Georgia

1. Starting year:

1991

2. Agency

2.1. English name of agency making initial registration

State United Fund, Employment of Georgia

2.2. Service

This is a public service under local authorities

2.3. Offices

78 local offices are making the registrations

2.4. Location

Offices are located in all parts of the country, to cover all labour markets and localities

3. The agency

3.1. Assists job seekers to find jobs

3.2. Assists employers to find workers

3.3. Provides vocational guidance

3.4. Provides job related training

3.5. Pays unemployment compensation

3.6. Provides other employment related services, such as organization of public works and promotion of self-employment

4. The following is registered about a person:

4.1. Name

4.2. Sex

4.4. Address of usual residence

4.5. Locality of usual residence

4.6. Year of birth

4.9. Educational attainment/training, with 3 distinguished categories

4.10. Current and past work situation, with 5 distinguished situations

4.11. Occupation, for up to three jobs, with unspecified number of distinguished categories. Links have not been established to ISCO-88 groups

4.12. Name and address of present/previous employer/work place

5. Criteria used for registration and inclusion in the statistics:

5.1. Criteria used to determine whether a person should be included in the register

1. Age:
Lower age limit: 16 years. Upper age limit: 60 years (females) and 65 years (males)
6. Ownership of one hectar of land as private property

5.2. Criteria used to determine whether a person should be removed from the register

1. Report about death and/or migration

2. Report about entering new job and/or military service

5.3. Criteria used to exclude a registered person from the statistics

1. That the person is employed

6. Information about individuals is stored:

6.1. In the local register

7. Type of statistics produced at least once every year:

A. The number of persons registered as unemployed on a particular day, is produced monthly

B. The number of persons added to the register during the period, is produced monthly

C. The number of persons removed from the register during the period, is produced monthly

D. The number of registered persons who were given a job during the period, is produced monthly

8. The following descriptive variables are used with the different statistics:

8.1. Sex

A, B, C, D

8.2. Age

A, B

8.3. Educational attainment

A, B

8.4. Occupation

A, B

8.5. Industry

not registered

8.6. Duration of unemployment spell

A

9. Publication practices

9.1. Statistics

3. On paper,
for general audience: A, B, C, D

4. In machine readable form,
on request: A, B, C, D

9.2. Methodological information

Methodological information is published on paper, for general audience

10. Comparisons

Comparisons are made regularly with statistics from Labour Force Surveys, but differences are not analysed for reason.

11. Major changes

Major changes in legislation or administrative capacity and/or procedures took place in 1992 and 1997, resulting in increases of 65 and 144 percent respectively of the statistics.