OECD data on Labour Force Participation

Data on labour force participation rates by age and sex, for multiple countries, starting in 1960, from the OECD Data Explorer database.

Usage

oecd_lfp

Format

A tibble with 12069 rows and the following columns: TIME_PERIOD, REF_AREA, MEASURE,UNIT_MEASURE, SEX, AGE, LABOUR FORCE STATUS, obsValue, DECIMALS, OBS_STATUS.

Source

Downloaded from table "Employment and unemployment by five-year age group and sex - indicators" from OECD Data Explorer. Accessed 21 April 2024. Only a subset of the full dataset is included in oecd_lpr.

Details

The labour force participation rate is the number of people in the labour force (ie the number of people who are currently employed or unemployed) as a proportion of the population.