Percentages of different types of shift schedules worked by non-day workers in European Union in 2000.19 Only about one-quarter of the population is exclusively on a daytime shift
| Self-employed | Employed | |||
| Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| Split shifts (with a break of at least 4 h in between) | 10.2 | 9.1 | 6.3 | 5.9 |
| Permanent night shifts | 12.4 | 16.7 | 6.8 | 7.3 |
| Permanent afternoon shifts | 2.2 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 3.2 |
| Permanent morning shifts | 1.5 | 12.1 | 2.4 | 4.0 |
| Alternating morning and afternoon shifts | 27.7 | 42.4 | 27.4 | 41.8 |
| Alternating day and night shifts | 13.9 | 1.5 | 10.0 | 6.4 |
| Alternating morning/afternoon/night shifts | 21.2 | 9.1 | 39.3 | 25.2 |
| Other (spontaneous) | 10.9 | 7.6 | 5.7 | 6.2 |