Regional Employment / Unemployment michal.mlady@cec.eu.int

Structure of my talk Change from second-quarter LFS results to LFS annual averages More detailed LFS tables and new LFS tables in New Cronos Limits (thresholds) for absolute LFS estimates

Change from second-quarter LFS results to LFS annual averages Major reform of regional labour market statistics in 2003 Labour Force Survey − LFS LFS data now available for all quarters and almost all EU and AC countries

How were the LFS annual averages calculated? Down to NUTS level 2 NUTS level 3 unemployed economically active population unemployment rate Annual averages calculated from 1999 onwards

More detailed LFS tables and new LFS tables http://europa.eu.int/newcronos/ theme1 General Statistics regio Regional statistics

regio Regional statistics lfs-r Community labour force survey – annual average, from 1999 unemp Unemployment – annual average, from 1999 lfs-r-q2 Community labour force survey – second quarter, up to 2001 unemp-q2 Unemployment – second quarter, up to 2001

LFS tables with more detailed breakdowns (data series from 1999 onwards) Economically active population by age and sex  annual average Economic activity rates by age and sex  annual average Employed persons by age and sex  annual average Population by age and sex (15 years and over)  annual average

age AGE AND AGE CLASSES total Total y15_24 Between 15 and 24 years y25_max 25 years and over y25_34 Between 25 and 34 years y35_44 Between 35 and 44 years y45_54 Between 45 and 54 years y15_64 Between 15 and 64 years y25_64 Between 25 and 64 years y55_64 Between 55 and 64 years y65_max 65 years and over

LFS tables with more detailed breakdowns (data series from 1999 onwards) Employment rates by age and sex  annual average

age AGE AND AGE CLASSES total Total y15_24 Between 15 and 24 years y25_max 25 years and over y25_34 Between 25 and 34 years y35_44 Between 35 and 44 years y45_54 Between 45 and 54 years y15_64 Between 15 and 64 years y25_64 Between 25 and 64 years y55_64 Between 55 and 64 years y65_max 65 years and over

Full-time and part-time employment  annual average LFS tables with more detailed breakdowns (data series from 1999 onwards) Full-time and part-time employment  annual average ft_pt WORKING TIME (full/part-time) total Total pt Part-time nresp No response

New LFS tables (data series from 1999 onwards) Economically active population by level of education, age and sex  annual average Employed persons by level of education, age and sex  annual average Population by level of education, age and sex  annual average

sex SEX t Total m Males f Females age AGE AND AGE CLASSES total Total y25_64 Between 25 and 64 years

isced97 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD CLASSIFICATION OF EDUCATION - 1997 (ISCED) total Total (ISCED 1997) isced0_2 Pre-primary, primary and lower secondary education - levels 0-2 (ISCED 1997) isced3_4 Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education - levels 3-4 (ISCED 1997) isced5_6 Tertiary education - levels 5-6 (ISCED 1997) nresp No answer

New LFS tables (data series from 1999 onwards) Employment by professional status  annual average wstatus EMPLOYMENT status emp Employment sal Employees

New LFS tables (data series from 1999 onwards) Commuting in NUTS2 regions  annual average wrkplace WORKPLACE same_reg Working in the same region oth_reg Working in another region nresp No answer

New LFS tables (data series from 1999 onwards) Average number of usual weekly hours of work in main job (full time)  annual average

New LFS tables (data series from 1999 onwards) Life-long learning  Adult participation in education and training (25-64 years)  annual average lll LIFE-LONG LEARNING Participation in life-long learning no_lll No participation in life-long learning nresp No answer total Total

LFS limits (thresholds) for absolute estimates National level Limit (threshold) A - from 500 (Cyprus, Slovenia) to 8 000 (Germany) Limit (threshold) B - from 1 500 (Luxembourg, Cyprus) to 15 000 (Poland)

LFS limits (thresholds) for absolute estimates Regional level Limit (threshold) A Harmonisation of limits limits with the same relative standard errors from all countries by the end of 2004

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