Azerbaijan
1. Starting year:
1991
2. Agency
2.1. English name of agency making initial registration
State Employment Service
2.2. Service
This is a public service under local authorities
2.3. Offices
82 local offices are making the registrations
2.4. Location
Offices are located in all parts of the country, to cover all labour markets and localities
3. The agency
3.1. Assists job seekers to find jobs
3.2. Assists employers to find workers
3.3. Provides vocational guidance
3.5. Pays unemployment compensation
3.6. Provides other employment related services,
but not specified
4. The following is registered about a person:
4.1. Name
4.2. Sex
4.4. Address of usual residence
4.5. Locality of usual residence
4.6. Year of birth
4.7. Citizenship
4.8. Nationality/ethnic group
4.9. Educational attainment/training,
with an unspecified number of distinguished categories
4.10. Current and past work situation,
with an unspecified number of distinguished situations
4.12. Name and address of present/previous employer/work place
4.12.b. Industry of present/previous employer/work place,
with unspecified number of distinguished categories and without
links to ISIC, rev.3 or NACE, rev.1 categories
4.13. Periods of previous registrations
5. Criteria used for registration and inclusion in the statistics:
5.1. Criteria used to determine whether a person should be included in the register
1. Age:
Lower age limit not specified. Upper age limits not specified
3. Length of previous employment,
with number of months unspecified
5. Completed military service
5.2. Criteria used to determine whether a person should be removed from the register
2. Report about entering new job and/or military service
3. After 12 weeks without contact
5. That the person is no longer eligible for unemployment compensation
5.3. Criteria used to exclude a registered person from the statistics
1. That the person is employed
6. Information about individuals is stored:
6.1. In the local register
7. Type of statistics produced at least once every year:
A. The number of persons registered as unemployed
on a particular day, is produced monthly
B. The number of persons added to the register
during the period, is produced monthly
C. The number of persons removed from the register
during the period, is produced monthly
D. The number of registered persons who were given a job
during the period, is produced monthly
E. The number of persons who returned to the register
during the period, is produced monthly
8. The following descriptive variables are used with the different statistics:
8.1. Sex
A, D, E
8.2. Age
A, D, E
8.3. Educational attainment
A, D, E
8.4. Occupation
not registered
8.5. Industry
A, D, E
8.6. Duration of unemployment spell
A, D, E
9. Publication practices
9.1. Statistics
3. On paper,
for limited audience: A, B, C, D, E
9.2. Methodological information
Methodological information is published on paper, for limited
audience
10. Comparisons
Comparisons have been made with statistics from household surveys
and the population census. No references have been given.
11. Major changes
Major changes in legislation or administrative capacity and/or
procedures took place in 1994 and 1999. The size of the
resulting increase in the statistics have not been estimated.