Definition: Inactive population
Demography
The economically inactive population comprises all persons who were neither "employed" nor "unemployed" during the short reference period used to measure "current activity". This population is split into four groups:
- Attendant at educational institutions;
- Retired;
- Engaged in family duties;
- Other economically inactive.
Source:
Eurostat, "Guidelines and table programme for the Community programme of population and housing censuses in 2001, Vol. 2: Table Programme", Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1999
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