Belarus

1.Series

Title:

Number of registered unemployed placed by the State Employment Service.

Starting year:

1991.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

State Employment Service.

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Name of the national authority:

Employment Services of the Republic of Belarus.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

In all parts of the country, regional, districts and city centres of employment.

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;
  • Paying unemployment compensation;
  • Other employment-related services;
  • Free information on vacancies;
  • Possibilities to participate in paid public works;
  • Creation of new working places with consequent job placement of unemployed;
  • Assistance in temporary job placement of school and university students.

    Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

    30%.

    3.The following information is registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex;
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Date of birth;
  • Citizenship;
  • Educational/vocational attainment;
  • Current/past activity status, with 30 categories distinguished;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job;
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought;
  • Name and address of present or previous employer or workplace;
  • Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace;
  • 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);
  • Age (lower limit: 16 years; upper limit: 55 years for women and 60 years for men) (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);
  • Commencement of a (new) job (R) and (S);
  • Commencement of military service (R);
  • Participation in an employment promotion scheme, public works programme (R) and (S);
  • Failure to contact the agency/service after a period of 12 months (R) and (S);
  • Receipt of a pension (R) and (S);
  • Inability to work (R).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Information not available.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated quarterly, and monthly for a short list of indicators.

    8.Unemployment rates

    Statistics from the registers are used to obtain unemployment rates. The sources of data on employed persons who are part of the denominator of the unemployment rates are establishment surveys, official estimates and population censuses.

    Definition of employed persons for this purpose:

    Information not available.

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Series 1:

    Reference period:

    Month.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Citizenship (nationals/non nationals);
  • Participation of unemployed in paid public works;
  • Training and retraining of unemployed.

    Form of publication:

  • On paper, for general audience;
  • On a website.

    Series 2:

    Reference period:

    Quarter .

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Previous work experience;
  • Citizenship (nationals/non nationals);
  • Duration of unemployment;
  • Participation of unemployed in paid public works;
  • Training and retraining of unemployed;
  • Creation of new jobs;
  • Assistance in the creation of individual businesses.

    Form of publication:

  • On paper, for general audience;
  • On a website.

    Series 3:

    Reference period:

    Half-year.

    Descriptive variables used:

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

    Form of publication:

  • On paper, for general audience;
  • On a website.

    Agency responsible for publications:

    Employment Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, and the Ministry of Statistics and Analysis.

    Title of the publications:

    Official statistical publications in the newspapers: Labour & Market.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

    On paper, for limited audience.

    Agency responsible for the release:

    Employment Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.

    11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

    Comparisons have been made with unemployment statistics from other types of household surveys and from the population census.

    Frequency of the comparisons:

    Occasionally.

    Publication of the methodology/results of the comparisons:

    These have not been published.

    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.