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Table 1 Composition of working age population

From: The impact of minimum wages on informal and formal labor market outcomes: evidence from Indonesia

 

1997

2000

2007

Inactive

28.0%

21.3%

21.2%

 average age in years

32.7

32.6

33.7

 male

17.5%

17.4%

19.5%

 education completed

   

  no school completed

41.7%

28.3%

21.7%

  elementary school

28.9%

29.4%

27.3%

  middle school

13.5%

18.6%

21.8%

  high school

14.6%

20.7%

25.2%

  higher education

1.4%

3.1%

4.0%

 job searching (of inactives)

19.0%

7.3%

6.7%

Students

10.5%

9.8%

10.0%

Active

61.5%

68.9%

68.8%

 average age in years

36.2

36.5

38.0

 male

62.0%

58.3%

58.7%

 education completed

   

  no school completed

41.5%

33.1%

26.8%

  elementary school

26.5%

28.0%

26.1%

  middle school

11.1%

14.0%

15.7%

  high school

16.5%

18.7%

23.1%

  higher education

4.3%

6.2%

8.3%

 formal

49.2%

46.0%

35.7%

 informal

50.8%

54.0%

64.3%

  unpaid family workers

20.9%

26.2%

23.6%

 full-time

69.2%

68.6%

67.6%

  formal

56.5%

53.2%

42.3%

  informal

43.5%

46.8%

57.7%

unpaid family workers

16.9%

20.1%

18.2%

  1. Note: These statistics are based on a panel data of overall 80,739 observations, or 39,201 individuals. The sub-population under consideration are individuals between 15 and 60 years old (71,600 observations, 36,261 individuals). These statistics are weighted using cross-sectional weights of the respective survey year provided by the IFLS in order to provide a representative sample