This indicator shows platform workers who work more than 20 hours per week via platforms or earn at least half of their income via platforms. Regular platform workers are defined as those who had worked on digital platforms at least occasionally in the past 6 months. Working at least occasionally aggregates three answer categories: 'I worked irregularly or occasionally, from time to time’, ‘I worked regularly for a period of less than three months’ and ‘I worked regularly for a period of more than three months’.
This indicator is an aggregation of responses to two questions: Think about the most recent week that you have worked via online platforms. ‘How many hours per week did you spend searching or waiting for tasks/ work assignments, and how many implementing them?’ And ‘In the most recent month when you worked via online platforms, what percentage of your overall personal income (after taxes) came from this work via online platforms?’.
This indicator is disaggregated by the education level of the respondent. Responses were grouped into three levels of education according to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED): “Low” (ISCED 1-2), “Medium” (ISCED 3-4) and “High” (ISCED 5-8).
ISCED levels are:
More information on the methodological aspects of EIGE’s survey of platform workers can be obtained in the technical report.
Available flags:
| b | break in time series | c | confidential |
| d | definition differs, see metadata | e | estimated |
| f | forecast | i | see metadata |
| m | imputed | n | not significant |
| p | provisional | r | revised |
| s | Eurostat estimate | u | low reliability |
| x | dropped due to insufficient sample size | y | unreliable due to small sample size |
| z | not applicable |