labour force by status in employment

Description

Labour force by status in employment for 124 countries, latest update: December 2009

Format

A data set on 124 compositions on 9 variables.

Details

• country country

• year year

• employeesW percentage female employees

• employeesM percentage male employees

• employersW percentage female employers

• employersM percentage male employers

• ownW percentage female own-account workers and contributing family workers

• ownM percentage male own-account workers and contributing family workers

• source HS: household or labour force survey. OE: official estimates. PC: population census

Author(s)

conversion to R by Karel Hron and Matthias Templ matthias.templ@tuwien.ac.at

Source

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/tab5c.htm

References

K. Hron, P. Filzmoser, K. Thompson (2012). Linear regression with compositional explanatory variables. Journal of Applied Statistics, Volume 39, Issue 5, 2012.

Examples

data(laborForce)
str(laborForce)