Iran, Islamic Rep. of

1.Series

Title:

Administrative Registers of Employment Centres.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

1. Placement Centres (public);

2. Employment Advisory Centres (public);

3. Placement Centres (private) with the authorization of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

Type of agency:

1 and 2: Public service under a local authority;

3: Non-profit making private service.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

All over the country. Most of the local offices are located in urban areas. However, some offices have been opened recently in rural areas of the districts.

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;
  • Paying unemployment compensation;
  • Other employment-related services.

    Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

    20%.

    3.The following information is registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex;
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Date of birth;
  • Educational level;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job;
  • Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace; links to ISIC-rev.3 have not been established;
  • Other: school documents, occupational qualification, job outside the country, starting date of unemployment insurance contributions.

    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: 15 years; no upper age limit) (R) and (S);
  • Citizenship (R) and (S);
  • Being resident in the country (R) and (S);
  • Previously employed (R);
  • Previous payment of unemployed insurance contributions (R).

    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

    Any person aged 15 years and over, able to work, available for work and registered in a placement centre.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are 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;
  • Occupational qualification.

    Form of publication:

    On paper, for general audience.

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Bureau of Statistics.

    Title and periodicity of the publication:

    Aspects of the labour market (yearly).

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

    On paper, for limited audience.

    Agency responsible for the release:

    Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Bureau of Statistics.

    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

    In order to lighten the burden on the public placement centres some placement centres have been privatized with the authorization of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

    In 2002 a programme of reform was introduced with a view to improving the system of labour market information and also to computerizing it.