Labour Market Statistics Pedro Ferreira Eurostat

Outline of my talk Main efforts of this year NUTS revision for Bulgaria and Romania NUTS level 3 estimates

Main efforts Special attention was taken at: Collecting and completing register unemployment, employment and active population figures at NUTS level 3 Estimating employment and unemployment rates at NUTS level 3 Revising NUTS codes for Bulgaria and Romania

NUTS revision The NUTS codes for Bulgaria and Romania changed this year, so the data had to be revised No problem for Romania: NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 regions stayed “physically” the same and only the codes have changed For Bulgaria, there wasn’t a direct way of solving the problem, so the data had to be resent by the MS

Our Unit asks directly MS for NUTS level 3 figures: Registered unemployment Registered employment Active population Registered unemployment collection went well this year, with two exceptions

Problems United Kingdom: Belgium: the most recent figures for Northern Ireland region are for 2003 Belgium: There is no unified method to estimate wage-earners, self-employed and unemployed

NUTS level 3 figures With NUTS level 3 figures it was possible to estimate unemployment rates at this level, mainly to compute disparities measures The data request for registered employment will be done in November

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