The tables of the statistical annex show data for all 35 OECD countries. Data for Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, the Russian Federation and South Africa are included in a number of tables.
In general, Tables A to K and Table M report annual averages of monthly and quarterly estimates, when they are available, based on labour force surveys. The remaining Tables L, N, O, P and Q are based on a combination of survey and administrative sources. Data shown for a number of European countries in Tables B, C, D, H, I, J, K and Table M are based on the European Labour Force Survey (EU LFS), which are more comparable and sometime more consistent over time than data series from national LFS.
The statistical data for Israel are supplied by and under the responsibility of the relevant Israeli authorities. The use of such data by the OECD is without prejudice to the status of the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements in the West Bank under the terms of international law.
Data on employment, unemployment and the labour force are not necessarily the same as the series used for analyses and forecasting by the OECD Economics Department that are reported in the OECD Economic Outlook and included in the online annex tables of Chapter 1 of this publication.
Most of the statistics shown in these tables can also be found in the OECD central data repository OECD.Stat (http://stats.oecd.org) accessible from the web page dedicated to employment statistics (www.oecd.org/employment/database).
The database contains both raw data and derived statistics. It contains longer time series and more detailed datasets by age group, gender, educational attainment, employee job tenure, part‑time employment, involuntary part‑time employment, temporary employment, duration of unemployment, and other series than are shown in this annex, such as, the distribution of employment by weekly usual hours worked intervals, potential labour force including people marginally attached to the labour force, etc. The datasets include information on definitions, notes and sources used by member countries. The online database also contains additional series on working time, earnings and features of institutional and regulatory environments affecting the functioning of labour markets. Among these are the following:
Annual hours worked for comparisons of trends over time.
Average gross annual wages per dependent employee in full‑time equivalent unit.
Distribution of gross earnings of full‑time workers by upper earnings decile cut‑offs and by sex to compute earnings dispersion measures.
Statutory minimum wages: levels and ratio of minimum‑to‑median wages.
Public expenditure on labour market programmes, number of beneficiaries and inflows into the labour market.
Union members and employees.
Synthetic indicators of employment protection.