Number of employees in the circular economy

Scope
Circular economy
Action line
Competitiveness and innovation
Type of indicator (global, European, national)
  • European
  • National
Correlation with other sets of indicators
Description
Jobs are expressed in number of people employed and as a percentage of total employment. The number of people employed is defined as the total number of people working in the observation unit, that is, the company (including working owners, partners who regularly work in the unit and unpaid family workers), as well as people who work outside the unit that belong to it and are paid by it, in the Circular Economy.
Calculation method

$$\% \textit{Employment CE}^{t}=\frac{\textit{Persons employed in CE}^{t}}{\textit{Total employment}^{t}} \cdot 100$$

Unit of measure
  • Number of full-time equivalent jobs
  • Percentage
Source
Eurostat
Periodicity
Annual
Disaggregated data(Gender, age, region in Spain, other)
Come from National Statistics Plan (YES/NO)
No
Responsible institution
Eurostat
Date of the last metadata update
05/06/2024