Portugal: accommodation & food service industry employees 2021

The number of employees in the accommodation and food service industry in Portugal decreased by 5,802 employees (-2 percent) in 2021 in comparison to the previous year. Nevertheless, the last two years in this industry recorded a significant higher number of employees than the preceding years.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the accommodation and food service activities industry in Portugal from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021b	284,290
2020	290,092
2019	317,376
2018	296,315
2017	276,896
2016	254,245
2015	235,010
2014	222,067
2013	215,065
2012	220,726

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Release date

March 2024

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Portugal

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to code I of CE Rev 2.

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