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The gender composition among those countries that released a breakdown of their seasonal permits 20 (Figure 8) reveals that in some countries the inflows are evenly split between men and women (EE, HR, LV), in other men are largest category (IT, LT, SI, SK), whereas especially in Spain, but also in Hungary 21 and LV women prevail. These patterns are the same for both total issuance and for the agricultural sector alone. Figure 8. Authorisations for the purpose of seasonal work by length of validity, economic sector, and member state, 2018

Notes: Bulgaria not included as figures are not provided with a gender breakdown; Romania dropped as only 2 permits have been reportedly issued. Source: own elaboration of Eurostat data

Before moving to the Section 4, it is helpful to sum up the main points of this analysis so far. Based on LFS data, we noticed that the agricultural workforce is

20 Authorisations issued for the purpose of seasonal work by economic sector, sex and citizenship (migr_ressw2); https://appsso.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/nui/show.do?dataset=migr_ressw2&lang=en. 21 But see the very low numbers of the latter.

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