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Trade union density corresponds to the ratio of wage and salary earners that are trade union members, divided by the total number of wage and salary earners (OECD Labour Force Statistics). Density is calculated using survey data, wherever possible, and administrative data adjusted for non-active and self-employed members otherwise. Data are expressed in percentages and presented from 1980.
This dataset also comprises statistics on the number of active trade union members and the number of wage and salary earners. Data on union membership are broken down by source of data (administrative or survey data). Membership corresponds to the number of wage and salary earners that are members of a trade union. Total number of wage and salary earners are taken from OECD Labour Force Statistics.

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Bibliographic citation:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Employment and Labour Market Statistics. UK Data Service. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5257/oecd/labour/2019

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30 October 2019

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Start: 1960
End: 2018
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Copyright: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Trade UnionAbstract

Trade union density corresponds to the ratio of wage and salary earners that are trade union members, divided by the total number of wage and salary earners (OECD Labour Force Statistics). Density is calculated using survey data, wherever possible, and administrative data adjusted for non-active and self-employed members otherwise. Data are expressed in percentages and presented from 1980.
This dataset also comprises statistics on the number of active trade union members and the number of wage and salary earners. Data on union membership are broken down by source of data (administrative or survey data). Membership corresponds to the number of wage and salary earners that are members of a trade union. Total number of wage and salary earners are taken from OECD Labour Force Statistics.

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Get in touchhttp://ukdataservice.ac.uk/help/get-in-touch.aspxDirect source

Bibliographic citation:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development: Employment and Labour Market Statistics. UK Data Service. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5257/oecd/labour/2019

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Yearly

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Source and methodology of the OECD data on trade union membership and trade union density/metadata/OECD/ELM/UnionDensity_Sourcesandmethods.pdfReference period

Start: 1960
End: 2018

Date last updated

30 October 2019

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