Czech Republic
1.Series
Title:
Registered job-seekers and vacancies.
Starting year:
1991.
2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons
Name of the agency:
Urad prace (Labour Office).
Type of agency:
Public service under a national authority.
Name of the national authority:
Ministerstvo prace a socialnich veci (Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs).
Location of the local offices making the registrations:
In 77 districts of the country.
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: "Monitoring" of employers; supervisory activities in the area of labour law.
Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:
95%.
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 13 categories distinguished. Links to ISCED-97 have been established;
Current/past activity status, with 25 categories distinguished;
Type of work (occupation) of past or present job [optional], with 10 categories distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established;
Type of work (occupation) of job sought [optional], with 10 categories distinguished]. Links to ISCO-88 have been established;
Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace [optional], with 17 categories distinguished. Links to ISIC, rev.3 or NACE, rev.1 have been established (class level);
Previous registrations with the agency/service;
Other: unemployment duration; repeated unemployment; health status; family status; disadvantaged group (e.g. adolescents, school-leavers and university graduates without experience, pregnant women, persons looking after child under 15 years; job seekers over the age of 50, job-seekers registered more than six months, persons needing special assistance or who are not socially assimilated).
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: 15 years; no upper limit) (R) and (S);
Being resident in the country (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 (R) and (S);
Participation in an employment promotion scheme, public works programme, etc. (R) and (S);
Studying or undergoing training (R) and (S);
Failure to contact the agency/service (R) and (S);
Refusal of suitable job offers (R) and (S);
Other: at own request (R) and (S).
6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics
A citizen who is not in employment or similar relationship, and who does not engage in independent gainful activity, or who is not involved in systematic preparation (studies, training) for a profession or occupation (vocational training) and who personally applies in writing to the Labour Office for assistance in finding suitable employment, shall be registered as a job-seeker [Section 7(1) of the Employment Act].
7.Updating of the registers
The registers are updated on a continuous basis.
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 Labour Force Survey.
Definition of employed persons for this purpose:
The number of employed persons is changed quarterly and calculated as an arithmetical average from the results of the last four Labour Force Surveys (definitions used in the LFS are in full harmony with the definitions of ILO indicators and recommendations).
9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced
Series 1:
Registered job-seekers and vacancies.
Reference period:
Day.
Frequency of production:
Monthly.
Descriptive variables used:
Sex;
Other: receiving unemployment benefit; undergoing training.
Form of publication:
On paper, for limited audience;
Machine-readable form, on request;
On a website (www.mpsv.cz: Sluzby zamestnanosti (Employment Service)).
Agency responsible for publication:
Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
Title and periodicity of the publication(s):
Statistical Report, monthly.
Series 2:
Structure of job-seekers and vacancies
Reference period:
Day.
Frequency of production:
Quarterly.
Descriptive variables used:
Sex;
Age group;
Educational level;
Occupation;
Duration of unemployment;
Other: receiving unemployment benefit.
Form of publication:
Machine-readable form, on request;
On a website (http://ssz.mpsv.cz/Statistiky/).
Agency responsible for publication:
Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
10.Methodological information about the statistics
Form of release:
On paper, for limited audience.
Agency responsible for the release:
Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources
Comparisons as such have not been made with unemployment statistics from other sources. However, unemployment statistics from the Labour Force Survey are used by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs as an additional source of information for labour market analysis.
12.Major changes since the start of the statistics
Major changes to legislation, capacity of the agency and/or administrative procedures resulting in an increase or decrease in the total number of persons registered as unemployed took place in the following years: 1991: -2%; 1992: -5%; 1994: +5%; and 1996: +10%.