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Number of employees by activities (ISIC Rev. 4)

<p>The dataflow "Number of employees 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).</p><p>This dataflow shows the number of employees broken down by economic activities (ISIC Rev. 4). </p><p> 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.</p><p> The professional status is defined in the International Classification by status in Employment (ICSE-1993).</p><p>Data are presented in thousands of persons, or as indices with base year 2015=100.</p><p>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.</p><p>Historical data of employment statistics defined according to <a href="https://stats.oecd.org/wbos/fileview2.aspx?IDFile=c2fdf1ac-9dba-4317-8a8d-d872f514a7d8"> ISIC Rev. 2</a> are also available from 1970 to 2014</p><p>Historical data of employment statistics defined according to <a href="https://stats.oecd.org/wbos/fileview2.aspx?IDFile=d6213fd6-d098-4f41-871b-a65fa8c05b4f"> ISIC Rev. 3</a> are available from 1983 to 2023. Data for Canada are currently only available in ISIC Rev. 3</p>