{
  "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": 2,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Employment rate by NUTS 2 region, people aged 20-64, 2025",
  "valueHeading": "Employment rate (%)",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest of the 244 EU regions with a published value, with the EU aggregate for reference.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU average",
  "note": "Mayotte is lower than every region shown, at 36.9%, and is excluded here: it is covered by a separate annual survey, which makes it not directly comparable with the rest of the series.",
  "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 rates by educational attainment level, citizenship and NUTS 2 region",
    "code": "lfst_r_lfe2emprtn",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "citizen": "TOTAL",
      "isced11": "TOTAL",
      "age": "Y20-64",
      "sex": "T",
      "unit": "PC"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-09-11",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-09-10",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/lfst_r_lfe2emprtn",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/lfst_r_lfe2emprtn/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": "Warszawski stołeczny (PL)",
      "value": 86.9,
      "gap_to_reference": 10.8,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Praha (CZ)",
      "value": 86,
      "gap_to_reference": 9.9,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Åland (FI)",
      "value": 85.5,
      "gap_to_reference": 9.4,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": 76.1,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": true,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Campania (IT)",
      "value": 50.8,
      "gap_to_reference": -25.3,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Calabria (IT)",
      "value": 50.3,
      "gap_to_reference": -25.8,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Guyane (FR)",
      "value": 50,
      "gap_to_reference": -26.1,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "d"
    }
  ]
}