Persons employed part-time, by sex

% of total employment

Persons in employment are those who, during the reference week, did any work for pay or profit for at least one hour, or were not working but had jobs from which they were temporarily absent. Family workers are included. The distinction between full-time and part-time work is made on the basis of a spontaneous answer given by the respondent. It is impossible to establish a more exact distinction between part-time and full-time work, due to variations in working hours between Member States and branches of industry.

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Total
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
EU (27 countries)	16.2	16.2	16.6	17.2	17.8	18.1	18.2	18.2	18.8	19.2	19.5	20.0
Euro area (17 countries)	15.8	16.0	16.5	17.5	18.6	19.1	19.3	19.4	20.0	20.4	20.9	21.6
Belgium	18.5	19.1	20.5	21.4	22.0	22.2	22.1	22.6	23.4	24.0	25.1	25.1
Bulgaria	3.2	2.5	2.3	2.4	2.1	2.0	1.7	2.3	2.3	2.4	2.4 ^(b)	2.4
Czech Republic	4.9	4.9	5.0	4.9	4.9	5.0	5.0	4.9	5.5	5.9	5.5	5.8 ^(b)
Denmark	20.1	20.0	21.3	22.2	22.1	23.6	23.7	24.4	25.9	26.3	25.9	25.7
Germany	20.3	20.8	21.7	22.3	24.0 ^(b)	25.8	26.1	25.9	26.1	26.2	26.6	26.7
Estonia	8.2	7.7	8.5	8.0	7.8	7.8	8.2	7.2	10.5	11.0	10.6	10.4
Ireland	16.5	16.5	16.9	16.8	..	..	17.7	18.6	21.3	22.7 ^(b)	23.6	24.0
Greece	4.0	4.4	4.3	4.6	5.0	5.7	5.6	5.6	6.0	6.4	6.8	7.7
Spain	8.0	8.0	8.2	8.7	12.4 ^(b)	12.0	11.8	12.0	12.8	13.3	13.8	14.7
France	16.3	16.4	16.8	17.0	17.2	17.2	17.3	17.0	17.4	17.8	17.9	18.0
Italy	8.4	8.6	8.5	12.7 ^(b)	12.8	13.3	13.6	14.3	14.3	15.0	15.5	17.1
Cyprus	8.4	7.2	8.9	8.6	8.9	7.7	7.3	7.8	8.6 ^(b)	9.5	10.2	10.7
Latvia	10.3	9.7	10.3	10.4	8.3	6.5	6.4	6.3	8.9	9.7	9.2 ^(b)	9.4
Lithuania	9.9	10.8	9.6	8.4	7.1	9.9	8.6	6.7	8.3	8.1	8.9 ^(b)	9.4
Luxembourg	10.4	10.7	13.4	16.4	17.4	17.1	17.8	18.0	18.2	17.9	18.4	19.0
Hungary	3.6	3.6	4.4	4.7	4.1	4.0	4.1	4.6	5.6	5.8	6.8	7.0
Malta	7.4	8.3	9.2	8.7	9.6	10.0	10.9	11.5	11.3	12.5	13.2	14.0
Netherlands	42.2	43.9	45.0	45.5	46.1	46.2	46.8	47.3	48.3	48.9 ^(b)	49.1	49.8
Austria	18.2	19.0	18.7	19.8 ^(b)	21.1	21.8	22.6	23.3	24.6	25.2	25.2	25.7
Poland	10.3	10.8	10.5	10.8	10.8	9.8	9.2	8.5	8.4	8.3	8.0	7.9 ^(b)
Portugal	11.1	11.2	11.7	11.3	11.2	11.3	12.1	11.9	11.6	11.6	13.3 ^(b)	14.3
Romania	16.6	11.8 ^(b)	11.5	10.6	10.2	9.7	9.7	9.9	9.8	11.0	10.5	10.2
Slovenia	6.1	6.1	6.2	9.3	9.0	9.2	9.3	9.0	10.6	11.4	10.4	9.8
Slovakia	2.3	1.9	2.4	2.7	2.5	2.8	2.6	2.7	3.6	3.9	4.1	4.1 ^(b)
Finland	12.2	12.8	13.0	13.5	13.7	14.0	14.1	13.3	14.0	14.6	14.9	15.1
Sweden	21.1	21.5	22.9	23.6	24.7 ^(b)	25.1	25.0	26.6	27.0	27.0	26.5	26.5
United Kingdom	25.0	25.3	25.6	25.7	25.2	25.3	25.2	25.3	26.1	26.9	26.8	27.2
Iceland	..	..	22.1	22.2	22.2	17.1	21.7	20.5	23.6	22.9	20.8	21.2
Norway	26.0	26.4	28.8	29.2	28.2	28.7	28.2	28.2	28.6	28.4	28.1	28.1
Switzerland	31.8	31.7	32.7	33.0	33.1	33.3	33.5	34.3	34.8	35.3 ^(b)	35.2	35.9
Montenegro	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Croatia	..	8.3	8.5	8.5	10.1	9.4	8.6	8.8	9.0	9.7	9.9	8.4
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	..	..	..	..	..	6.6	6.7	5.8	5.6	5.9	6.3	6.4
Turkey	..	..	..	..	..	7.6	8.4	9.3	11.3	11.7	12.0	12.0
Males
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
EU (27 countries)	6.6	6.6	6.7	7.1	7.4	7.7	7.7	7.8	8.3	8.7	9.0	9.5
Euro area (17 countries)	5.4	5.6	5.8	6.2	6.9	7.3	7.4	7.5	8.0	8.4	8.9	9.4
Belgium	5.2	5.6	6.4	6.8	7.6	7.4	7.5	7.9	8.6	9.0	9.8	9.7
Bulgaria	2.9	2.1	1.9	2.1	1.7	1.5	1.3	2.0	2.0	2.2	2.1 ^(b)	2.2
Czech Republic	2.2	2.2	2.3	2.3	2.1	2.2	2.3	2.2	2.8	2.9	2.5	2.9 ^(b)
Denmark	10.2	11.1	11.6	12.1	12.7	13.3	13.3	14.3	15.3	15.1	15.3	16.0
Germany	5.3	5.8	6.1	6.5	7.8 ^(b)	9.3	9.4	9.3	9.6	9.7	10.3	10.5
Estonia	5.1	4.8	5.4	5.4	4.9	4.3	4.3	4.1	7.0	7.1	5.6	5.8
Ireland	6.6	6.5	6.6	6.1	..	..	7.0	7.8	10.7	12.1 ^(b)	13.1	14.1
Greece	2.2	2.3	2.2	2.2	2.3	2.9	2.7	2.8	3.2	3.7	4.5	4.9
Spain	2.8	2.6	2.6	2.8	4.5 ^(b)	4.3	4.1	4.2	4.9	5.4	6.0	6.6
France	5.0	5.2	5.6	5.5	5.8	5.8	5.7	5.7	6.0	6.7	6.9	6.9
Italy	3.5	3.5	3.2	4.8 ^(b)	4.6	4.7	5.0	5.3	5.1	5.5	5.9	7.2
Cyprus	5.0	4.0	5.5	4.8	5.0	4.3	4.4	4.8	5.3 ^(b)	6.8	7.7	8.0
Latvia	8.6	7.6	7.9	7.7	6.3	4.7	4.9	4.5	7.5	7.8	7.3 ^(b)	7.1
Lithuania	8.4	9.4	7.4	6.5	5.1	7.9	7.0	4.9	7.0	6.7	7.1 ^(b)	7.4
Luxembourg	1.4	1.8	1.6	2.5	2.5	2.6	2.6	2.7	5.6	4.0	4.8	5.4
Hungary	2.2	2.3	2.8	3.2	2.7	2.6	2.8	3.3	3.9	3.9	4.7	4.7
Malta	3.2	3.9	3.8	4.1	4.5	4.9	4.4	4.5	5.1	6.0	6.6	6.9
Netherlands	20.0	21.2	22.0	22.3	22.6	23.0	23.6	23.9	24.9	25.4 ^(b)	25.4	26.4
Austria	4.8	5.1	4.7	4.9 ^(b)	6.1	6.5	7.2	8.1	8.7	9.0	8.9	9.0
Poland	8.3	8.5	8.2	8.2	8.0	7.1	6.6	5.9	5.8	5.7	5.5	5.2 ^(b)
Portugal	6.7	7.0	7.3	7.1	7.0	7.4	8.0	7.4	7.5	8.2	10.7 ^(b)	12.1
Romania	14.9	10.9 ^(b)	10.9	10.2	10.0	9.5	9.2	9.1	9.1	10.6	9.6	9.5
Slovenia	5.0	4.9	5.2	7.9	7.2	7.2	7.7	7.1	8.4	8.6	7.9	7.0
Slovakia	1.2	1.1	1.3	1.4	1.3	1.3	1.1	1.4	2.7	2.8	2.8	2.9 ^(b)
Finland	7.9	8.3	8.7	9.0	9.2	9.3	9.3	8.9	9.2	10.0	10.6	10.3
Sweden	10.8	11.1	11.2	12.0	11.5 ^(b)	11.8	11.8	13.3	14.2	14.5	14.2	14.6
United Kingdom	9.0	9.6	10.1	10.3	10.4	10.6	10.8	11.3	11.8	12.6	12.7	13.3
Iceland	..	..	9.4	9.2	8.7	7.0	9.3	9.5	12.2	11.9	10.4	11.3
Norway	11.2	11.2	14.0	14.6	13.8	13.9	13.9	14.4	15.2	15.4	14.8	15.4
Switzerland	11.5	10.9	11.6	11.8	11.8	12.6	12.4	13.5	13.6	14.1 ^(b)	14.4	14.9
Montenegro	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Croatia	..	6.6	6.3	6.3	7.3	7.5	6.4	6.7	6.9	7.3	7.9	7.0
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	..	..	..	..	..	6.0	6.5	4.7	4.7	5.0	5.8	5.9
Turkey	..	..	..	..	..	4.3	4.7	5.3	6.5	6.9	6.8	6.9
Females
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
EU (27 countries)	28.6	28.5	29.1	30.1	30.9	31.2	31.2	31.1	31.5	31.9	32.1	32.6
Euro area (17 countries)	30.1	30.0	30.7	32.3	33.8	34.3	34.6	34.4	34.8	35.2	35.5	36.2
Belgium	36.9	37.4	39.1	40.5	40.5	41.1	40.6	40.9	41.5	42.3	43.4	43.6
Bulgaria	3.6	3.0	2.6	2.7	2.5	2.5	2.1	2.7	2.7	2.6	2.6 ^(b)	2.7
Czech Republic	8.5	8.3	8.5	8.3	8.6	8.7	8.5	8.5	9.2	9.9	9.4	9.5 ^(b)
Denmark	31.6	30.3	32.7	33.8	33.0	35.4	35.5	36.0	37.5	38.4	37.6	36.4
Germany	39.3	39.5	40.8	41.6	43.8 ^(b)	45.8	46.1	45.7	45.4	45.5	45.7	45.6
Estonia	11.3	10.7	11.8	10.6	10.6	11.3	12.1	10.4	13.8	14.5	15.4	14.9
Ireland	30.7	30.6	31.0	31.5	..	..	32.0	32.4	33.9	34.9 ^(b)	35.7	35.4
Greece	7.2	8.0	7.7	8.5	9.3	10.2	10.1	9.9	10.4	10.4	10.2	11.9
Spain	16.8	16.8	17.1	17.9	24.2 ^(b)	23.2	22.8	22.7	23.0	23.2	23.5	24.5
France	30.1	29.8	29.9	30.4	30.3	30.3	30.4	29.5	30.0	30.1	30.1	30.2
Italy	16.6	16.9	17.3	25.0 ^(b)	25.6	26.5	26.9	27.9	27.9	29.0	29.3	31.1
Cyprus	12.9	11.3	13.2	13.6	14.0	12.1	10.9	11.4	12.4 ^(b)	12.7	12.9	13.7
Latvia	11.9	12.0	12.7	13.2	10.4	8.3	8.0	8.1	10.2	11.4	10.9 ^(b)	11.6
Lithuania	11.4	12.3	11.8	10.5	9.1	12.0	10.2	8.6	9.5	9.3	10.5 ^(b)	11.3
Luxembourg	25.8	25.3	30.7	36.3	38.2	36.2	37.2	38.3	35.1	36.0	36.1	36.3
Hungary	5.2	5.1	6.2	6.3	5.8	5.6	5.8	6.2	7.5	8.0	9.2	9.7
Malta	17.5	18.3	21.3	19.3	21.1	21.5	24.6	25.5	23.7	25.0	25.7	26.3
Netherlands	71.3	73.1	74.1	74.7	75.1	74.7	75.0	75.3	75.8	76.5 ^(b)	76.7	77.0
Austria	35.0	35.9	36.0	38.0 ^(b)	39.3	40.2	41.2	41.5	42.9	43.8	44.0	44.9
Poland	12.7	13.4	13.2	14.0	14.3	13.0	12.5	11.7	11.6	11.5	11.1	11.3 ^(b)
Portugal	16.4	16.4	16.9	16.3	16.2	15.8	16.9	17.2	16.4	15.5	16.3 ^(b)	16.8
Romania	18.4	13.0 ^(b)	12.2	11.2	10.5	9.8	10.4	10.8	10.6	11.4	11.5	11.1
Slovenia	7.4	7.5	7.5	11.0	11.1	11.6	11.3	11.4	13.2	14.7	13.3	13.1
Slovakia	3.5	2.7	3.8	4.2	4.1	4.7	4.5	4.2	4.7	5.4	5.9	5.7 ^(b)
Finland	16.8	17.5	17.7	18.4	18.6	19.2	19.3	18.2	19.0	19.6	19.6	20.1
Sweden	33.0	33.1	35.5	36.3	39.6 ^(b)	40.2	40.0	41.4	41.2	41.0	40.1	39.6
United Kingdom	43.9	43.8	43.9	43.8	42.6	42.5	42.2	41.8	42.5	43.3	43.1	43.3
Iceland	..	..	36.2	36.8	37.5	30.1	36.7	33.7	36.4	34.9	32.2	32.0
Norway	42.9	43.3	45.3	45.4	44.2	45.2	44.1	43.6	43.4	42.9	42.8	42.2
Switzerland	57.2	57.0	58.4	58.8	58.8	58.4	59.0	59.0	59.8	60.6 ^(b)	60.1	60.9
Montenegro	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Croatia	..	10.5	11.2	11.2	13.4	11.7	11.3	11.5	11.6	12.5	12.4	10.0
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the	..	..	..	..	..	7.6	7.2	7.6	7.0	7.4	7.1	7.2
Turkey	..	..	..	..	..	17.3	19.1	20.2	23.7	23.8	24.7	24.4

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(b) - break in time series

Source: Eurostat