 47.5 43.2 47.9
2012 48.1 43.9 46.4
2011 49.4 44.5 45.0
2010 48.6 43.5 43.6
2009 50.1 44.0 43.2
2008 54.1 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2007 51.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2006 51.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2005 48.7 (b) Break in time series .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2004 45.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2003 47.5 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2002 42.8 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
2001 42.6 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: %.
Source Catalonia: Idescat. Source Spain and European Union: Eurostat.
Note: In April 2024, Idescat reviewed the results of Catalonia of the Economically Active Population Survey for the years 2021-2023 with the new population base derived from the 2021 Population and Housing Census.
(b) Break in time series.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: April 26, 2024.

EPA

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Economically Active Population Survey (EPA).

Methodological note

The employment rate of older workers is calculated by dividing the number of persons aged 55 to 64 in employment by the total population of the same age group.

Employed persons are all persons aged 15 years and more and who did any work for pay, wage, business profit or family gain during the reference week.

The indicator is based on the EU Labour Force Survey. The survey covers the entire population living in private households and excludes those in collective households such as boarding houses, halls of residence and hospitals. The employed population consists of those persons who during the reference week did any work for pay, wage, business profit or family gain for at least one hour, or were not working but had jobs from which they were temporarily absent.

In the case of Catalonia and Spain, the data com from the INE's Labour Force Survey. In this sphere, the active population (numerator) is aged 16 or more.

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