Moldova, Rep. of

1.Series

Title:

Registered unemployment.

Starting year:

1992.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Employment offices, at the regional level.

Type of agency:

Public service under national and regional authorities.

Name of the national authority:

Labour Force Utilization Department under the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

There are 12 employment offices (one in each county) and 33 employment sections in towns throughout the country that are under the direction of the county employment offices. The employment offices are under the Labour Force Utilization Department.

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;

Other: organization and development of Labour Exhibitions, "Labour Club" training and training for remunerated public works.

Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

50%.

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, with five categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have not been established;

Type of work (occupation) of past or present job. Links to ISCO-88 have been established;

Type of work (occupation) of job sought. Links to ISCO-88 have been established;

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

Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace, with 11 groups distinguished;

Other: family status; labour card number; details of last job (dates of service, reason for leaving, average salary of the last three months, etc.); category of social protection; category of unemployment benefits; military status; knowledge of foreign languages; special training.

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: 16 years; upper limit: pension age) (R) and (S);

Being resident in the country (R) and (S);

Previously employed (including remunerated public works and temporary work) (R) and (S);

Previous payment of unemployed insurance contributions (R) and (S).

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

Death (R) and (S);

Taking up residency abroad (R) and (S);

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

Commencement of military service (R) and (S);

Participation in an employment promotion scheme, public works programme, etc. (R) and (S);

Studying or undergoing training (R) and (S);

Failure to contact the agency/service for over 2 months (R) and (S);

Refusal of 2 suitable job offers (R) and (S);

Receipt of a pension (R) and (S);

Inability to work (R) and (S).

6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

The Labour Force Utilization State Service follows the definition of the Law on Labour Force Utilization, which reads:

"Are considered unemployed the citizens available for work who do not have a suitable job or a legal revenue and who are registered at the employment office of their area of residence as a job-seeker".

7.Updating of the registers

The registers are updated daily.

8.Unemployment rates

Statistics from the registers are used to obtain the "official" unemployment rate for the Republic of Moldova (the "real" unemployment rate is obtained through the Labour Force Survey).

The sources of data on employed persons who are part of the denominator of the unemployment rates are the Labour Force Survey and the Population Census.

Definition of employed persons for this purpose:

Persons of 15 years old and over who have had an economic or social activity, producing goods or providing a service during at least one hour in the given period (a week) for profit, salary or other benefits.

9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

Series 1:

Reference period:

Month.

Frequency of production:

Monthly

Descriptive variables used:

Sex.

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Labour Force Utilization Department.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Monthly Statistical Report.

Series 2:

Reference period:

Quarter.

Frequency of production:

Quarterly.

Descriptive variables used:

Sex;

Age;

Educational level;

Occupation;

Industry;

Geographic characteristics;

Duration of unemployment.

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Labour Force Utilization Department.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Quarterly Statistical Report.

Series 3:

Reference period:

Quarter.

Frequency of production:

Quarterly.

Descriptive variables used:

Sex;

Age;

Educational level;

Occupation;

Industry.

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Department of Statistics and Sociology.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Quarterly Statistical Bulletin.

Series 4:

Reference period:

Year.

Frequency of production:

Yearly.

Descriptive variables used:

Sex;

Age;

Educational level;

Occupation;

Industry;

Geographic characteristics;

Citizenship (nationals/non nationals);

Duration of unemployment.

Form of publication:

On paper, for general audience.

Agency responsible for publication:

Department of Statistics and Sociology.

Title and periodicity of the publication:

Statistical Yearbook.

10.Methodological information about the statistics

Form of release:

On paper, for general audience.

Agencies responsible for the release:

Labour Force Utilization Department; Department of Statistics and Sociology.

11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

Comparisons are made with unemployment statistics from various other sources; the "official" statistics are compared with the "real" statistics produced by the Department of Statistics and Sociology.

Frequency of the comparisons:

Regularly when the statistics are published.

Publication of the methodology/results of the comparisons:

These are published in the Quarterly Statistical Bulletin, Statistical Yearbook and other documents.

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.