The source provides the following additional information:
"The employed comprise all persons of working age who, during a specified brief period, were in one of the following categories: a) paid employment (whether at work or with a job but not at work); or b) self-employment (whether at work or with an enterprise but not at work). Data are disaggregated by status in employment according to the latest version of the International Standard Classification of Status in Employment (ICSE-93). Status in employment refers to the type of explicit or implicit contract of employment the person has with other persons or organizations. The basic criteria used to define the groups of the classification are the type of economic risk and the type of authority over establishments and other workers which the job incumbents have or will have."
Percentage points missing or exceeding 100 percent are due to rounding.
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Costa Rica: employed population share by status 2015-2019
Around **** percent of the employed Costa Ricans held “paid employment jobs” in 2019, or jobs where they held employment contracts with right to basic remuneration. Additionally, the shares of own-account workers has continuously increased in recent years, reaching **** percent in the last year. The share of employees in Costa Rica's workforce was among the highest for Latin America and the Caribbean.
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ILO. (May 26, 2021). Distribution of total employed population in Costa Rica from 2015 to 2019, by status [Graph]. In ƽ. Retrieved July 23, 2026, from /statistics/1039387/distribution-employed-population-status-costa-rica/
ILO. "Distribution of total employed population in Costa Rica from 2015 to 2019, by status." Chart. May 26, 2021. ƽ. Accessed July 23, 2026. /statistics/1039387/distribution-employed-population-status-costa-rica/
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ILO. "Distribution of Total Employed Population in Costa Rica from 2015 to 2019, by Status." ƽ, ƽ Inc., 26 May 2021, /statistics/1039387/distribution-employed-population-status-costa-rica/
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