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Published in final edited form as: J Cross Cult Gerontol. 2009 Mar;24(1):49–62. doi: 10.1007/s10823-008-9073-7

Table 3.

Self Reported Labor Market Status by Gender and Country (Percentage Values)

SEa DKa DEa NLa FRa CHa ATa ITa ESa GRa ILb HWb ACb RNb
Women
 Worker 33.3 32.2 20.9 20.9 23.4 29.3 12.0 13.8 13.1 12.8 26.5 30.1 [1.3] 24.2
 Retired 59.2 56.4 55.7 26.6 49.1 50.1 63.8 45.6 16.7 44.3 38.7 43.9 [8.0] 34.3
 Unemployed 1.8 3.6 3.9 1.1 3.7 1.5 1.9 0.9 2.8 1.4 6.7 (4.2) [0.0] 16.6
 Disabled 1.9 3.7 1.6 8.7 2.2 2.4 0.9 0.6 3.9 1.7 7.5 (4.5) [1.3] 18.7
 Homemaker 1.6 2.6 16.2 37.9 19.3 14.9 19.8 37.6 56.1 38.5 18.3 15.7 89.3 [0.0]
 Other 2.3 1.4 1.8 4.9 2.4 1.9 1.6 1.5 7.3 1.3 (2.4) (1.6) [0.0] (6.1)
Men
 Worker 42.4 40.6 36.2 37.4 27.2 48.6 23.3 27.9 31.4 37.3 44.8 46.0 (30.6) 47.6
 Retired 51.9 50.0 52.8 46.2 64.8 43.2 69.9 68.8 57.9 58.8 39.1 42.1 (36.1) 29.7
 Unemployed 2.3 5.2 6.1 2.9 3.4 1.8 2.9 2.1 3.6 1.8 5.4 (2.8) [11.2] (11.8)
 Disabled 1.8 2.4 3.5 7.8 2.5 3.9 2.0 0.5 4.0 1.3 8.4 7.6 (20.8) [5.5]
 Homemaker 0.0 0.2 0.2 0.8 0.9 0.6 0.5 0.1 0.6 0.2 [0.1] [0.0] [1.4] [0.0]
 Other 1.6 1.6 1.2 4.9 1.2 1.9 1.5 0.7 2.7 0.6 (2.1) [1.4] [0.0] [5.5]
a

Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe: First results from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe, 2005 (release 0), weighted, Table 5A.2

b

SHARE-Israel: preliminary release, 2006 (release 0), weighted; ( ) = less than 30 observations, [ ] = less than ten observations, population group: HW = veteran Jewish-Israelis, AC = Arab-Israelis, RN = immigrants from Former Soviet Union. Women: chi-square=454.0, p<0.001; men: chi-square=110.9, p<0.001