Spain

1.Series

Title:

Registered unemployment.

Starting year:

Not specified.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Instituto Nacional de Empleo y Servicios Públicos de Empleo (National Institute of Employment and Public Employment Services).

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Name of the national authority:

Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales (Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs).

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

All over the country, located by geographical areas.

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: experimental employment and vocational training programmes.

    Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

    Not specified.

    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;
  • Educational/vocational attainment. Links to ISCED have not been established;
  • Current/past activity status, with 40 categories distinguished;
  • 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, with 3,537 categories distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established (unit groups level);
  • Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
  • Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace, with 63 categories distinguished;
  • 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 (S);
  • Seeking work (R) and (S);
  • Availability for work (S);
  • Age (lower limit: 16 years; upper limit: 65 years) (S);
  • Citizenship (R) and (S);
  • Being resident in the country (R) and (S);
  • Desired duration of employment and/or number of work sought (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 (persons who have found a job for more than three months are excluded) (R) and (S);
  • Participation in an employment promotion scheme, public works programme, etc (R) and (S);
  • Studying or undergoing training (persons under 25 years or who have never worked are excluded from the statistics) (S);
  • Refusal of a suitable job offer (R) and (S);
  • Refusal of a suitable training offer (R) and (S);
  • Inability to work (R) and (S).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Persons registered as job-seekers who do not belong to the following categories: are employed; participating in a work programme of social interest; receiving a full invalidity pension; are retired; are employed for a period of more than three months; are working less than 80 hours per month; are studying; are undergoing vocational training; are absent for medical reasons; are receiving an agricultural allowance; are aged over 65 years.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated daily.

    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 household labour force survey.

    Definition of employed persons for this purpose:

    Survey on the economically active population.

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Reference period:

    Month.

    Frequency of production:

    Monthly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Industry;
  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Duration of unemployment;
  • Other: reasons for exclusion from registered unemployment.

    Form of publication:

  • On paper, for limited audience;
  • Machine-readable form, on request;
  • On a website: www.inem.es.

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Instituto Nacional de Empleo (National Institute of Employment).

    Title and periodicity of the publication:

    Estadística de Empleo (Employment statistics), monthly.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

  • On paper, for general audience;
  • In machine-readable form, on request;
  • On a website: www.inem.es.

    Agency responsible for the release:

    National Institute of Employment.

    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

    Major changes in legislation, capacity of the agency and/or administrative procedures took place in 1985, but the resulting changes in the statistics have not been estimated.