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A recent survey from Eurostat, the EU's statistical arm, shows that the percentage of employees who regularly work on Sunday slightly increased between 1992 and 2000 whilst the figures for Saturday working remained constant. Perhaps not surprisingly there were large variations between Member States. In Spain and Italy over a quarter of workers of both sexes worked on Saturdays while in Belgium less than 5% did so. The findingswere broken down by sex and showed significant gender differences between countries. Over the whole EU women were more likely to regularly work at the weekend than men: about 5% more do on Saturdays and 1% more on Sundays. However in Greece men were more likely to be at work on both days. When occasional work was taken into consideration the United Kingdom showed the greatest gender gap with far more men than women working 'sometimes' at the weekend.
Percentage of employees usually working at the weekend in 2000 | ||||
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ON SATURDAYS |
ON SUNDAYS | ||
Country |
Men |
Women |
Men |
Women |
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Belgium |
4.2 |
5.4 |
1.8 |
1.9 |
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Luxembourg |
11.6 |
21.7 |
5.3 |
6.7 |
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Sweden |
13.4 |
23.2 |
13.2 |
21.0 |
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Germany |
16.6 |
21.9 |
9.1 |
10.0 |
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France |
17.6 |
23.6 |
6.6 |
6.8 |
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Finland |
17.8 |
21.6 |
12.6 |
14.6 |
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Denmark |
19.5 |
26.6 |
14.8 |
20.3 |
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Austria |
20.2 |
26.1 |
12.1 |
10.8 |
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EU15 |
21.3 |
24.2 |
9.9 |
10.7 |
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Portugal |
21.4 |
19.2 |
9.4 |
9.7 |
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Ireland |
22.3 |
19.8 |
10.9 |
9.8 |
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Netherlands |
24.3 |
29.1 |
13.7 |
17.7 |
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Greece |
25.0 |
21.5 |
8.2 |
5.4 |
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UK |
25.4 |
23.8 |
13.1 |
14.1 |
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Spain |
27.6 |
30.3 |
11.9 |
11.4 |
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Italy |
28.7 |
31.7 |
7.4 |
5.7 |
Eurostat has published its third annual report on the social situation in the European Union. It provides a mass of information on topics like poverty, geographical mobility, social protection spending, living conditions and social participation. From a 150 page document the European Review can only pick out a few prominent indicators which we publish below.
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Country |
Men |
Women |
Men |
Women |
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Finland |
8.0 |
9.8 |
10.0 |
82.0 |
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Denmark |
10.0 |
4.7 |
12.0 |
90.0 |
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Sweden |
13.4 |
5.9 |
8.0 |
82.0 |
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Luxembourg |
12.0 |
2.4 |
17.0 |
83.0 |
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Netherlands |
12.0 |
3.0 |
17.0 |
79.0 |
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Austria |
13.0 |
3.7 |
11.0 |
79.0 |
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Belgium |
16.0 |
7.0 |
12.0 |
93.0 |
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Germany |
16.0 |
7.9 |
15.0 |
81.0 |
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Ireland |
17.0 |
4.2 |
19.0 |
80.0 |
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EU15 |
18.0 |
8.2 |
20.0 |
84.0 |
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France |
18.0 |
9.5 |
13.0 |
88.0 |
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Spain |
19.0 |
14.1 |
28.0 |
86.0 |
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Italy |
20.0 |
10.5 |
29.0 |
91.0 |
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Portugal |
20.0 |
4.1 |
43.0 |
94.0 |
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UK |
21.0 |
5.5 |
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94.0 |
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Greece |
22.0 |
11.1 |
17.0 |
87.0 |
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