1. Labour Market Statistics
Pedro Ferreira
Eurostat
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2. Structure of my talk Data collection process Missing data
The need for NUTS level 3 data
Quality issues
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3. Thank you! Data collection
NUTS level 2 data: we receive the LFS data from the thematic Unit at Eurostat
NUTS level 3 data: we collect data from Member States
This year there were no particular problems regarding this data collection
Thank you!
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4. Missing data
Data was made available for almost every NUTS level 2 region
Only data from Denmark and Slovenia are not yet available due to the NUTS change
Both countries introduced for the first time NUTS level 2 regions
NUTS level 3 data availability was not so good:
Belgium, Ireland and Poland missing completely
Some regions of France, Italy and United Kingdom missing
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5. The need for NUTS level 3 data
Asymmetries within a NUTS level 2 region are not captured with NUTS level 2 data
The main objective of NUTS level 3 data is to have a more detailed measure of regional disparities in regional labour markets
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7. Quality issues
The Quality Report of the European Union Labour Force Survey – 2006 has a section dedicated to regional data quality
Sixteen countries have provided NUTS level 3 unemployment rate coefficient of variation (CV):
95% of the 433 regions below 20%
81% below 15%.
Empirical exercise: registered data in Germany was used to breakdown NUTS level 1 LFS data into NUTS level 2
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8. Quality issues
Combined sources produced only 0.3 percentage points difference in the dispersion of unemployment rates:
LFS data: 43.5
Combined: 43.2
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9. Thank you for listening
Any questions?
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