electricsheepasia/asia-owid-annual-working-hours-per-person-employed

Annual Working Hours Per Person Employed | Asia (Our World in Data)

🌏 130 observations · 3 Asia countries · 1970–2016 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 130 observations of Annual Working Hours Per Person Employed data across 3 Asia countries, spanning 1970–2016.

About the source

• Source: Our World in Data
• Publisher: Our World in Data
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Annual Working Hours Per Person Employed

Geographic coverage

3 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
JPN	47	1970	2016
TUR	47	1970	2016
ISR	36	1981	2016

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
country_name	string	—	Israel
country_iso3	string	—	ISR
year	int64	—	1981
Average hours worked per person employed	float64	—	1966.0292

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-owid-annual-working-hours-per-person-employed")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["country_iso3"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Average hours worked per person employed")

Citation

@misc{asia_owid_annual_working_hours_per_person_employed_2016,
  title        = {Annual Working Hours Per Person Employed | Asia (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2016},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-working-hours-per-person-employed},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-owid-annual-working-hours-per-person-employed}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepasia

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Provenance: ingested 2026-06-02 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-working-hours-per-person-employed