ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

362Marin BăbeanuThe professional status of occupied population reflects the way a peopleobtain their incomes, as consequence of exerting activities like: wage worker,employer, and workers on their own, unremunerated familial worker, member ofan agricultural company or of a non-agricultural cooperative society.Table 4Structure of the occupied population in the South-West Oltenia area, according to professionalstatus and age groups, in 2005ProfessionalstatusTotal ofoccupiedpopulation(thousandpeople)Out of who, in work age (%)TotalAge groups (years old):15-64 15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-6465yearoldandoverTotal 1043 91.0 8.3 24.9 23.7 21.8 12.3 9.0Wage workers 517 99.0 6.2 30.3 31.1 26.8 5.5 0.1Employers 11 99.0 - 19.8 43.5 29.3 6.4 1.0Workers ontheir ownFamilialworkersunremuneratedMember of anagriculturalsociety or of acooperativesociety254 78.0 2.0 14.3 18.2 20.4 23.1 22.0260 85.9 18.9 24.7 13.8 13.0 15.5 14.1- 85.9 - - 41.9 44.0 - 14.1Source: Romania’s Statistics Annual, 2006, p. 167Wage earners usually form part of the structure of occupied population,according to its professional status, 76.2% respectively; people who work ontheir own detain a proportion of 13.9%; familial workers unremunerated occupya proportion of 8.3% and employers, 1.6%. Out of the total number of occupiedpeople, 97.8% are between 15-64 years old (9% between 15-24, 28.3% between25-34, 27.5% between 35-44, 24.6% between 45-54 and 8% between 55-64),and 2.2% are 65 or over 65 years old.The structure regarding activities of the occupied population in the South-West Oltenia developing region proves that 49% of the occupied people work inagriculture and forestry, about 24% in industry and constructions and about 27%in services and other activities (7.6% in trade, 0.8% in hotels-restaurants domain,3.6% in transports, storage and communications, 0.8% in financial