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How many working days in year 2002?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2002 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 5 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 256 working days in 2002.

Here is the list of these 5 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Tuesday, 1 January, 2002
2. Good Friday : Friday, 29 March, 2002
3. Labour Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 2002
4. National Day : Friday, 9 August, 2002
5. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 2002