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

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Share of involuntary part-timers as percent of total part-time employment
Year:	2021
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	Low values translate into high scores
Source 1:	OECD Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CAN, CHL, ISR, JPN, NZL, GBR, USA
Exceptions:	AUS (2018)
Annotation:	OECD: Dataset: Incidence of involuntary part time workers URL: https://stats.oecd.org/Index… extracted June 24th, 2022
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
Exceptions:	TUR (2020)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Involuntary part-time employment as percentage of the total part-time employment, by sex and age (%) [lfsa_eppgai] URL: https://ec.europa.eu/eurosta… extracted June 15th, 2022
Source 3:	SGI Estimate
Data for:	KOR, MEX
Exceptions:	KOR (2020), MEX (2020)

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Minimum:	0
Maximum:	62.465
/	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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Netherlands

9.5

3.70

USA

9.3

4.57

USA

9.3

4.57

Israel

9.1

5.90

Germany

9.0

7.10

Norway

9.0

7.10

Upper middle group

Switzerland

8.8

8.00

Switzerland

8.8

8.00

Austria

8.7

9.20

Denmark

8.7

9.30

Slovenia

8.6

9.60

Slovenia

8.6

9.60

Ireland

8.2

12.60

8.1

13.02

8.1

13.02

South Korea

8.0

13.54

Poland

7.9

14.40

Turkey

7.8

15.30

Estonia

7.7

15.80

Czechia

7.5

17.60

Slovakia

7.0

20.80

Slovakia

7.0

20.80

Belgium

6.9

21.40

Hungary

6.7

23.00

Japan

6.6

23.46

Canada

6.6

23.72

Lithuania

6.4

25.00

Sweden

6.4

25.10

Sweden

6.4

25.10

New Zealand

6.2

26.56

Lower middle group

France

5.9

28.30

Australia

5.7

29.53

Finland

5.4

31.60

Latvia

5.0

34.70

Portugal

4.1

41.10

Portugal

4.1

41.10

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Bottom group

Spain

2.3

53.40

Spain

2.3

53.40

Greece

2.0

55.70

Italy

1.0

62.80

Romania

1.0

65.80