INTRODUCTION
1. Information on hours of work enables: classification of employed persons according to the number of hours worked; and classification of employed persons into full-time and part-time status. The general notion of hours of work encompasses a number of related concepts: usual hours worked; hours actually worked; normal hours of work; and hours paid for (including both normal hours and overtime hours). This standard discusses the concepts of actual and usual hours of work as applied in the Labour Force Survey. More detailed discussion of the concept of hours worked is available in the Labour Statistics Concepts Sources and Methods
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