Quantifying how many people are employed in the forest sector is not a straightforward exercise. Nonetheless, the ILO, FAO and the Thünen-Institute of Forestry joined forces to estimate the global workforce in forest-related activities and provide insights on labour market trends in this sector.
Forest sector employs 33 million around the world, according to new global estimates Read More »
Concise description of concepts and definitions, uses, sources and limitations of indicators in the Worker and Sector Profiles, including definitions for the groups of occupations and/or sectors recombined to create these profiles.
Worker and sector profiles (PROFILES database) Read More »
Concise description of concepts and definitions, uses, sources and limitations for labour force statistics in various databases (LFS, STLFS, RURBAN).
Labour Force Statistics (LFS, STLFS, RURBAN databases) Read More »
Tech’s persistent gender gap is well documented, but it might surprise you to learn that the gulf transcends national wealth and development lines.
Tech’s persistent gender gap Read More »
ISIC is a standard classification of economic activities arranged so that entities can be classified according to the activity they carry out.
International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) Read More »
Learn about employment patterns across sectors and occupations in Where are the jobs?, the second issue of our new series Spotlight on work statistics.
Where are the jobs? Read More »
This brief casts light on the trends in employment by sector and occupation, by focusing first on the broad sectors and occupations at the global level before moving on to analysing regional patterns.
Where are the jobs? Read More »
