To the Top
The 3 steps are Choose table, Choose variable and Show result. You are currently at Choose variable

STF01031 Employees and jobs by institutional sector, main activity, age group and month (1985M01-2026M05)

Choose variables

Maria Heen
6/18/2026
number
M
8/21/2026
8/29/2024
Yes
Statistics Faroe Islands: www.hagstova.fo/en
STF01031_ALDB_VG_MD
Now you have come to the page, Choose variable. This page give you the oportunity to select which variables and values you want to display in your result of the table. A variable is a property of a statistical unit. The page is divided into several boxes, one for each variable, where you can select values by click to highlight one or more values. It always starts with the statistics variable which is the main value counted in the table.
Mandatory

Selected 0 of total 5

Field for searching for a specific value in the list box. This is examples of values you can search for.Total (age group 13+ years) , 13-14 years , 15-19 years ,

Selected 0 of total 20

Optional variable

Selected 0 of total 12

Optional variable
Field for searching for a specific value in the list box. This is examples of values you can search for.Total (employer's main activity) , A Agriculture, forestry and fishing , B Mining and quarrying ,

Selected 0 of total 123

Optional variable
Mandatory
Field for searching for a specific value in the list box. This is examples of values you can search for.1985M01 , 1985M02 , 1985M03 ,

Selected 1 of total 497

Number of selected data cells are:
(maximum number allowed is 8,000,000)

Presentation on screen is limited to 10,000 rows and 300 columns

Number of selected cells exceeds the maximum allowed 8,000,000
Symbols:  -  Nil (exactly zero)
 0  Rounded to zero
 •  Not applicable
 ••  Not available or too uncertain
 ••• Not disclosed, confidentiality/privacy protected According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) persons in employment are those of working age who, during a short reference period, were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit. This is comprised ofa) employed persons 'at work', who worked for at least one hour during the reference period (often set to one week); andb) employed persons 'not at work' due to temporary absence (such as shift work, flex time, compensatory leave for overtime, parental leave or illness).The source to employment numbers are monthly wages in cash paid by an employer to an employee through the pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) tax system. In accordance with the international standards, a monthly wage threshold is set at 4 times the hourly minimumwage+holidaypay from the collective agreement between the Faroese Worker's Union (FA) and the Faroese Employers Association (FEA). Thus, if the montly wage received is below the mark, the person is not coinsidered an employee that month. The Faroese Safety Authority states that children under the age of 13 cannot be employed, which thus is set to be the minimum age threshold.In accordance with the above mentioned an employee is set to be a person at age 13 or above, who in the relevant month received a wage of minimum one hour a week or more through the pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) tax system.

institutional sector

Institutional sectors are the sorting of institutional entities by economic activity. The economic activity is determined by whether the goods and services produced are for the market, whether the ownership is public or private, as well as the type of production. The definitions and terms used are based on the guidelines provided in the 'System of National Accounts' (SNA) by the United Nations and the 'European System of Accounts' (ESA) by Eurostat. In the wage and employment statistics the institutional sectors are grouped differently than normal. Non-financial corporations, finacial corporations, households and organizations are grouped together and divided by whether the ownership is public, private or foreign. Public administration and services is unchanged and is divided in to central government, state government, local government and social security funds. 'The Rest of the World' is a separate institutional sector, which is grouped together with unknown sector, if any.

employer's main activity

Main activity is attached to the employer that pays the wage. An employer is grouped in to the main activity in which he has the largest activity. A person may have several employers, and the employer from which the most wage is paid is set to be the person's main activity of work. Main activity is not necessarily the actual economic activity of the work done for the wages paid as an employer may cover several economic activities. Main activity is based on the international statistical classification of economic activities NACE rev. 2. The first and second level are directly comparable. The third level opens up a few subgroups in order to best portray the national economy. On the third level there are 93 economic activities.

measure

Employees (main job)

Main job of an employee is set to be the main activity and institutional sector of the employer from which the largest wage is received. An employee only counts once.

Main- and minor jobs

Counts the total of main- and minor jobs together in the institutional sector/economic activity. An employee can have multiple counts due to several jobs in each institutional sector/economic activity.

Minor jobs

Counts the number of minor jobs in the institutional sector/economic activity. An employee can have multiple counts. Main jobs are excluded.

Jobs across economic activities

This value portrays the number of employees in each institutional sector/main activity when minor jobs are also included. An employee can only count once in each institutional sector/economic activity, but several times across. Thus the number is higher than the measure of number of employees (main job).

Employers

Counts the number of employers. Employers count only once, which is in their main activity.”