Concepts
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EMPLOYMENT: Employment includes all people (employees and self-employed earners) engaged in a productive activity covered by the definition of production given by the system.
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EMPLOYEE: Those jobs where the incumbents hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts which give them a basic remuneration which is not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work.
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REFERENCE PERIOD: The length of time for which data are collected, e.g. a specific day, month or year.
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EMPLOYED: All persons aged 15 or over who during the reference period were in the following categories: 1) persons who performed some work for a wage or salary, in cash or in kind; 2) persons who, having already worked in their present job, were temporarily not at work and had a formal attachment to their job; 3) persons with an enterprise, who were temporarily not at work for any specific reason.; 4) persons who were offered early retirement, but were working in the reference period.
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LOCAL UNIT: An enterprise or part thereof (e.g. a workshop, factory, warehouse, office, mine or depot) situated in a geographically identified place. At or from this place economic activity is carried out for which ' save for certain exceptions ' one or more persons work (even if only part-time) for one and the same enterprise.
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ENTERPRISE: Legal entity (natural or legal person) that is an organisational unit producing goods or services, which benefits from a certain degree of autonomy in decision-making, especially for the allocation of its current resources. An enterprise carries out one or more activities at one or more locations.
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