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Table 2 Distribution of key characteristics in student jobs and in flexible jobs

From: Are student jobs flexible jobs? Using online data to study employers’ preferences in Slovakia

 

Student jobs

Non-student jobs

Flexible jobs

Traditional jobs

Auxiliary worker

12.4

3.6

15.5

2.5

Qualified labourer

22.4

15.3

29.4

13.8

Administrative worker

19

11.9

15.2

12.1

Qualified technical worker

13.4

23.4

10.2

24.5

Qualified non/technical worker

23.7

27.2

22.2

27.6

Lower and middle management

8.8

17.1

7.2

17.8

Top management

0.3

1.7

0.3

1.8

Agriculture, forestry and fishing

0.4

0.7

0.7

0.7

Mining, quarrying and manufacturing

15.6

14.1

19.1

13.5

Construction

1.8

2.8

2.5

2.7

Wholesale and retail, transportation and storage, accommodation and food

29.8

24.1

32.9

23.3

Information and communication

8.9

13.5

5.2

14.3

Financial and insurance activities

5.7

6.2

4.4

6.4

Professional, scientific, technical, administrative and support service activities

33.5

34.9

28.8

35.7

Public administration, education, social work activities

3

2.9

4.4

2.7

Other services

1.4

0.9

2

0.7

Mean minimum educationa

3.3

5

3.5

5.1

Mean maximum educationa

7.3

7.1

6.6

7.2

Experience

13.2

31.6

16.2

32.4

No skills

32.9

25.9

47.9

23.2

Administrative skills

8.6

8.1

9

8

Computer skills—user

36.9

35.7

30.7

36.6

Computer skills—programmer

5.8

4.3

3.2

4.7

Computer skills—administrator

1.1

1.8

0.6

1.9

Language skills

53.5

63.7

38.5

66.6

Agency offer

31.9

42

34.4

42.3

Mean minimum salary (euro per month)

728

1050

629

1103

Bratislavský region

40.9

43.5

37.7

44.3

Banskobystrický

5.4

4.7

6.4

4.5

Žilinský

6.7

5.8

7.8

5.6

Trenčiansky

5.8

5.7

6.7

5.5

Trnavský

7.8

6.8

9.1

6.5

Nitriansky

7.2

6.8

8.4

6.6

Prešovský

6.1

4.4

6.6

4.2

Košický

7.2

6.8

7.6

6.7

Slovakia—not specified

3.0

3.1

3.0

3.1

Abroad

10.0

12.4

6.9

13.1

  1. aMean minimum and maximum education is not a distributional value, but the mean value from the educational scale: 1—primary, 2—secondary school student, 3—secondary without leaving certificate, 4—secondary with leaving certificate, 5—university student, 6—higher professional education, 7—BA, 8—MA, 9—PhD
  2. bSalary was recalculated per month and in euros. We applied cut-off points 10–9999 for minimum salary and 10–50,000 for maximum salary
  3. cDue to the possibility of multiple assignments of positions to occupational groups, sector and skills, the number of observations analysed for occupational group is 709,552, for sector 654,335, for skills 688,747 and for regions 580,587. The calculation of wages is based on N = 58,289 due to the large number of missing values. For all other categories, N = 493,853