employment-status
The labour force participation status of a person, classified according to the ILO 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (2013) tripartite framework.
https://publicschema.org/vocab/employment-status
Standard reference
ILO 19th ICLS Resolution concerning statistics of work, employment, and labour underutilization (https://www.ilo.org/resource/resolution/ilo-resolution-concerning-statistics-work-employment-and-labour)
Tripartite classification: employed, unemployed, outside the labour force.
Aligned standards
| Standard | Equivalent | Match |
|---|---|---|
| OpenCRVS v1 GraphQL | No v1 equivalent | none |
| OpenCRVS v1 does not include an employment status field or vocabulary. | ||
Values
| Code | Label | Standard code | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
employed | Employed | Persons of working age who, during a short reference period, were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit. | |
unemployed | Unemployed | Persons of working age who were not in employment, carried out activities to seek employment, and were currently available to take up employment. | |
outside_labour_force | Outside the labour force | Persons of working age who were neither employed nor unemployed during the reference period (e.g., students, retirees, homemakers, discouraged workers). |