All these changes in employment rights legislation have also influenced employment trends and the numbers in employment. According to Central Statistics Office figures for the last quarter of 2002, the number of persons in employment has risen from 1.22 million in 1994 to 1.77 million in 2002, an increase of 45%. This number includes 294,000 part-time workers. This number represents 17% of the workforce with the majority of these being women. In addition to atypical workers such as part-time workers, there is also the category of fixed-term contract workers. While the CSO does not at present have figures for these workers, it is estimated that there are some 70,000 fixed-term contract workers, or just 4% of the workforce. The CSO has been requested as part of its review of the quarterly national household survey for 2003-2006 to include in its questionnaires a series of questions to ascertain the numbers and trends in relation to fixed-term workers.