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Employed

A person is employed if he/she during the survey week has been in employment at least one hour for pay or entrepreneurial income or has worked without pay in an enterprise or on a farm owned by a family member. Persons temporarily absent from work during the survey week are also classified as employed if the reason for absence is maternity or paternity leave, parental leave, own illness, holiday or working hour arrangements or if the absence from work for some other reason lasts for at most three months.



Statistics using the definition

Validity of the definition

  • Valid

A person is employed if he/she during the survey week has been in employment at least one hour for pay or entrepreneurial income or has worked without pay in an enterprise or on a farm owned by a family member. Persons temporarily absent from work during the survey week are also classified as employed if the reason for absence is maternity or paternity leave, parental leave, own illness, holiday or working hour arrangements or if the absence lasts for under three months.



Statistics using the definition

Validity of the definition

  • 1 September 2023 - 31 October 2023

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

A person is employed if he/she has been in employment at least one hour for pay or entrepreneurial income during the survey week. Persons temporarily absent from work during the survey week are also classified as employed if the reason for absence is maternity or paternity leave, earnings-related parental leave, own illness, holiday or working hour arrangements or if the absence lasts for under three months.



Statistics using the definition

Validity of the definition

  • 1 January 2021 - 31 August 2023

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

A person is employed if he/she has during the survey week been in gainful employment at least one hour against wages or salary or fringe benefits, or to make profit. Employees temporarily absent from work during the survey week are also classified as employed if the reason for absence is maternity or paternity leave or own illness or the absence has lasted for under three months. A self-employed person or an unpaid worker in an enterprise of a family member is calculated in employed regardless of the length or reason for absence.



Statistics using the definition

Validity of the definition

  • 1 January 2009 - 31 December 2020

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

A person is employed if he/she has during the survey week been in gainful employment at least one hour against wages or salary or fringe benefits, or to make profit. Employees temporarily absent from work during the survey week are also classified as employed if the reason for absence is maternity or paternity leave or own illness or the absence has lasted for under three months, or if pay or earnings-related compensation of at least one-half of their normal pay is paid to them. A self-employed person or an unpaid worker in an enterprise of a family member is calculated in employed regardless of the length or reason for absence.



Statistics using the definition

Validity of the definition

  • 1 January 2008 - 31 December 2008

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

Employed persons are those who during the survey week have been gainfully employed for at least an hour for a pay or benefit in kind or for gaining profit. Those temporarily absent from work due to holiday or illness are also counted as employed. Those laid off for a fixed period (under 3 months) or those on maternity, paternity or parental leave from work are included in employed. Others absent from work for over one month without pay (e.g. conscripts, those on child home care allowance, job alternation leave or leave of absence) are not employed. The employed can be wage and salary earners, self-employed or unpaid family workers.



Statistics using the definition

Validity of the definition

  • 1 May 1998 - 31 December 2007

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

The employed labour force includes all persons aged 18 to 74 who were in gainful employment in the last week of the year and were not registered as unemployed job seekers in the job seeker register of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment or performing mandatory military or non-military service. Data on employment are based on the information of employment pension authorities and the tax administration.



Statistics using the definition

Validity of the definition

  • Valid

The employed labour force comprises all persons between 18-74 who were employed during the reference week and were neither registered as unemployed jobseekers at the labour exhange office nor undergoing military or non-military service. Information on employment is based on data from employment pension and tax authorities.



Validity of the definition

  • 1 January 2005 - 31 December 2005

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

The employed labour force comprises all persons between 15-74 who were employed during the reference week and were neither registered as unemployed jobseekers at the labour exhange office nor undergoing military or non-military service. Information on employment is based on data from employment pension and tax authorities.



Validity of the definition

  • 1 January 1996 - 31 December 2004

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

Source organisation

  • Tilastokeskus

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