The charts delineate the distribution of employees working in various range of hours per week in the industrial sector in 2002, across four countries: France, Denmark, Sweden, and UK.
Overall, the most common weekly working time were from 36 to 40 hours in all nations except for Sweden, where many workers tended to spend only 31-35 hours for their jobs.
In detail, both Denmark and the United Kingdom shared a similar distribution of employee contribution, with the majority attributed to the 36-40 hours range (around 75 and 60 workers respectively). Despite having higher figure for this group, the remaining numbers for Denmark was fewer than those of UK, with the former ranging from 5 to over 20 job-holders while the latter having around 13 to 30.
On the other hand, the number of workers spending different hours per week in France was approximately evenly distributed, since there were no significant gaps between the time cohorts. As for Sweeden, it was a common practice for employees to work around 36-40 hour per week, with nearly 100 of them spending these amount of time. Conversely, at most only around 25 job-holders chose to work in the other timeframes.