Employment data are disseminated in numbers. Employment refers to domestic rather than national employment. This concept is the same as that used in national accounting and is applied in the analysis of the labor force nationally.
Some tables distinguish between wage earners and non-wage earners.
We define wage-earners as all persons over the minimum age required who were working during the reference period for an employer in the private or public sector for remuneration in the form of wage, salary, commission or payment in cash or in kind. Non-wage earners are all those persons who exercise a gainful activity without being bound by a labor contract or other agreement with an employer. The basic principle is that there can be no status of subordination, through a labor contract of agreement, with an employer. These two broad categories of sources are used complementarily in estimating the labor force. Censuses and surveys serve mainly as checks, while government departments are the primary sources of Ministry of Employment and Labor data.