Annual average		2005				1st quarter 2006 4)
	2004	2005	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	4th quarter	Old	New
Employed persons total	2 276	2 289	2 267	2 286	2 304	2 298	2 317	2 326
Salaried employees	2 105	2 116	2 097	2 114	2 130	2 124	2 129	2 135
Self-employed	161	163	161	162	164	166	177	179
Family workers	7	6	7	6	7	5	7	7
MALES
Employed persons total	1 201	1 211	1 199	1 212	1 217	1 216	1 226	1 232
Salaried employees	1 078	1 088	1 077	1 090	1 093	1 092	1 087	1 090
Self-employed	118	119	118	117	118	121	133	135
Family workers	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2
FEMALES
Employed persons total	1 074	1 078	1 069	1 074	1 087	1 082	1 091	1 094
Salaried employees	1 027	1 028	1 021	1 023	1 037	1 032	1 042	1 045
Self-employed	43	45	43	45	46	45	44	44
Family workers	3	3	3	3	3	3	5	5
Employed persons at work 1	1 911	1 935	1 997	2 039	1 673	2 032	2 082	2 085
Salaried employees	1 760	1 781	1 841	1 878	1 533	1 874	1 911	1 913
Self-employed	143	145	147	151	132	151	161	163
Family workers	6	6	6	6	6	5	7	7
MALES
Employed persons at work 1	1 035	1 051	1 082	1 105	916	1 103	1 130	1 133
Salaried employees	925	941	971	991	815	989	1 003	1 004
Self-employed	106	106	108	110	97	110	122	124
Family workers	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2
FEMALES
Employed persons at work 1	875	884	914	934	757	930	952	953
Salaried employees	835	840	871	887	718	885	908	909
Self-employed	37	39	40	41	36	40	39	39
Family workers	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4
Man-weeks worked 2	1 761	1 800	1 823	1 878	1 589	1 908	1 948	1 923
Salaried employees	1 600	1 635	1 664	1 702	1 436	1 739	1 770	1 741
Self-employed	156	159	155	170	147	165	172	175
Family workers	3	3	3	4	4	3	2	5
MALES
Man-weeks worked 2	1 053	1 074	1 086	1 121	949	1 141	1 163	1 148
Salaried employees	928	948	964	986	832	1 010	1 022	1 003
Self-employed	123	124	120	132	115	129	136	141
Family workers	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1
FEMALES
Man-weeks worked 2	708	725	737	757	639	767	785	776
Salaried employees	672	687	700	716	605	729	747	738
Self-employed	33	35	36	38	32	36	36	34
Family workers	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	3
HOURS PER WEEK
Actual working hours	34,6	34,9	34,2	34,6	35,6	35,2	35,3	34,8
Salaried employees	34,1	34,4	33,9	34,0	35,1	34,8	34,9	34,4
Self-employed	40,9	41,1	39,6	42,1	41,7	41,1	40,1	40,6
Family workers	19,5	21,0	17,9	22,9	21,1	22,3	13,3	22,0
MALES
Actual working hours	38,1	38,3	37,6	38,0	38,9	38,8	38,9	38,5
Salaried employees	37,6	37,8	37,2	37,3	38,3	38,3	38,5	37,9
Self-employed	43,3	43,8	41,8	45,0	44,7	43,7	42,2	43,0
Family workers	20,3	23,6	21,2	22,7	24,2	27,7	18,4	18,0
FEMALES
Actual working hours	30,3	30,8	30,2	30,4	31,6	31,0	31,0	30,6
Salaried employees	30,2	30,7	30,2	30,3	31,6	30,9	30,9	30,5
Self-employed	33,8	33,9	33,8	34,3	33,7	33,9	33,9	32,9
Family workers	18,6	18,6	14,4	23,2	17,4	18,6	10,7	24,1

1 Temporarily absent from work not included.

2 A 37,5 hours.

3 As from 2006 the age limit to participate in the LFS was lowered 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 time of the reference week.

4 As from January 2006 the LFS was revised. To improve the comparability for the figures between 1st quarter 2006 and 1st quarter 2005, figures for 1st quarter 2006 are published according to both the revised and the unrevised LFS regarding to the main changes, i.e. the changes concerning age limit, the definition of age and the classification of persons on lay-off.