1. Labour Market Statistics
Eurostat

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

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

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

5. 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

6. 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+)

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

8. 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

9. 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
Economically active population
Belgium: EAP data for
Italy: data for 2005
UK: the data for Northern Ireland for
Germany: economically active population:
- breakdown by age (15-24, 25+) and sex for 2001
France: breakdown by age (15-24, 25+) and sex for

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

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

12. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

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

18. 3-year average unemployment rates
Chapter 3
3-year average unemployment rates

19. 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 [%]

20. 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

21. 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

22. Dispersion of regional employment rates
Chapter 4
Dispersion of regional employment rates

23. 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 age group
employed persons aged as a percentage of population of the same age group

24. Dispersion of regional employment rates
Dispersion of regional (NUTS-2) employment rates of the 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

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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. Thank you and your colleagues
very much for your cooperation.
Any comments, please?