Annual average		2005			2006 4)
	2004	2005	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	2nd quarter
							Old	New
Employed persons total	2 276	2 289	2 286	2 304	2 298	2 326	2 347	2 354
Salaried employees	2 105	2 116	2 114	2 130	2 124	2 135	2 150	2 155
Self-employed	161	163	162	164	166	179	189	190
Family workers	7	6	6	7	5	7	8	8
MALES
Employed persons total	1 201	1 211	1 212	1 217	1 216	1 232	1 242	1 245
Salaried employees	1 078	1 088	1 090	1 093	1 092	1 090	1 098	1 100
Self-employed	118	119	117	118	121	135	140	141
Family workers	4	3	3	3	2	2	3	3
FEMALES
Employed persons total	1 074	1 078	1 074	1 087	1 082	1 094	1 105	1 109
Salaried employees	1 027	1 028	1 023	1 037	1 032	1 045	1 052	1 055
Self-employed	43	45	45	46	45	44	48	49
Family workers	3	3	3	3	3	5	5	5
Employed persons at work 1	1 911	1 935	2 039	1 673	2 032	2 085	2 028	2 032
Salaried employees	1 760	1 781	1 878	1 533	1 874	1 913	1 847	1 850
Self-employed	143	145	151	132	151	163	173	175
Family workers	6	6	6	6	5	7	7	8
MALES
Employed persons at work 1	1 035	1 051	1 105	916	1 103	1 133	1 098	1 101
Salaried employees	925	941	991	815	989	1 004	966	967
Self-employed	106	106	110	97	110	124	130	131
Family workers	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	3
FEMALES
Employed persons at work 1	875	884	934	757	930	953	929	931
Salaried employees	835	840	887	718	885	909	881	883
Self-employed	37	39	41	36	40	39	43	44
Family workers	3	3	3	3	3	4	5	5
Man-weeks worked 2	1 761	1 800	1 878	1 589	1 908	1 923	1 793	1 791
Salaried employees	1 600	1 635	1 702	1 436	1 739	1 741	1 599	1 592
Self-employed	156	159	170	147	165	175	192	193
Family workers	3	3	4	4	3	5	1	5
MALES
Man-weeks worked 2	1 053	1 074	1 121	949	1 141	1 148	1 063	1 066
Salaried employees	928	948	986	832	1 010	1 003	910	910
Self-employed	123	124	132	115	129	141	153	153
Family workers	2	2	2	2	1	1	-	2
FEMALES
Man-weeks worked 2	708	725	757	639	767	776	729	725
Salaried employees	672	687	716	605	729	738	689	682
Self-employed	33	35	38	32	36	34	39	40
Family workers	2	2	2	1	1	3	1	3
HOURS PER WEEK
Actual working hours	34,6	34,9	34,6	35,6	35,2	34,8	33,3	33,2
Salaried employees	34,1	34,4	34,0	35,1	34,8	34,4	32,4	32,5
Self-employed	40,9	41,1	42,1	41,7	41,1	40,6	43,0	41,0
Family workers	19,5	21,0	22,9	21,1	22,3	22,0	13,3	19,9
MALES
Actual working hours	38,1	38,3	38,0	38,9	38,8	38,5	36,6	36,5
Salaried employees	37,6	37,8	37,3	38,3	38,3	37,9	35,4	35,6
Self-employed	43,3	43,8	45,0	44,7	43,7	43,0	45,2	43,7
Family workers	20,3	23,6	22,7	24,2	27,7	18,0	8,3	19,3
FEMALES
Actual working hours	30,3	30,8	30,4	31,6	31,0	30,6	29,4	29,2
Salaried employees	30,2	30,7	30,3	31,6	30,9	30,5	29,2	29,1
Self-employed	33,8	33,9	34,3	33,7	33,9	32,9	36,1	33,0
Family workers	18,6	18,6	23,2	17,4	18,6	24.1	14.1	20.3

1 Temporarily absent from work not included.

2 A 37,5 hours.

3 As from2006 the age limit to participate in the LFS was lovered from 16 to 15 years. At the same time the definition of age was changed from completed years at the end of the year to completed years at the end of the reference week.

4 As from January 2006 the LFS was revised, and the figures for 2006 are based on this revised survey. To improve the comparability for the figures between 2nd quarter 2006 and 2nd quarter 2005, figures for 2nd quarter 2006 are published according to both the revised and the unrevised LFS regarding to the main changes.