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Employed population in the economy: This indicator reflects
number of persons aged 15 years and over who are employed in the
reference period (7 days prior the time point of observation).

Employed population in the economy are persons aged 15 years and
above in the reference period who are engaged in any activity
(not prohibited by the law) at least one hour to produce goods/products or
provide services for the purpose of generating income for themselves and
their families.

Employed population also include those persons who are not
working in the reference week but have a job and strongly attach to this
job (such as continuously receive salary/wage during the absence from
work or surely back to work for less than 1 month).

esides, the following specific cases are also considered “employed”
or “engaged in an activity”:

(1) Those persons who are participating in training or skill
enhancement activities due to job requirements in the recruiting
establishment;

(2) Those persons who are considered apprentices, trainees
(including interns), are working and receiving wage/salary;
(3) Those persons who are working in their own economic

establishments/households to produce goods/products or provide services;
(4) Those persons who are working for the purpose of

wage/salary/profit even that the money is not paid directly to them but
accrued to their own families’ general income, including:
(i) Those persons who are working in any kind of business units run
by one member of their own families, living in the same or another
household;

(ii) Those persons who are in charge of any task/duty of a paid job

held by one member of their own families, living in the same or another
household.

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