Number of Employed* by Nature of Employment (thousand)
Nature of Employment
|
1992
|
1993
|
1994
|
1995
|
1996
|
1997
|
1998
|
1999
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Employee
|
3 203.4
|
3 087.6
|
3 045.2
|
2 978.9
|
2 691.2
|
2 989.7
|
3 088.5
|
3 201.3
|
Cooperative member
|
225.0
|
134.1
|
103.3
|
84.2
|
79.0
|
68.9
|
55.8
|
42.5
|
Member of partnership
|
257.9
|
197.1
|
174.7
|
167.9
|
151.8
|
137.4
|
132.5
|
111.8
|
Individual entrepreneur
|
290.1
|
309.1
|
328.9
|
351.7
|
372.2
|
373.3
|
369.1
|
407.7
|
Assisting family member
|
49.3
|
42.4
|
40.4
|
40.1
|
40.9
|
41.0
|
28.8
|
28.2
|
Total
|
4 025.7
|
3 770.3
|
3 692.5
|
3 622.8
|
3 605.1
|
3 610.3
|
3 674.7
|
3 791.5
|
Of employees and cooperative members:
| ||||||||
Skilled workers
|
1 070.4
|
1 041.2
|
1 043.7
|
1 043.7
|
991.4
|
1 004.5
|
986.1
|
1 034.2
|
Trained workers
|
736.9
|
667.2
|
646.3
|
646.3
|
524.8
|
533.5
|
599.9
|
606.5
|
Unskilled workers
|
317.1
|
259.9
|
240.8
|
240.8
|
303.3
|
293.6
|
296.3
|
290.7
|
White-collar workers
|
1 304.0
|
1 253.4
|
1 217.7
|
1 217.7
|
1 220.7
|
1 226.9
|
1 262.0
|
1 312.4
|