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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8216

23 May 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/employment
Households where both partners work is EU norm

Luxembourg, 22/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - According to a study published on 21 May by Eurostat, the most common situation in the European Union is for both partners to have a job. For couples without children this share ranged in 2000 from 42% in Spain to 79% in the United Kingdom (in 1999), while for couples with children it ranged from 44%, again in Spain, to 74% in Portugal. In every Member State for which data is available the relative importance of dual participant couples has shown an...

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