Morocco

1.Series

Title:

Number of registered job-seekers (internal statistics only, calculated for the last three years only).

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Agence nationale de Promotion de l’Emploi et des Compétences - ANAPEC (National Agency for Promoting Employment and Skills).

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Name of the national authority:

Ministry of Employment, Vocational Training, Social Development and Solidarity.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

22 local agencies in 19 cities of the Kingdom.

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;

Other: advice to enterprises concerning the management of jobs and skills; making available to clients information on the labour market; and development of the national index of occupations.

Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

20% of skilled job-seekers.

3.The following information is registered about a person:

Name;

Sex;

Social security number (or similar identification number also used by other agencies);

Address of usual residence;

Date of birth;

Educational/vocational attainment;

Current/past activity status, with three categories distinguished;

Type of work (occupation) of past or present job with 466 categories distinguished; Links to ISCO-88 have not been established;

Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with 466 categories distinguished;

Previous registrations with the agency/service;

Other: mobility; languages spoken; driving licence; telephone number; e-mail address; family status; length of work experience.

4.Criteria used for inclusion of a person in the registers (R):

To have a professional diploma or a specialization acquired in a course of adult training (R);

To have a diploma of general education (minimum secondary school examination level) (R);

To have a work experience of at least three years in a qualified job, testified by work certificates (R).

5.Criteria used for exclusion of a person from the registers (R):

Death (R);

Taking up residency abroad (R);

Commencement of a (new) job: the registration is cancelled when the job-seeker declares that he/she is no longer looking for a job, or when he/she is placed by the ANAPEC in a qualified job (R);

Studying or undergoing training (R);

Failure to contact the agency/service: not updating registration during the six months following the last registration (R);

Refusal of suitable job offers (R).

6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

Unemployment statistics are established by the Statistics Department, which is under the authority of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Forecasting. Statistics established by the ANAPEC are based on the index of registered job-seekers and are only used internally.

7.Updating of the registers

The registers are updated on a continuous basis.

8.Unemployment rates

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

9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

Reference period:

Day.

Frequency of production:

Daily.

Descriptive variables used:

Sex;

Age;

Educational level.

Form of publication:

For internal use only.

10.Methodological information about the statistics

Form of release:

Not released, available for internal use only.

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.