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1.Series

Title:

Labour Market Statistical Yearbook.

Starting year:

1995.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

1. Agence nationale pour l’Emploi - ANPE (National Employment Agency).

2. Bureaux privés de placement - BPP (Private Employment offices).

Type of agency:

1. Public service under a national authority;

2. Profit-making private service.

Name of the national authority:

Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

All over the country.

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: information about the labour market.

    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;
  • Nationality;
  • Educational/vocational attainment, with eight categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have not been established;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job with eight categories distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established;
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with eight categories distinguished;
  • Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
  • Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace, with nine categories distinguished. Links to ISIC 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);
  • Seeking work (R) and (S);
  • Availability for work (R) and (S);
  • Age (lower limit: 15 years; no upper limit) (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);
  • Studying or undergoing training: only for training of long duration (six months and more) (R) and (S);
  • Failure to contact the agency/service: after three months without contact (R) and (S);
  • Inability to work (R) and (S).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Any person of legal working age (15 years and over) who, during the reference period (usually one month), was without work, available for work and looking actively for a job.

    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

    Reference period:

    Month.

    Frequency of production:

    Yearly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Industry;
  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Previous work experience;
  • Citizenship (nationals/non nationals);
  • Duration of unemployment.

    Form of publication:

  • On paper, for general audience;
  • Machine-readable form, on request.

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Observatoire de l’Emploi et de la Formation (OEF) (Observatory of Employment and Training).

    Title and periodicity of the publication:

    Annuaire statistique du marché de l’emploi (Statistical Yearbook of Labour Market), yearly.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

  • On paper, for general audience;
  • In machine-readable form, on request.

    Agency responsible for the release:

    OEF.

    11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

    Comparisons have been made with unemployment statistics from the labour force survey, other household surveys and from the population census.

    Frequency of the comparisons:

    Occasionally.

    Publication of the methodology/results of the comparisons:

    These have not been published.

    12.Major changes since the start of the statistics

    Major changes in legislation and administrative procedures took place in 2000, date of the creation of the ANPE, which replaced the National Office of Manpower and Employment. The resulting changes in the statistics have not been estimated.