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Increasing the value of age: guidance in employers’ age management strategies

3.2.3. The relative share of older workers differs across sectors
There is also a difference in the number (and percentage) of older employees in
different sectors within the EU (Table 3). In manufacturing and in accommodation
and food services the percentage of older employees is relatively low. In
education sector and in real estate activities the percentage of older employees is
relatively high.

Table 3. Employees by age groups per sector (EU-27, 2012, including percentage
of older employees in the total working population)

Number (* 1 000) %
15-64 55-64 55-64
Accommodation and food service activities 9 539 953 10
Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies 188 34 18
Activities of households as employers 2 600 492 19
Administrative and support service activities 8 547 1 215 14
Agriculture, forestry and fishing 9 676 2 137 22
Arts, entertainment and recreation 3 402 490 14
Construction 15 261 1 994 13
Education 15 760 2 934 19
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 1 653 259 16
Financial and insurance activities 6 440 808 13
Human health and social work activities 22 502 3 745 17
Information and communication 6 304 562 9
Manufacturing 33 333 4 420 13
Mining and quarrying 834 108 13
Other service activities 5 068 748 15
Professional, scientific and technical activities 10 640 1 420 13
Public administration and defence; compulsory social 14 928 2 549 17
security
Real estate activities 1 666 334 20
Transportation and storage 10 770 1 627 15
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and 1 646 251 15
remediation activities
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and
motorcycles 29 619 3 426 12
Unknown 1 265 167 13
EU-27 211 641 30 671 14
Source: Eurostat, 2012b.

3.2.4. Older workers overrepresented in SMEs
Differences can be seen in the age composition of different size classes of
enterprises. A recent European Commission study on SMEs and the labour

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