Serbia and Montenegro

1.Series

Title:

Registered unemployment.

Starting year:

Not specified.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Bureau of Labour of the Republics.

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Name of the national authority:

Ministry for Labour and Employment.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

In all districts throughout Serbia and Montenegro.

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: providing labour market information; taking active policy measures concerning specific categories of unemployed persons (invalids, etc.).

    Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

    29%.

    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;
  • Educational/vocational attainment, with nine categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have not been established;
  • Current/past activity status, with three categories distinguished;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job with 74 groups distinguished (about 3,500 individual professions). Links to ISCO-88 have not been established;
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with 74 groups distinguished (about 3,500 individual professions). Links to ISCO-88 have not been established;
  • Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
  • Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace, with 17 groups distinguished. Links to ISIC, rev.3 or NACE, rev.1 have been established;
  • Previous registrations with the agency/service;
  • Other: professional motivation of unemployed person; special knowledge and skills; rights of unemployed person; dates of mediation.

    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);
  • Age (lower and upper limits not specified) (R) and (S);
  • Citizenship (R);
  • Being resident in the country (R);
  • Previously employed (R) and (S);
  • Desired duration of employment and/or number of hours of work sought (R);
  • Previous payment of unemployed insurance contributions (R).

    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 (R) and (S);
  • Participation in an employment promotion scheme, public works programme, etc. (R) and (S);
  • Failure to contact the agency/service (R);
  • Refusal of 1 suitable job offer per month (R);
  • End of entitlement to receive unemployment compensation (R);
  • Receipt of a pension (R);
  • Inability to work (R);
  • Other: if subject to a legal penalty or corrective measures for a period longer than six months (R).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Persons who are not employed, who are available for work, who are seeking work and who are registered in the regular files of the Bureau for Employment.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated monthly and yearly.

    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 are the Labour Force Survey and the regular Monthly Reports on Employed Persons and Wages.

    Definition of employed persons for this purpose:

    Persons employed in enterprises, organizations or in the private sector.

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Series 1:

    Reference period:

    Month; Year.

    Frequency of production:

    Monthly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Educational level;
  • Industry;
  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Other: reason for cessation of employment; trainees.

    Form of publication:

    On paper, for general audience.

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Federal Bureau for Labour Market and Migrations.

    Title and periodicity of the publication:

    Monthly Statistical Survey - Employment.

    Series 2:

    Reference period:

    Month; Year.

    Frequency of production:

    Monthly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Previous work experience;
  • Citizenship (nationals/non nationals);
  • Duration of unemployment;
  • Other: recipients of unemployment benefits; total cash payments of unemployment benefits made (per month; per year).

    Form of publication:

    On paper, for limited audience.

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Federal Bureau Market and Migrations.

    Title and periodicity of the publication:

    Statistical Yearbook Placement of unemployed persons.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

    On paper, for limited audience.

    Agency responsible for the release:

    Federal Bureau for Labour Market and Migrations.

    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.