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Employment and workweek – IndicatorsAbsences

Annual no. of hours of time off work for full-time employees per gender and branch of economic activity

2010, domestic concept, in hours per job
	Total	Men	Women
NOGA branch of economic activity
Agriculture, forestry and fishing	63	64	(59)
Manufacturing, Mining and quarrying	83	78	101
Construction	102	103	(73)
Trade; rep. of motor vehicles a. moto.	63	57	77
Transportation and storage	97	101	76
Accomodation and food service activities	70	52	95
Information and communications	58	49	95
Financial and insurance activities	55	46	74
Real estate activities, admin. and support serv. activities	99	89	124
Prof., scientific and tech. activities	46	38	67
Public administration and defence	63	57	78
Education 1)	…	…	…
Human health and social work activities	74	68	78
Arts, other service activities	65	54	78
Total	73	70	82

1) For education, working time, divided into weeks with and without attendance at school was not taken into account satisfactorily by the Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS) which is the main source for the Work Volume Statistics (WV). For this reason, we have decided not to publish data for the economic sector for the time being.

Work Volume Statistics (WV), SFSO

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Last updated: 17.11.2011

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