Section 2 Member State performance in creating jobs average hours worked in nonmanufacturing sectors contributed to maintaining the numbers in em ployment, especially in Ireland and Portugal, where they declined by almost 1% a year, and Sweden, where they fell by over 1% a year, a two countries where this was not the case were Denmark and Greece, in the former employment falling by more than total hours worked and in the latter rising by less (Graph 31).
Sezione 2 Risultati ottenuti dagli Stati membri nella creazione di posti di lavoro lavorate (grafico 33).