Portugal: manufacture of food products number of employees 2021

The number of employees in the food product manufacturing industry in Portugal saw no significant changes in 2021 in comparison to the previous year 2020 and remained at around 87064 employees.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the food products manufacturing sector of Portugal from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Total number of employees
2021b	87,064
2020	86,759
2019	96,373
2018	94,084
2017	92,818
2016	90,109
2015	87,933
2014	85,620
2013	83,718
2012	86,301

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Release date

March 2024

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Portugal

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds further explanation: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work.
Data coverage corresponds to Section C10 of CE Rev2.

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