Employment By Activities (ISIC Rev. 4)

The dataflow "Employment by activities (ISIC Rev.4)" is a subset of the “Employment by activites and status (ALFS)” dataset which presents annual labour force statistics for OECD member countries, Brazil and 4 geographical areas (Major Seven, Euro zone, European Union and OECD-Total).

This dataflow contains employment statistics broken down by economic activities as defined by the ISIC Rev. 4 classification and by professional status as defined by the ICSE-1993 including employees, employers and own-account workers, and unpaid family workers.

Economic activities are defined according to the Major divisions of the International standard International Classification (ISIC) Rev. 4 with the exception of the United-States wich compiled since 2003, employment data by sector following the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS); NAICS sector are then proxied to ISIC Rev. 4 and are therefore not strictly comparable with other countries’ data.

The professional status is defined in the International Classification by status in Employment (ICSE-1993). To be considered as an unpaid family worker, the hour-threshold varies from one hour to 18 hours a week.

Data are presented in thousands of persons, or as indices with base year 2015=100.

Annual data in this dataset are typically calculated as averages of infra-annual estimates. This can lead to differences with annual data published by National Statistics Institutes.

Historical data of employment statistics defined according to ISIC Rev. 2 are also available from 1970 to 2014

Historical data of employment statistics defined according to ISIC Rev. 3 are available from 1983 to 2023. Data for Canada are currently only available in ISIC Rev. 3