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  "study": {
    "slug": "european-regional-employment-divide",
    "title": "Employment Rates Vary Far More Between EU Regions Than Between Countries",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/european-regional-employment-divide"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Employment rate, people aged 20-64, 2025",
  "valueHeading": "Employment rate (%)",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest of the 27 EU Member States, with the EU aggregate for reference. The 2030 EU target is 78.0%.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU average",
  "note": null,
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Employment and labour force by sex and age — annual data",
    "code": "lfsi_emp_a",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "indic_em": "EMP_LFS",
      "unit": "PC_POP, THS_PER",
      "age": "Y20-64",
      "sex": "T, F, M"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-10-22",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-09-10",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/lfsi_emp_a",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/lfsi_emp_a/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Malta",
      "value": 83.6,
      "gap_to_reference": 7.5,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Netherlands",
      "value": 83.4,
      "gap_to_reference": 7.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Czechia",
      "value": 82.9,
      "gap_to_reference": 6.8,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": 76.1,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
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      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Greece",
      "value": 71,
      "gap_to_reference": -5.1,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Romania",
      "value": 69,
      "gap_to_reference": -7.1,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Italy",
      "value": 67.6,
      "gap_to_reference": -8.5,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}