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Employment rate (08.30)

Employment rate. By sex 2023
Catalonia Spain European Union-27
Men 78.9 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Women 71.4 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Total 75.2 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Units: Percentage.
Source Catalonia: Idescat, based on the INE's Active Population Survey. 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.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: February 20, 2024. Revised series on April 26, 2024.

EPA

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

Methodological note

The indicator measures the share of the population aged 20 to 64 which is employed. Employed persons are defined as all persons who, during a reference week, worked at least one hour for pay or profit or were temporarily absent from such work.

Data stem from the EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS). In the case of Catalonia and Spain, it is in the INE's Labour Force Survey integrated.