1. Labour Market Statistics
Pedro Ferreira
Eurostat

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Thank you for your attention!