The tables of the statistical annex show data for all 38 OECD countries including Costa Rica, which became a Member of the OECD on 25 May 2021. Data for Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, the Russian Federation (Russia) 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 based on labour force surveys. Data for the remaining Tables L, N, O, P and Q are from a combination of survey and administrative sources. Those shown for a number of European countries in Tables B, C, D, H, I, J, K and Table M are data taken from the European Labour Force Survey (EU LFS), which are more comparable and sometime more consistent over time than national LFS results.
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 Chapter 1 of this publication.
Data and indicators shown in the 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 OECD Employment database contains both raw data and indicators. It includes longer time series and more detailed datasets by individual characteristics such as age group, gender, educational attainment and employment characteristics on the main job such as employee job tenure, part time employment, involuntary part time employment, temporary employment, duration of unemployment. The database includes more data series than those shown in this annex, such as, the distribution of employment by weekly usual hours worked intervals, potential labour force such as people marginally attached to the labour force, etc. The datasets are documented with 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 gender 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.