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Published by nbroscar on 12 December 2014

Is there any minimum number of hours of employment for participants to be counted as “employed”?

The common output indicator “employed, including self-employed” and the result indicators relating to “participants in employment” do not include any requirement in terms of the minimum number of hours. The definition of employment used for the common indicators is taken from the EU Labour Force Survey which refers to “any work for pay or profit during the reference week, even for as little as one hour”. As a consequence, all jobs which are in line with the definition provided in the EC guidance document on monitoring and evaluation (Annex C1) should be recorded.