India

1.Series

Title:

Employment Exchange Statistics.

Starting year:

1947.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

National Employment Service.

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority, working in close collaboration with State and Union territory administrations.

Name of the national authority:

Directorate General of Employment and Training, Ministry of Labour.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

In all parts of the country at district/town level. The network comprises 958 Employment Exchanges.

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.

3.The following information is registered about a person:

Name;

Sex;

Address of usual residence;

Date of birth;

Ethnic group;

Educational/vocational attainment. Links to ISCED have not been established;

Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;

Other: minimum salary; physical fitness and characteristics; language knowledge; willingness to join the armed forces or undergo training; willingness to work elsewhere (geographical limitations).

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);

Age (lower limit: 14 years; no upper limit) (R) and (S);

Citizenship (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):

Commencement of a (new) job (R) and (S);

Failure to renew registration at agency/service (R) and (S).

6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

All candidates registered at Employment Exchanges are treated as job-seekers.

7.Updating of the registers

The registers are updated monthly.

8.Unemployment rates

Statistics from the registers are not used to obtain unemployment rates.

9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

Series 1:

Registrations, placements, submissions made, number on Live Register and vacancies notified.

Reference period:

Month.

Frequency of production:

Monthly.

Descriptive variables used:

Sex;

Geographic characteristics (whether from Rural Areas).

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 2:

Vocational guidance activities by categories of applicants.

Reference period:

Quarter.

Frequency of production:

Quarterly.

Descriptive variables used:

Ethnic/social categories (i.e. "Scheduled Castes" (SC); "Scheduled Tribes" (ST); "Other Backward Classes" (OBC);

Other: physically handicapped (PH);

Sex (women as total only).

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 3:

Registrations, placements, number on Live Register and submissions made in respect of minority communities.

Reference period:

Half-year.

Frequency of production:

Half-yearly.

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 4:

Registrations, placements, number on Live Register and submissions made in respect of physically handicapped applicants.

Reference period:

Half-year.

Frequency of production:

Half-yearly.

Descriptive variables used:

Type of physical disability;

Sex (women as total only).

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 5:

Number of educated applicants (10th class and above) registered and placed.

Reference period:

Half-year.

Frequency of production:

Half-yearly.

Descriptive variables used:

Educational level (5 levels distinguished; 10 branches distinguished for graduates and post-graduates; 2 branches for diploma holders);

Ethnic/social categories (i.e. "SC", "ST" and "OBC");

Sex (women as total only).

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 6:

Registrations, placements, number on Live Register and submissions made in respect of "SC", "ST" and "OBC" applicants.

Reference period:

Half-year.

Frequency of production:

Half-yearly.

Descriptive variables used:

Ethnic/social categories.

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 7:

Promotion of self-employment.

Reference period:

Half-year.

Frequency of production:

Half-yearly.

Descriptive variables used:

Sex;

Ethnic/social categories ("SC", "ST", "OBC", "PH" and Minority Communities);

Geographic characteristics (rural/urban).

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 8:

Vacancies notified, filled, cancelled and outstanding on Live Register by National Classification of Occupations (NCO) in respect of Women, "SC", "ST", "OBC" and "PH" applicants.

Reference period:

Year.

Frequency of production:

Yearly.

Descriptive variables used:

Occupation;

Ethnic/social categories;

Sex (women as total only);

Other: "PH".

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 9:

Vacancies notified, filled, cancelled and outstanding by sector.

Reference period:

Year.

Frequency of production:

Yearly.

Descriptive variables used:

Sector (Central/State Government, Public/Private Sector, etc.).

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 10:

Number of applicants on Live Register by age group, sex and educational level on 31 December.

Reference period:

Year.

Frequency of production:

Yearly.

Descriptive variables used:

Sex;

Age group;

Educational level (6 levels distinguished).

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 11:

Number of vacancies reported by establishments as unfilled due to shortage of suitable applicants with reasons for not sponsoring.

Reference period:

Year.

Frequency of production:

Yearly.

Descriptive variables used:

Industry (by National Industrial Classification (NIC) code at 3-digit level);

Occupation (by NCO code);

Public/Private sector.

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 12:

Registrations, placements effected and number on Live Register by NCO in respect of Full-term Apprentices and Ex-Industrial Training Institute (ITI) Trainees by trades.

Reference period:

Year.

Frequency of production:

Yearly.

Descriptive variables used:

Occupation;

Trade in which trained.

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

Series 13:

Registrations, placements effected and number on Live Register in respect of Displaced Persons.

Reference period:

Year.

Frequency of production:

Yearly.

Descriptive variables used:

Geographic characteristics (provenance).

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Employment Exchanges Statistics, yearly.

10.Methodological information about the statistics

Form of release:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for the release:

Directorate General of Employment and Training.

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

There have been no major changes in legislation, capacity of the agency and/or administrative procedures which had a significant influence on the statistics.