Burkina Faso

1.Series

Title:

Annual Activity Reports.

Starting year:

1980.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Office national de la Promotion de l’Emploi
  • ONPE (National Office for Employment Promotion).

    Type of agency:

    Public service under a national authority.

    Name of the national authority:

    Ministry of Employment, Labour and Social Security.

    Location of the local offices making the registrations:

    Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso, Banfora, Koudougou and Fada N’Gourma.

    Type of services provided/administered by the agency:

  • Assisting job-seekers to find jobs;
  • Assisting job-seekers to establish their own business;
  • Assisting employers to find workers;
  • Vocational guidance;
  • Job-related training;
  • Other: assisting job-seekers to obtain professional experience or training.

    3.The following information is registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex;
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Date of birth;
  • Nationality/ethnic group;
  • Educational/vocational attainment, with 10 categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have not been established;
  • Current/past activity status, with two categories distinguished;
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with six categories distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established (major groups level);
  • Previous registrations with the agency/service.

    4.Criteria used for inclusion of a person in the registers (R) and/or the statistics of unemployed persons (S):

  • Being without work (R) and (S);
  • Seeking work (R) and (S);
  • Availability for work (R) and (S);
  • Age (lower limit: 18 years; upper limit: 55 years) (R) and (S);
  • Being resident in the country (R) and (S);
  • Previously employed (R) and (S).

    5.Criteria used for exclusion of a person from the registers (R) and/or the statistics of unemployed persons (S):

  • Death (R) and (S);
  • Taking up residency abroad (R) and (S);
  • Commencement of a (new) job; The job-seeker is required to inform ONPE within 10 days following the change in his situation (R) and (S);
  • Receipt of a pension (R) and (S).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Economically active persons of working age who are without work, having previously worked or not.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated quarterly.

    8.Unemployment rates

    Statistics from the registers are not used to obtain unemployment rates.

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Reference period:

    Quarter.

    Frequency of production:

    Quarterly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Previous work experience.

    Form of publication:

    On paper, for general audience.

    Agency responsible for publication:

    ONPE.

    Title and periodicity of the publication(s):

    Rapport d’activité trimestriel (Quarterly Activity Report), Rapport d’activité semestriel (Half-yearly Activity Report) and Rapport d’activité annuel (Annual Activity Report).

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

    On paper, for general audience.

    Agency responsible for the release:

    ONPE.

    11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

    Comparisons have not been made with unemployment statistics from other sources.

    12.Major changes since the start of the statistics

    There have been no major changes in legislation, capacity of the agency and/or administrative procedures which had a significant influence on the statistics.