Ethiopia

1.Series

Title:

Employment Exchange Statistics.

Starting year:

1961.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Bureau of Labour and Social Affairs.

Type of agency:

Public service under national and regional authorities.

Name of the national authority:

Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

In all public employment offices in different regional states and city administrations.

Type of services provided/administered by the agency:

  • Assisting job-seekers to find jobs;
  • Assisting employers to find workers;
  • Vocational guidance (partial responsibility);
  • Job-related training (partial responsibility).

    3.The following information is registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex;
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Date of birth;
  • Educational/vocational attainment, with an unspecified number of categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have been established;
  • Current/past activity status, with an unspecified number of categories distinguished;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job with 5 groups 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 (R) and (S);
  • Seeking work (R) and (S);
  • Availability for work (R) and (S);
  • Age (lower limit: 18 years; upper limit: 55 years) (R) and (S);
  • Being resident in the country (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):

    Information not available.

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Information not available.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are not updated regularly.

    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;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Duration of unemployment.

    Form of publication:

    On paper, for general audience.

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

    Title of the publications:

    Employment Exchange Information; Labour Statistics Bulletin.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

    On paper, for general audience.

    Agency responsible for the release:

    Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

    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:

    (i) 1975: The resulting changes in the statistics were not estimated; and

    (ii)1993: Resulting in a decrease of 25-30% in the total number of persons registered as unemployed.