Dominican Republic

1.Series

Title:

Registered unemployment.

Starting year:

Not specified.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Dirección General de Empleo (General Administration of Employment).

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Name of the national authority:

Secretaría de Estado de Trabajo (Secretary of State of labour).

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

In five provinces; it is planned to cover 10 others before the end of 2002.

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;
  • Other: surveys on the labour market.

    Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

    10%.

    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;
  • Current/past activity status;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job. Links to ISCO-88 have been established (unit groups level);
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought. Links to ISCO-88 have been established (unit 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);
  • Seeking work (R);
  • Availability for work (R);
  • Age (lower limit: 16 years; no upper age limit) (R);
  • Citizenship (must be Dominican) (R);
  • Being resident in the country (R);
  • Desired duration of employment and/or work sought (R).

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

  • Death (R);
  • Failure to contact the agency/service (R);
  • Other: application no longer valid (validity is one year) (R).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Dominicans aged over 16 years without work, whether they are looking for a job or not.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated yearly.

    8.Unemployment rates

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

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Reference period:

    Year.

    Frequency of production:

    Yearly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Occupation;
  • Industry;
  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Previous work experience.

    Form of publication:

  • On paper, for general audience;
  • Machine-readable form, on request.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

  • On paper, for general audience;
  • In machine-readable form, on request;
  • On a website: www.bancentral.gov.do/publicaciones

    Agency responsible for the release:

    Banco Central de la República Dominicana (Central Bank of the Dominican Republic).

    11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

    Comparisons have been made with unemployment statistics from the labour force survey, other household survey and from the report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC): Informe de la CEPAL "Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe" (ECLAC Report).

    Frequency of the comparisons:

    from time to time.

    Publication of the methodology/results of the comparisons:

    These have not been published.

    12.Major changes since the start of the statistics

    Major changes in legislation, capacity of the agency and/or administrative procedures took place in 2002. The resulting changes in the statistics are being estimated.