Table

Employees (15-74 years), by patterns of working time, sex and age. In the main job. 1 000 and per cent
	2012
	1 000				Per cent
	15-74 years	15-24 years	25-54 years	55-74 years	15-74 years	15-24 years	25-54 years	55-74 years
¹Since the questions on work hours are only directed to a part of the LFS sample, a different weight is used, and the total number of employees differ somewhat from figures published earlier.
²Regularly work outside Monday to Friday from 6 am to 6 pm.
Both sexes
Employees, total¹	2 412	338	1 637	437	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Ordinary hours	1 612	150	1 137	325	66.8	44.4	69.5	74.2
Outside ordinary hours²	800	188	499	113	33.2	55.6	30.5	25.8
Shift work	571	109	379	84	23.7	32.1	23.1	19.1
Not shift work	229	79	121	29	9.5	23.5	7.4	6.6

Males
Employees, total¹	1 234	168	844	222	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Ordinary hours	880	91	611	178	71.3	54.2	72.4	80.1
Outside ordinary hours²	354	77	233	44	28.7	45.8	27.6	19.9
Shift work	244	47	169	29	19.8	28.0	20.0	12.9
Not shift work	110	30	64	16	8.9	17.8	7.6	7.0

Females
Employees, total¹	1 178	170	793	215	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Ordinary hours	732	59	526	146	62.2	34.9	66.4	68.1
Outside ordinary hours²	446	111	266	69	37.8	65.1	33.6	31.9
Shift work	327	62	210	55	27.7	36.1	26.5	25.6
Not shift work	119	49	56	13	10.1	29.0	7.1	6.2