Gabon

1.Series

Title:

Activity Report of the National Employment Office.

Starting year:

1994.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Office national de l’Emploi - ONE (National Employment Office).

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Name of the national authority:

Ministry of Labour, Employment and Vocational Training.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

Libreville and Port-Gentil.

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;
  • Job-related training.

    Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

    34%.

    3.The following information is registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex;
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Date of birth;
  • Citizenship;
  • Educational/vocational attainment, with four 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 four categories distinguished. Links to ISCO have not been established;
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with four categories distinguished;
  • Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
  • Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace, with 60 categories distinguished. Links to ISIC have not been established;
  • Type of diplomas obtained, type of training.

    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; upper limit: 65 years) (R).

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

  • Death (R);
  • Taking up residency abroad (R);
  • Commencement of a (new) job (R);
  • Commencement of military service (R);
  • Participation in an employment promotion scheme, public works programme, etc (R);
  • Studying or undergoing training (R);
  • Failure to contact the agency/service (R);
  • Receipt of a pension (retirement, etc) (R);
  • Inability to work (R).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Not applicable.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated daily.

    8.-12.

    Not applicable. The ONE is not in charge of producing unemployment statistics. This is the responsibility of other public administrations.