Employed persons and employees subject to social security

Definition: Employed persons shall include persons engaged in an activity aimed at acquisition, irrespective of the duration of the working time actually worked or to be performed in accordance with the contract. In order to be assigned to the employed, it is irrelevant whether or not the predominant subsistence is denied from this activity. Therefore, it also includes persons who are engaged in “minor employment”. In the case of several activities, persons are counted only once. Employees do not include persons who only manage private assets (e.g. real estate, financial assets, securities). This definition is based on the standards established by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which were also incorporated into the European System of National Accounts (ESA) 1995. The employment figures are presented as annual averages, calculated according to the domestic concept (workers working at the place of work). Therefore, all persons who have their place of residence and work in the respective territory, plus those residing outside that territory, who reach their place of work from there. Employees subject to social security are workers and trainees who are subject to health, care, pension insurance or are subject to contributions to unemployment insurance or who are to be paid for contributions to statutory pension insurance. Note: A general review was carried out in 2014. This was primarily aimed at introducing the new European System of National Accounts (ESA 2010) across Europe. ESA 2010 is based on the worldwide new System of National Accounts (SNA 2008) and replaced the previous ESA 1995. As part of this revision, the base year for the calculations changed from 2005 to 2010. Data source: Working group “Professional accounting of the federal and state governments” (professionals) Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency (employees subject to social insurance)