The term "employed persons" refers to all persons aged 15 and over who, during the reference week:
- worked at least one hour for payment or
- who, although temporarily absent from their work (due to illness, holidays, maternity leave, military service, etc.) had a job in an employed or self-employed capacity or
- who worked in the family business without payment.
This definition covers the following, irrespective of the place where this work is done (in a company/business, at home or in another private household): employees, self-employed persons, family workers in family businesses, apprentices, recruits, junior officers and officers who, while undergoing basic or further military training, retain their jobs and employment contracts, school pupils and students who work in parallel with their studies, and retired persons who continue working. People who only do housework in their own households, assist others free of charge, or carry out other voluntary activities are not regarded as employed persons.
(See also related concept: "jobs")
Statistical sources
Employment Statistics (ES), Labour Market Accounts (LMA):
Employed persons based on the domestic concept
Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS), structural survey conducted within the framework of the population census:
Employed persons in the permanent resident population
