Bahrain

1.Series

Title:

Registered unemployment.

Starting year:

1996.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Employment Services Bureau.

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Name of the national authority:

Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

Main building of Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Isa Town.

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.

    3.The following information is registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex;
  • Social security number (or similar identification number also used by other agencies);
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Date of birth;
  • Citizenship;
  • Nationality/ethnic group;
  • Educational/vocational attainment, with 6 categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have been established;
  • Current/past activity status, with 5 categories distinguished;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job, with 3 groups distinguished in the classification used for coding "occupation". Links to ISCO-88 have not been established;
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with 9 groups distinguished in the classification used for coding "occupation". Links to ISCO-88 have not been established;
  • Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
  • Other: languages spoken; training programme(s) undertaken.

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

  • Being without work (R);
  • Seeking work (R);
  • Availability for work (R);
  • Age: lower limit: 17 years; upper limit: 50 years (R);
  • Citizenship: must be Bahraini (R);
  • Being resident in the country (R);
  • Previously employed (R);
  • Desired duration of employment and/or number of hours sought (R);
  • Previous payment of unemployment insurance contributions (R)

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

  • Death (S);
  • Taking up residency abroad (S);
  • Commencement of a (new) job (R);
  • Participation in an employment promotion scheme, public works programme, etc. (S);
  • Studying or undergoing training (R);
  • Failure to contact the agency/service (S);
  • Refusal of suitable job offers (S);
  • Refusal of suitable training offers (S);
  • End of entitlement to receive unemployment compensation (R);
  • Receipt of a pension (S);
  • Inability to work (S).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Unemployed persons are those included in the General Organisation for Social Insurance (GOSI), Official estimates and registered with the Employment Services Bureau of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs as a job seeker or unemployed person.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated both daily and monthly.

    8.Unemployment rates

    Statistics from the registers are used to obtain unemployment rates.

    The source of data on employed persons who are part of the denominator of the unemployment rates is the Social Security register.

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Series 1:

    Daily report of employment conditions.

    Reference period:

    Day.

    Frequency of production:

    Daily, or when needed.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Industry;
  • Geographic characteristics:
  • Previous work experience;
  • Citizenship (nationals/non-nationals);
  • Duration of unemployment.

    Form of publication:

    For internal use only.

    Series 2:

    Abbreviated report for all conditions.

    Reference period:

    Month.

    Frequency of production:

    Monthly, or when needed.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Industry;
  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Previous work experience;
  • Citizenship (nationals/non-nationals);
  • Duration of unemployment.

    Form of publication:

    For internal use only.

    Series 3:

    Reference period:

    Year.

    Frequency of production:

    Yearly, or when needed.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Industry;
  • Geographic characteristics:
  • Previous work experience;
  • Citizenship (nationals/non-nationals);
  • Duration of unemployment.

    Form of publication:

    For internal use only.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

  • In machine-readable form on request;
  • On website www.bah-molsa.com/.

    11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

    Comparisons have been made with unemployment statistics from the Population Census.

    12.Major changes since the start of the statistics

    No major changes to legislation, capacity of the agency and/or administrative procedures which had a significant influence on the statistics have been reported.