Employment By Activites And Status (ALFS)

The “Employment by activites and status (ALFS)” dataset is a subset of the Annual Labour Force Statistics database 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 dataset 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. It also shows the number of employees broken down by economic activities (ISIC Rev. 4).

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