Germany: manufacture of wearing apparel number of employees 2021

The number of employees in the wearing apparel manufacturing industry in Germany declined to 30,978 employees in 2021. Therefore, 2021 marks the lowest number of employees in this industry during the observed period.
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 wearing apparel manufacturing sector in Germany from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	30,978
2020	35,844
2019	38,481
2018b	39,596
2017	38,823
2016	39,730
2015	39,630
2014	42,339
2013	40,398
2012	41,890

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Release date

March 2024

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Germany

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
Structural business statistics (SBS) describes the structure, conduct and performance of economic activities, down to the most detailed activity level (several hundred economic sectors)
Data coverage corresponds to Section C14 of CE Rev 2.

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