Niger
1.Series
Title:
Job-seekers statistics.
Starting year:
1982.
2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons
Name of the agency:
Agence Nationale pour la Promotion de l’Emploi - ANPE (National Agency for Employment Promotion).
Type of agency:
Public service under a national authority.
Location of the local offices making the registrations:
Niamey, Tillabery, Dosso, Tahara, Maradi, Zinder, Diffa, Arlit and Agadez.
Type of services provided/administered by the agency:
Assisting job-seekers to find jobs;
Assisting job-seekers to establish their own business (only in Niamey);
Assisting employers to find workers;
Vocational guidance (only in Niamey);
Job-related training (only in Niamey);
Other: insertion programmes for young graduates; production of statistical information on the evolution of the labour market, programme of insertion in the informal sector.
3.The following information is registered about a person:
Name;
Sex;
Date of birth;
Nationality;
Educational/vocational attainment, with four categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have not been established;
Type of work (occupation) of job sought.
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: 18 years; upper limit: 60 years) (R) and (S);
Citizenship: the registration card is issued to foreigners only if the conditions required by the rules are fulfilled (R);
Being resident in the country (R) and (S);
Previously employed (R) and (S);
Desired duration of employment and/or number of hours of work sought (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);
Studying or undergoing training (R) and (S);
Inability to work (R) and (S).
6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics
Unemployment statistics are based on the register in which job-seekers are recorded. Therefore, any person looking for a job and registered with the ANPE during the reference period is considered as unemployed.
7.Updating of the registers
The registers are not updated regularly.
8.Unemployment rates
Statistics from the registers are not used to obtain unemployment rates.
9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced
Series 1:
Statistics on job-seekers.
Frequency of production:
Monthly.
Descriptive variables used:
Sex;
Age;
Occupation.
Form of publication:
On paper, for limited audience.
Agency responsible for publication:
ANPE.
Title of the publication:
Rapport statistique (Statistical Report).
Series 2:
Statistics on job-seekers and manpower.
Frequency of production:
Yearly.
Descriptive variables used:
Sex;
Age;
Level of education;
Occupation;
Geographical characteristics.
Form of publication:
On paper, for general audience.
Agency responsible for publication:
ANPE.
Title of the publication:
Rapport d’activité (Activity Report).
10.Methodological information about the statistics
Form of release:
On paper, for general audience.
Agency responsible for the release:
ANPE.
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
The National Agency for Employment Promotion was created in 1996. Prior to this, the Manpower Service and the Labour Inspections recorded job-seekers.