N° 15/2013 Voters in Luxembourg

Voters represent 57.4 % of the total population - Luxembourg and foreigners- aged 18 and over. In the voter district Centre, the share is only 45.4 %. People aged 60 and over account for nearly a third of the voters. Half of voters have a job (49.9 %) and a fifth is retired (21.1 %). 2.6 % of voters are unemployed and 7.8 % are pupils or students. A little more than half of voters (51.1 %) are employed in the private sector and 36.3 % are public officials (civil servants, manual workers, employees). Nearly half of the voters (44.3 %) are working in the public and broader public sector, that is to say in public administration, education and health and social work and only one voter out of ten works in industry and construction. 42.0 % of all voters have reached a "medium" level of education (completed secondary education) and nearly a third of voters (31.4 %) a “low” level of education (primary and lower secondary). A quarter of voters (23.8 %) have a “higher” level of education (tertiary). Professions can be grouped into four broad classes. The "skilled white collar" (executives, intellectual and scientific professions, technicians) represent 47.3 % of the total electorate. Their share is the highest in the voter district Centre (57.3 %) and lowest in the northern district (39.0 %). The "unskilled blue collar" (unskilled manual workers ) represent 11.3 % of the total electorate . In the northern and southern voter districts, this category is more present, with 13.8 % and 12.5 %, respectively, against only 8.2 % in the Centre district and 10.7 % in the East district. The most common type of household among voters is the "couple with child(ren)”: 37.2 % of the voters are living in such households. In the total electorate, the proportion of people living in households consisting of a couple without child(ren) is 23.2 % and the proportion of people living alone is 17.0 %.