Greenland

1.Series

Title:

Registered unemployment statistics.

Starting year:

1988.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Registrations are made by local authorities (Kommuner) and collected by Statistics Greenland.

Type of agency:

Public service under local authorities.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

In all parts of the country (in the regional capitals).

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.

    3.The following information is registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex (indirectly through Social security number);
  • Social security number;
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Date of birth;
  • Citizenship.
  • Educational/vocational attainment. Links to ISCED have been established;
  • 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);
  • Availability for work (R);
  • Age (lower limit: 16 years; upper limit: 61 years) (S);
  • Citizenship (R) and (S);
  • Being resident in the country (R) and (S).

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

  • Failure to contact the agency/service.

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Persons who register as unemployed with the local authorities. To be registered as unemployed persons must be between 15 and 62 years and not included in other social categories, such as retirees, must be willing to accept job offers and must not be employed at the time of registration.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated monthly.

    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 Population Census.

    Definition of employed persons for this purpose:

    All persons between 15 and 62 years, i.e. the potential labour force (at present there is no exact registration of the actual labour force).

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Series 1:

    Reference period:

    Quarter.

    Frequency of production:

    Quarterly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex (indirectly through Social security number);
  • Age (indirectly through Social security number);
  • Educational level;
  • Geographic characteristics.

    Form of publication:

  • On paper, for general audience;
  • On a website (www.statgreen.gl).

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Statistics Greenland.

    Title and periodicity of the publication:

    Ledigheden [Period], quarterly.

    Series 2:

    Reference period:

    Half-year.

    Frequency of production:

    Half-yearly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex (indirectly through Social security number);
  • Age (indirectly through Social security number);
  • Educational level;
  • Geographic characteristics.

    Form of publication:

  • On paper, for general audience;
  • On a website (www.statgreen.gl).

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Statistics Greenland.

    Title and periodicity of the publication:

    Ledigheden [Period], quarterly.

    Series 3:

    Reference period:

    Year.

    Frequency of production:

    Yearly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex (indirectly through Social security number);
  • Age (indirectly through Social security number);
  • Educational level;
  • Geographic characteristics.

    Form of publication:

  • On paper, for general audience;
  • On a website (www.statgreen.gl).

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Statistics Greenland

    Title and periodicity of the publication(s):

    Ledigheden [Period], quarterly.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

    On paper, for general audience.

    Agency responsible for the release:

    Statistics Greenland.

    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 2000, resulting in a decrease of 0.5 percent in the number of persons registered as unemployed.