Approximately 60.5 percent of the employed population of Jamaica held “paid employment jobs” in 2019, or jobs where they held employment contracts with right to basic remuneration. That year, the share of employees in Jamaica's workforce was below the average of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Distribution of total employed population in Jamaica from 2015 to 2019, by status
The source provides the following additional information:
"The employed comprise all persons of working age who, during a specified brief period, were in one of the following categories: a) paid employment (whether at work or with a job but not at work); or b) self-employment (whether at work or with an enterprise but not at work). Data are disaggregated by status in employment according to the latest version of the International Standard Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-93). Status in employment refers to the type of explicit or implicit contract of employment the person has with other persons or organizations. The basic criteria used to define the groups of the classification are the type of economic risk and the type of authority over establishments and other workers which the job incumbents have or will have."
Percentage points missing or exceeding 100 percent are probably due to rounding.
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ILO. (May 26, 2021). Distribution of total employed population in Jamaica from 2015 to 2019, by status [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 23, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039607/distribution-employed-population-status-jamaica/
ILO. "Distribution of total employed population in Jamaica from 2015 to 2019, by status." Chart. May 26, 2021. Statista. Accessed December 23, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039607/distribution-employed-population-status-jamaica/
ILO. (2021). Distribution of total employed population in Jamaica from 2015 to 2019, by status. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 23, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039607/distribution-employed-population-status-jamaica/
ILO. "Distribution of Total Employed Population in Jamaica from 2015 to 2019, by Status." Statista, Statista Inc., 26 May 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039607/distribution-employed-population-status-jamaica/
ILO, Distribution of total employed population in Jamaica from 2015 to 2019, by status Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039607/distribution-employed-population-status-jamaica/ (last visited December 23, 2024)
Distribution of total employed population in Jamaica from 2015 to 2019, by status [Graph], ILO, May 26, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1039607/distribution-employed-population-status-jamaica/
