According to the three-sector theory, employment shifts from the primary sector (raw material extraction), to the secondary sector (industry, energy, and construction), and then to the tertiary sector (services) as economies develop. The `eurostat_employment` data set contains EUROSTAT data on employment, aggregated for both sexes and all ages, distributed by economic activity in 2008 for 29 EUROSTAT member countries.
A related variable is the logarithm of gross domestic product per person in EUR at current prices (`logGDP`). For exploratory purposes, it is also categorised as a binary variable indicating values above or below the median (`Binary GDP`).
The employment composition has 11 parts:
Primary sector
Manufacturing
Energy
Construction
Trade repair transport
Hotels restaurants
Financial intermediation
Real estate
Educ admin defense soc sec
Health social work
Other services
eurostat_employmentAn object of class data.frame with 29 rows and 17 columns.