Annual average		2005		20064
	2004	2005	3rd quarter	4th quarter	1st quarter	2nd quarter	3rd quarter	3rd quarter
							Old	New
Employed persons total	2 276	2 289	2 304	2 298	2 326	2 354	2 373	2 381
Salaried employees	2 105	2 116	2 130	2 124	2 135	2 155	2 169	2 176
Self-employed	161	163	164	166	179	190	195	195
Family workers	7	6	7	5	7	8	9	9
MALES
Employed persons total	1 201	1 211	1 217	1 216	1 232	1 245	1 258	1 262
Salaried employees	1 078	1 088	1 093	1 092	1 090	1 100	1 110	1 114
Self-employed	118	119	118	121	135	141	144	144
Family workers	4	3	3	2	2	3	4	4
FEMALES
Employed persons total	1 074	1 078	1 087	1 082	1 094	1 109	1 115	1 119
Salaried employees	1 027	1 028	1 037	1 032	1 045	1 055	1 059	1 063
Self-employed	43	45	46	45	44	49	51	51
Family workers	3	3	3	3	5	5	5	5
Employed persons at work 2	1 911	1 935	1 673	2 032	2 085	2 032	1 732	1 738
Salaried employees	1 760	1 781	1 533	1 874	1 913	1 850	1 568	1 574
Self-employed	143	145	132	151	163	175	155	156
Family workers	6	6	6	5	7	8	8	9
MALES
Employed persons at work 2	1 035	1 051	916	1 103	1 133	1 101	949	952
Salaried employees	925	941	815	989	1 004	967	830	832
Self-employed	106	106	97	110	124	131	116	116
Family workers	3	3	3	2	2	3	4	4
FEMALES
Employed persons at work 2	875	884	757	930	953	931	783	786
Salaried employees	835	840	718	885	909	883	739	741
Self-employed	37	39	36	40	39	44	39	40
Family workers	3	3	3	3	4	5	5	5
Man-weeks worked 3	1 761	1 800	1 589	1 908	1 923	1 791	1 649	1 653
Salaried employees	1 600	1 635	1 436	1 739	1 741	1 592	1 469	1 472
Self-employed	156	159	147	165	175	193	176	176
Family workers	3	3	4	3	5	5	4	4
MALES
Man-weeks worked 3	1 053	1 074	949	1 141	1 148	1 066	991	993
Salaried employees	928	948	832	1 010	1 003	910	848	850
Self-employed	123	124	115	129	141	153	141	141
Family workers	2	2	2	1	1	2	1	1
FEMALES
Man-weeks worked 3	708	725	639	767	776	725	659	660
Salaried employees	672	687	605	729	738	682	621	622
Self-employed	33	35	32	36	34	40	35	35
Family workers	2	2	1	1	3	3	3	3
HOURS PER WEEK
Actual working hours	34,6	34,9	35,6	35,2	34,8	33,2	35,7	35,7
Salaried employees	34,1	34,4	35,1	34,8	34,4	32,5	35,1	35,1
Self-employed	40,9	41,1	41,7	41,1	40,6	41,0	42,5	42,4
Family workers	19,5	21,0	21,1	22,3	22,0	19,9	19,1	18,6
MALES
Actual working hours	38,1	38,3	38,9	38,8	38,5	36,5	39,1	39,1
Salaried employees	37,6	37,8	38,3	38,3	37,9	35,6	38,3	38,3
Self-employed	43,3	43,8	44,7	43,7	43,0	43,7	45,5	45,5
Family workers	20,3	23,6	24,2	27,7	18,0	19,3	15,2	14,4
FEMALES
Actual working hours	30,3	30,8	31,6	31,0	30,6	29,2	31,6	31,5
Salaried employees	30,2	30,7	31,6	30,9	30,5	29,1	31,5	31,5
Self-employed	33,8	33,9	33,7	33,9	32,9	33,0	33,6	33,4
Family workers	18,6	18,6	17,4	18,6	24,1	20,3	22,0	21,8

1 There may be occasional breaks in the time series of man-hours worked due to public holidays (movable feasts).

2 Temporarily absent from work not included.

3 A 37,5 hours.

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 3rd quarter 2006 and 3rd quarter 2005, figures for 3rd quarter 2006 are published according to both the revised and the unrevised LFS regarding to the main changes.