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Total employment rate for some countries (Eurostat)

Data table via SPARQL Published 18 Jan 2014 Last modified 31 Mar 2025

The employment rate is calculated by dividing the number of persons aged 20 to 64 in employment by the total population of the same age group. Note: countries are not comparable due to differences in culture and social policies.

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year	country	employmentPct
"2005"	"Austria"@en	"71.7"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal>
"2005"	"Denmark"@en	"78"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal>
"2005"	"Estonia"@en	"72"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal>
"2005"	"France"@en	"69.4"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal>
"2005"	"Italy"@en	"61.6"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal>
"2005"	"Romania"@en	"63.6"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal>
"2005"	"Spain"@en	"67.2"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal>
"2005"	"United Kingdom"@en	"75.2"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal>
"2005"	"United States"@en	"74.8"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal>
"2006"	"Austria"@en	"73.2"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal>

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The following info can be used by a system developer / database administrator in order to retrieve this dataset programmatically over the web using a SPARQL client.

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SPARQL Endpoint:
http://semantic.eea.europa.eu/sparql

SPARQL Query:


        PREFIX qb: <http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#>
PREFIX sdmx-measure: <http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/measure#>
PREFIX sdmx-dimension: <http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#>
PREFIX skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
PREFIX geo: <http://rdfdata.eionet.europa.eu/eurostat/dic/geo#>

SELECT str(year(?date)) AS ?year ?country ?employmentPct
WHERE {
    _:tsdec410 qb:dataSet <http://rdfdata.eionet.europa.eu/eurostat/data/tsdec410>.
    _:tsdec410 sdmx-dimension:freq  <http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/code#freq-A> .
    _:tsdec410 sdmx-dimension:timePeriod ?date .
    _:tsdec410 sdmx-dimension:refArea?geo .
FILTER(?date >= "2005-01-01"^^xsd:date && ?geo IN (geo:AT, geo:DK, geo:EE, geo:ES,
 geo:FR, geo:IT, geo:RO, geo:UK, geo:US))
    _:tsdec410 sdmx-measure:obsValue ?employmentPct.
    ?geo skos:prefLabel ?country
} order by ?date ?country

Error when running query:


            Error. Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/plone/buildout-cache/eggs/Products.ZSPARQLMethod-2.3-py2.7.egg/Products/ZSPARQLMethod/Method.py", line 287, in run_with_timeout
    ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/plone/buildout-cache/eggs/Products.ZSPARQLMethod-2.3-py2.7.egg/Products/ZSPARQLMethod/Method.py", line 215, in query_and_get_result
    result = sparql.query(*args, timeout = kwargs.get("timeout", 0) or 0)
  File "/plone/buildout-cache/eggs/sparql_client-3.8-py2.7.egg/sparql.py", line 747, in query
    return s.query(query, timeout, raw=raw)
  File "/plone/buildout-cache/eggs/sparql_client-3.8-py2.7.egg/sparql.py", line 416, in query
    return q.query(query, timeout, raw=raw)
  File "/plone/buildout-cache/eggs/sparql_client-3.8-py2.7.egg/sparql.py", line 571, in query
    response = self._request(statement, timeout)
  File "/plone/buildout-cache/eggs/sparql_client-3.8-py2.7.egg/sparql.py", line 558, in _request
    response = self._build_response(query, opener, buf, timeout)
  File "/plone/buildout-cache/eggs/sparql_client-3.8-py2.7.egg/sparql.py", line 543, in _build_response
    timeout if timeout > 0 else None)
  File "/plone/buildout-cache/eggs/sparql_client-3.8-py2.7.egg/sparql.py", line 514, in _get_response
    response = opener.open(request, timeout=timeout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 429, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 447, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1228, in http_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1198, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno -2] No address found>