Employment and hours worked

Date published: 15 September 2020

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) uses internationally agreed definitions for employment, unemployment and economic inactivity.

This short paper focuses on those in employment and discusses the variation in hours worked in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic, and during 2020.

Documents

• Employment and hours worked from the Labour Force Survey September 2020 Adobe PDF (133 KB)
• Figure 1: Distribution of total weekly actual hours worked, aged 16+, May-July 2019 and May-July 2020 Microsoft Excel (22 KB)
• Figure 2: Distribution of total weekly actual hours worked, aged 16-64, Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun, Jul-Sep 2020 Microsoft Excel (57 KB)
• Table 1: Reasons worked fewer hours than usual in reference week, Northern Ireland, 16+ employed Microsoft Excel (48 KB)

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