Relationship between self-employed workers and urban land area over time in the United States

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This scatter chart displays self-employed workers (% of total employment) against urban land area (km²). The data is from the countries entity and is filtered where the country is the United States.

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There are 3 fields used on this chart (including filters):
  • self-employed workers: Self-employed workers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners or in cooperative, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs." i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced. Self-employed workers include four sub-categories of employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives, and contributing family workers. This field is expressed in % of total employment.
  • country: Name of country.
  • urban land area: Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons. This field is expressed in km².

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This chart is based on data from: World Bank

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