1. LAMAS Working Group 20-21 January 2016
Agenda Item 4.1 Job Vacancy Statistics State of Play

2. Overview Data transmissions in 2015 Preparation for the 2016 exercise
Quarterly data
Quality reports
Annual Data
Preparation for the 2016 exercise
Release calendar
SDMX transmissions
Extension of the coverage
Methodological issues
Job vacancies within the public sector

3. Data transmissions in 2015 Quarterly data
Timeliness of JVS transmissions in 2015 was generally satisfactory
EL transmitted data with some slight delays
The coverage of the economy is not complete for DK, FR, IT and MT
IE allowed publishing absolute figures
FR and IT continue to refuse the publication of absolute figures
All the countries are asked to transmit full time series by each quarterly transmission
and not only the last quarter(s)

4. Quality reports
All Member States except Greece, as well as Norway and Switzerland delivered their quality reports
Eurostat transmitted to each country a comparison of the number of employees in the LFS and the number of occupied posts in the JVS

7. Annual data collection for reference year 2014
A voluntary data collection
Data transmitted by 17 Member States: BE, BG, CZ, DK, DE, ES, FR (2013 data), HR, LV, LT, HU, MT, PL, PT, RO, SK, FI, as well as CH and MK
Eurostat calculated figures based on the quarterly data for the countries which have not transmitted the annual data

8. Annual data collection
The countries provide the annual data broken down not only by NACE but also by ISCO and NUTS
The overall data coverage is not satisfactory
What are the existing difficulties in producing annual data broken down by NUTS and ISCO?
Member States are encouraged to transmit annual data in SDMX
Eurostat will prepare a document on the future strategy for annual job vacancy statistics

9. Preparation for the 2016 exercise Release calendar
Quarter
JVS flash
JVS
full
Deadline
(t+45 days)
Publication
(t+70 days)
2015Q4
Sunday
14/02/2016*
Thursday
18/02/2016
10/03/2016
Friday
18/03/2016
2016Q1
15/05/2016*
20/05/2016
9/06/2016
Monday
20/06/2016
2016Q2
14/08/2016*
19/08/2016
8/09/2016
16/09/2016
2016Q3
14/11/2016
18/11
/2017
9/12/2016
15/12/2016
2016Q4
Tuesday
14/02/2017 20
/02/2017
Saturday
11/03/2017*
20/03/2017

10. Revision of SDMX standards
One single DSD (called ‘JVS’) as a substitute for the current ones (JVS_02_Q and JVS_02_A for quarterly and annual data, respectively).
Use (where possible) of the global (cross-
domain) code lists instead of JVS-specific ones
New mandatory attributes have been included
to prepare for future transmissions to ECB
=> Doc 11 - Item JVS state of play - Annex - SDMX guidelines.docx

11. Revision of SDMX standards
1. Test transmissions to start in April/May 2015
2. Real transmissions after greenlight from Eurostat

12. Extension of the coverage
The coverage of the economy is not complete for four countries: DK, FR, IT, MT
ESAC's view: improvements could focus on extending the coverage to the whole economy and disseminating job vacancy levels
ECB and the Commission's policy DGs also pointing at the data gaps in JVS

13. Extension of the coverage
FR, IT, MT and DK are invited to use quarterly extrapolations based on annual ‘hard’ data to derive
Quarterly estimates could be derived for
Enterprises below ten employees;
Public entities recruiting through annual procedures due to e.g. budgetary rules

14. Methodological issues Job vacancies within the public sector
Should we record a vacancy which is only open to persons who already work in the public sector?
Eurostat carried out a survey
The countries were asked if they had any concrete cases of vacancies restricted to public sector employees
20 Member States as well as NO and CH replied
No reply from HR, CY, EL, IE and NL
AT, LT, MT and ES declared they had (or could not exclude that they had) concrete cases

15. JV rates for NACE sections O and B-S

16. Job vacancies within the public sector Analysis
According to article 2.1 of regulation 453/2008, a ‘job vacancy’ shall mean a paid post that is newly created, unoccupied, or about to become vacant:
(a) for which the employer is taking active steps and is prepared to take further steps to find a suitable candidate from outside the enterprise concerned; and
(b) which the employer intends to fill either immediately or within a specific period of time (which is "unlimited" according to the implementing regulation).

17. Job vacancies within the public sector Analysis
Restrictions of (some) vacancies to the public sector can be seen as an indication that the statistical unit is the public sector as a whole
The public sector as a whole should be regarded as the reference unit
Vacancies that are restricted to this sector, or part of it, should be considered as a reallocation of staff and not as a vacancy

18. Job vacancies within the public sector Recommendation
It is recommend to record as job vacancies only those that have no restriction as regards the public or private unit from which the candidate originate
This recommendation should be taken into account when Member States re-design their data collection systems

19. LAMAS delegates are invited:
To provide their views/commitments on transmitting annual data in the future
Take note of the changes in SDMX code lists to be tested in April/May 2016
To comment (FR, IT, DK and MT) on the feasibility of transmitting quarterly estimates with full coverage of the economy
To Endorse / comment on the proposal not to record vacancies that have restrictions on the origin of the candidate, for instance vacancies restricted to the public sector (OR confirm that there is no such case in practice).

20. Thank you for your attention!