This tallies with a report from Eurostat earlier this week, which showed that Hungary is one of nine EU states where industry is the leading economic activity, accounting for a 26.8% share of the gross value added (GVA) in the Hungarian economy as a whole.
The 19.7% ratio of employment in industry in Hungary is well over the 15.3% rate for the European Union as a whole, albeit well down from 23.7% ten years earlier.
A little less than 24% of employed Hungarians worked in commerce, transport, accommodation or food service jobs last year, nearly level with the ratio a decade earlier.
Jobs in public administration, defense, education, healthcare and social services made up 22.8% of the total last year, up from 20.7% ten years earlier.
About 10.6% of employed Hungarians worked in professional, scientific and technical jobs or administrative and support service activities in 2016, up from 6.1% ten years earlier.
Some 6.3% worked in construction, 3.0% in information and communications jobs, and 2.0% in financial or insurance positions last year, the Eurostat figures show.
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