Glossary:Labour force

From Statistics Explained

The labour force or the economically active population, also shortened to the active population, includes both employed and unemployed people, but not the economically inactive, such as pre-school children, school children, students and pensioners.

Further Eurostat information

• The European Union Labour Force Survey: main characteristics of the national surveys

Related concepts

• Employed person
• Employee
• Labour force survey
• Unemployed