electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-sdg-0852-sex-age-rt-sdg-indicator-8-5-2-unemployment-rate-by-sex-and-a

SDG indicator 8.5.2 - Unemployment rate by sex and age (%) | Asia (ILOSTAT)

🌏 6,286 observations · 48 Asia countries · 2000–2025 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 6,286 observations of Unemployment data across 48 Asia countries, spanning 2000–2025, covering 1 distinct indicators.

About the source

ILOSTAT is the ILO's central statistics database, the leading global source for labour statistics. It compiles indicators across employment, unemployment, wages, working time, child labour, informal economy, social protection, occupational injuries, and SDG decent work targets — drawing on national labour force surveys, household income surveys, establishment surveys, and administrative records. Coverage spans 200+ economies, with the ILO's Department of Statistics responsible for harmonisation.

• Source: ILOSTAT
• Publisher: International Labour Organization (ILO)
• License: cc-by-4.0
• Topic: Unemployment

Methodology

Data pulled directly from the ILOSTAT REST API at https://rplumber.ilo.org/data/indicator?id=SDG_0852_SEX_AGE_RT and filtered to Asia ISO3 country codes. ILOSTAT harmonises raw survey microdata using ICLS (International Conference of Labour Statisticians) definitions; sources are flagged in the source.label column for traceability.

Geographic coverage

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

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
CYP	234	2000	2025
TUR	234	2000	2025
KOR	234	2000	2025
JPN	234	2000	2025
PSE	225	2000	2025
GEO	219	2000	2024
SGP	219	2000	2024
IDN	216	2000	2023
THA	216	2000	2024
LKA	210	2000	2024
AZE	207	2000	2022
MNG	204	2001	2024
PHL	204	2000	2023
ISR	189	2000	2024
TWN	189	2000	2020
...	33 more countries

Indicators (sample)

• SDG_0852_SEX_AGE_RT — SDG indicator 8.5.2 - Unemployment rate by sex and age (%)

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
ref_area	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code	AFG
ref_area.label	string	Country name in English	Afghanistan
source	string	ILOSTAT source code (e.g. labour force survey)	BA:15715
source.label	string	Source name in English	LFS - Labour Force Survey
indicator	string	ILOSTAT indicator code	SDG_0852_SEX_AGE_RT
indicator.label	string	Indicator name in English	SDG indicator 8.5.2 - Unemployment ra…
sex	string	Disaggregation by sex (SEX_T = total, SEX_M = male, SEX_F = female)	SEX_T
sex.label	string	—	Total
classif1	string	First classification variable (age, education, status, etc.)	AGE_YTHADULT_YGE15
classif1.label	string	—	Age (Youth, adults): 15+
time	int64	Observation year	2021
obs_value	float64	Observed indicator value (unit varies — see indicator definition)	5.679
obs_status	string	Observation status flag (e.g. provisional, unreliable)	B
obs_status.label	string	—	Break in series
note_classif	string	—	C6:2362
note_classif.label	string	—	Nonstandard age group: Excluding ages…
note_indicator	string	—	I11:264
note_indicator.label	string	—	Break in series: Methodology revised
note_source	string	—	R1:3513_S3:8
note_source.label	string	—	Repository: ILO-STATISTICS - Micro da…

Disaggregation dimensions

The following columns provide disaggregation dimensions:

• sex (4 unique values): SEX_T, SEX_M, SEX_F, SEX_O

Data quality & caveats

• Data is annual frequency. Some indicators also publish monthly or quarterly series — those are not included here.
• When an indicator has multiple sources for the same country×year, the ILO-selected 'best source' is used.
• Disaggregation columns (sex, classif1, classif2) are non-null only when the indicator publishes that breakdown.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-sdg-0852-sex-age-rt-sdg-indicator-8-5-2-unemployment-rate-by-sex-and-a")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["ref_area"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = (df[df["indicator"] == "SDG_0852_SEX_AGE_RT"]
          .sort_values("time"))
sample.plot(x="time", y="obs_value", title="SDG_0852_SEX_AGE_RT")

Pivot to country × year matrix

matrix = (df[df["indicator"] == "SDG_0852_SEX_AGE_RT"]
          .pivot_table(index="time", columns="ref_area", values="obs_value"))
print(matrix.tail())

Citation

@misc{asia_ilo_sdg_0852_sex_age_rt_sdg_indicator_8_5_2_unemployment_rate_by_sex_and_a_2025,
  title        = {SDG indicator 8.5.2 - Unemployment rate by sex and age (%) | Asia (ILOSTAT)},
  author       = {International Labour Organization (ILO)},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=SDG_0852_SEX_AGE_RT},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-ilo-sdg-0852-sex-age-rt-sdg-indicator-8-5-2-unemployment-rate-by-sex-and-a}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © International Labour Organization (ILO). 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 2026-05-25 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://www.ilo.org/shinyapps/bulkexplorer/?id=SDG_0852_SEX_AGE_RT