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   Labour market
 (thousands of units, annual averages)
 
     2012    2011    2010    2009    2008    2007    2006    2005    2004    2003
Population of working age1 7,254e 7,225 7,180 7,124 7,074 7,012 6,942 6,879 6,835 6,805
Labour force2 5,190   5,168 5,129 5,086 5,044 4,992 4,975 4,933 4,852 4,769
Employment                    
  National employment3
4,630   4,622 4,562 4,531 4,539 4,460 4,387 4,337 4,275 4,231
  Frontier workers (balance)
77   77 79 78 78 77 76 73 71 70
  Domestic employment
4,553   4,545 4,483 4,453 4,461 4,383 4,311 4,264 4,204 4,161
  Self-employed persons
742   736 726 720 716 706 699 695 692 689
  Employees
3,812   3,809 3,757 3,732 3,746 3,677 3,612 3,569 3,512 3,472
  Breakdown by branches of activity
                   
  Agriculture, forestry and fishing
20   20 20 19 18 17 17 18 18 18
  Industry and energy
557   564 566 585 611 611 612 616 621 633
  Construction
219   219 216 215 213 208 201 192 189 189
  Services
3,015   3,006 2,956 2,914 2,904 2,842 2,783 2,744 2,685 2,632
  Wholesale and retail trade, transport, accomodation and food service activities
854   856 849 847 853 841 825 821 808 800
  Information and communication
96   95 95 97 97 95 92 90 88 88
  Financial and insurance activities
129   129 129 130 131 134 133 132 132 133
  Real estate activities
20   20 19 19 18 17 17 19 18 18
  Professional, scientific and technical activities; administrative and support service activities
485   483 459 437 446 419 394 373 357 343
  Public administration, defence and education
799   803 802 795 781 771 764 759 745 730
  Human health and social work activities
485   473 458 439 425 413 402 391 379 369
  Arts, entertainment and recreation; other service activities
148   147 145 150 153 152 156 159 158 152
  Total
3,812   3,809 3,757 3,732 3,746 3,677 3,612 3,569 3,512 3,472
Unemployment4 5 560   546 567 555 505 532 588 596 577 538
1 Men and women aged 15 to 64.
2 Sum of national employment and unemployment.
3 Domestic employment plus balance of incoming and outgoing frontier-zone workers.
4 Unemployed job-seekers, consisting of wholly unemployed persons receiving benefit excluding older unemployed persons and other compulsorily or voluntarily registered job-seekers.
5 Official unemployment statistic taking account of the changes made by FOREM, from November 2001 onwards, in the method of recording job-seekers, in order to bring it into line with that followed by the VDAB.
 
Sources : NEO, FPS ELSD, NAI


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