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What share of part-time employees is involuntarily part-time employed?

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Definition:	Share of involuntary part-timers as percent of total part-time employment
Year:	2019
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, JPN, NZL, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2018)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Incidence of involuntary part time workers URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted June 18th, 2020
Source 2:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR
Annotation:	Eurostat: Involuntary part-time employment as percentage of the total part-time employment, by sex and age (%) [lfsa_eppgai] URL: https://appsso.eurostat.ec.e… extracted May 19th, 2020
Source 3:	SGI Estimate
Data for:	KOR, MEX

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	61.82
/	Below/Above IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=10-relative distance*9
Annotat.:	SGI Estimate by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult)

Additional annotations and exceptions

Data for KOR, MEX are missing. Imputed Value=SGI Estimate

Top group

Score

Involuntary Part-time Employment

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USA

9.4

3.96

Slovenia

9.3

4.80

Netherlands

9.2

5.40

Belgium

9.2

5.80

Estonia

9.1

6.10

Israel

9.1

6.40

Czechia

9.0

6.70

Upper middle group

Malta

8.9

7.60

Switzerland

8.8

8.50

Austria

8.7

9.00

Mexico

8.7

9.07

Germany

8.7

9.20

Denmark

8.4

10.90

South Korea

8.3

11.72

Luxembourg

8.1

12.90

8.1

13.20

Turkey

7.9

14.10

Poland

7.9

14.40

Iceland

7.7

15.80

Ireland

7.6

16.20

Japan

7.6

16.34

Canada

7.2

19.50

Norway

7.1

19.70

Hungary

7.0

20.50

Latvia

6.8

21.90

New Zealand

6.7

22.82

Sweden

6.7

22.90

Lithuania

6.6

23.50

Slovakia

6.1

27.10

Lower middle group

Australia

5.9

28.10

Croatia

5.7

29.50

Finland

5.5

30.90

France

4.5

38.00

Portugal

3.6

43.70

Chile

3.1

47.39

Bottom group

Bulgaria

2.4

52.20

Spain

2.1

54.40

Romania

1.9

55.60

Cyprus

1.7

56.90

Italy

1.0

65.80

Greece

1.0

66.40

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