Annual Working Hours Per Person Employed for 3 Asian Countries, 1970–2016

From 1970 to 2016, this dataset provides 130 observations of annual working hours per employed person across three Asian countries. It is a repackaged subset of the Our World in Data collection, published by Electric Sheep Asia. The data is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Use Cases

• Analyzing long-term trends in labor productivity based on annual working hours data.
• Comparing working hour patterns across different Asian economies.
• Modeling the relationship between working hours and other macroeconomic indicators for the covered time period.

Strengths

• Contains 130 observations spanning a 46-year period from 1970 to 2016.
• Covers three distinct Asian countries, allowing for cross-country comparison.
• Derived from the authoritative Our World in Data source.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset's small scale of 3 countries may limit broader regional analysis.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Our World in Data

Collection Method

Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia from the original source.

Time Range

1970–2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 11:59:05; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Asia (3 specific countries)