Labour Market Statistics michal.mlady@ec.europa.eu Eurostat

Outline Completeness of the database (NUTS-3) Revision of the 1999-2004 NUTS-3 data 3-year average unemployment rates Dispersion of regional employment rates

Labour Market Statistics Significant improvement: Completeness of the database Revision of the NUTS-3 data

Completeness of the database (NUTS-3) Chapter 1 Completeness of the database (NUTS-3)

Completeness of the database (NUTS-3) Source of regional labour market data Down to NUTS-2: Labour Force Survey (LFS) NUTS-3: LFS NUTS-2 data apportioned to NUTS-3 according to: NUTS-3 LFS data NUTS-3 register data

Completeness of the database (NUTS-3) NUTS-3 data provided by countries Unemployed persons Economically active population - breakdown: by sex and age (15-24, 25+)

Completeness of the database (NUTS-3) Portugal – first time: 1999-2004 unemployment data in 2005 1999-2005 economically active population data in 2006  Unemployment rate in 2006 Greece – first time: NUTS-3 data first time from Greece: 1999-2004 economically active population data in 2005  Unemployment rate in 2005

Completeness of the database (NUTS-3) Germany - significant improvement – economically active population NUTS-3 data provided by Bundesagentur für Arbeit: - unemployment rates - unemployed persons Unemp. rate = Unemployed / Econ. act. pop. * 100 [%] Econ. act. pop. = Unemployed / Unemp. rate * 100

Completeness of the database (NUTS-3) Missing NUTS-3 data Unemployment Italy: 2005 The UK: the 2004 and 2005 data for Northern Ireland France – breakdown by sex and age (15-24, 25+) for 1999-2005 Economically active population Belgium: EAP data for 2004-2005 Italy: data for 2005 UK: the data for Northern Ireland for 2004-2005 Germany: economically active population: - 1999-2000 - breakdown by age (15-24, 25+) and sex for 2001 France: breakdown by age (15-24, 25+) and sex for 1999-2005

Completeness of the database (NUTS-3) NUTS-3 database in 2006 EU-25: 1999-2005, estimates 1995-1998 (employment and unemployment rates) Bulgaria: 2000-2005 (LFS from 2000 only) Romania: 1999-2005 Norway: 1999-2005

Revision of the 1999-2004 NUTS-3 data Chapter 2 Revision of the 1999-2004 NUTS-3 data

Revision of the 1999-2004 NUTS-3 data Up-dated NUTS-3 figures adjusted data according to last census change in methodology Consistent NUTS-3 figures with LFS NUTS-2 data reference period, age groups and basis of the data

Revision of the 1999-2004 NUTS-3 data Reference period Annual data: from January to December Exception: - from December to November: UK, Ireland

Revision of the 1999-2004 NUTS-3 data Age group Employed persons are those aged 15 years and over Exceptions: - 16 years and over: ES and UK - 15 to 74 years: DK, EE, HU, LV, SE, FI and NO Unemployed persons comprise persons aged 15 to 74 - 16 to 74: ES and UK

Description of the regional (NUTS-3) data sent to Eurostat   Economically active population – NUTS level 3 Year Age categories Data source Reference period Employed persons* Unemployed Data used by Eurostat to apportion LFS NUTS-2 figures to NUTS-3 Residence/working place-based data Residence- based (YES/NO) 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 X

Description of the regional (NUTS-3) data sent to Eurostat   Unemployed persons – NUTS level 3 Year Age categories Data source Reference period Residence-based data (YES/NO) Data used by Eurostat to apportion LFS NUTS-2 figures to NUTS-3 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 X

Revision of the 1999-2004 data Revised data Econ. active population Denmark 1999-2004 Spain 1999-2004 France 1999-2004 Malta 2000-2004 Austria 2004 Portugal 1999-2004 Sweden 1999-2004 Romania 2004 Unemployed persons Denmark 1999-2004 Germany 2003-2004 Spain 1999-2004 France 1999-2004 Malta 2000-2004 Poland 1999-2004 Finland 2000, 2004 Romania 2004

3-year average unemployment rates Chapter 3 3-year average unemployment rates

3-year average unemp. rates Unemployment rate from t to t+2 = (Unemp.t + Unemp.t+1 + Unemp.t+2) / (Ec.ac.pop.t + Ec.act.pop.t+1 + Ec.ac.pop.t+2) * 100 [%]

3-year average unemp. rates Aim: to increase quality of the data Investigation revealed the following problems: outliers breaks in time series unreliable annual figures 3-year average figure would hide them  this figure was replaced by NA

3-year average unemp. rates Each annual figure is in principle used three times: Unemployed in 2002: Un. rate from 2000 to 2002 Un. rate from 2001 to 2003 Un. rate from 2002 to 2004 Number of NA figures would triple problematical annual figures Taking into account not reliable figures: 25 % wholes Eurostat decided not to publish 3-year average unemployment rates

Dispersion of regional employment rates Chapter 4 Dispersion of regional employment rates

Dispersion of regional employment rates One of the key indicators on EU policy called structural indicators Calculated for NUTS-2 level Employment rate of the 15-64 age group employed persons aged 15-64 as a percentage of population of the same age group

Dispersion of regional employment rates Dispersion of regional (NUTS-2) employment rates of the 15-64 age group Shows the regional differences in employment within countries and groups of countries (EU-25, Euro area). Expressed by coefficient of variation of regional employment rates of the age group 15-64

Dispersion of regional employment rates The weighted variance of regional employment rates of the age group 15-64:                                              (*)      

Dispersion of regional employment rates The coefficient of variation of employment rates is the square root of the variance (*) divided by the employment rate at national (European, respectively) level

Dispersion of regional (NUTS-2) employment rates   1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 EU25 13.3 13.4 13.5 12.9 12.2 BELGIQUE-BELGIË 8 7.9 7.7 8.7 CESKA REPUBLIKA 5.6 5.8 5.7 DANMARK - DEUTSCHLAND 5.5 6.1 5.9 6 6.2 EESTI ELLADA 5.2 5.1 4.3 3.8 3.2 4.1 ESPAÑA 10.8 10.7 10 9.3 9 FRANCE 7.1 6.9 8.3 7.2 IRELAND ITALIA 17.4 17.5 17.1 16.7 17 15.6 CYPRUS LATVIJA LIETUVA LUXEMBOURG MAGYARORSZÁG 9.1 8.8 9.4 8.5 MALTA NEDERLAND 2.3 2.2 ÖSTERREICH 2.5 2.6 2.9 3.5 POLSKA 4.8 7.3 6.4 PORTUGAL 3.6 3.9 SLOVENIJA SLOVENSKÁ REP. 8.1 7.6 SUOMI/FINLAND 6.7 6.8 7 SVERIGE 4.5 4.2 4.6 4.4 UNITED KINGDOM 7.5 6.6

Dispersion of regional employment rates Not available for Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Slovenia – only one or two NUTS-2 regions Eurostat will explore possibility of changing the NUTS level for the dispersion from NUTS-2 to NUTS-3

Dispersion of regional employment rates at NUTS 3 level To be calculated from NUTS-3 economically active population and unemployment figures Population data NUTS-3 demographic data Results to be presented in December at the Employment committee indicator group in Brussels

Summary Improvement of NUTS-3 database 3-year average unempl. rates - completeness of the database - revision of the NUTS-3 data 3-year average unempl. rates Dispersion of employment rates: from NUTS-2 to NUTS-3

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