According to statistics published by the Central Statistics Office in the quarterly national household survey, employment in agriculture using the International Labour Office definition has fallen from 127,300 in 2000 to 112,100 in 2004. The International Labour Office is the standard international classification which classifies respondents as economically active, in employment or unemployed, or economically inactive — not in the labour force — on the basis of their experience in the week before the survey.
Year
|
Employment in Agriculture ’000
|
2000
|
127.3
|
2001
|
116.2
|
2002
|
117.6
|
2003
|
111.5
|
2004
|
112.1
|
Source: CSO (QNHS).