Netherlands

1.Series

Title:

Registered unemployment.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Centre for Work and Income.

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

in all parts of the country.

Type of services provided/administered by the agency:

  • Assisting job-seekers to find jobs;
  • Assisting employers to find workers;
  • Supplying labour market information.

    Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

    25%.

    3.Information registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex;
  • Social security number (or similar identification number);
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Date of birth;
  • Citizenship;
  • Nationality/ethnic group;
  • Educational/vocational attainment. Links to ISCED have not been established;
  • Current/past activity status;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job;
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought. Links to ISCO-88 have not been established;
  • Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
  • Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/work place, with links to ISIC (class level);
  • 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);
  • Desired duration of hours of work sought (more than 12 hours per week) (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);
  • Failure to contact the agency/service (R) and (S).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Persons without work, seeking work and available for work. The desired duration of work sought must be more than 12 hours per week.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated regularly.

    8.Unemployment rates

    Statistics from the registers are used to obtain unemployment rates. The source of data on employed persons who are part of the denominator of the unemployment rates is the Labour Force Survey.

    Definition of employed persons for this purpose:

    Persons who have worked more than 12 hours during the reference period.

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Reference period:

    Month.

    Frequency of production:

    Monthly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Industry;
  • Geographic characteristics;
  • Previous work experience;
  • Citizenship;
  • Duration of unemployment.

    Form of publication:

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

    Agency responsible for publication:

    Centre for Work and Income.

    Title of the publication:

    Arbeids-Markt Journaal (Labour Market Journal).

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

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

    11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

    Comparisons have been made with unemployment statistics from the Social Security.

    Frequency of the comparisons:

    Regularly, when the statistics are published.

    Methodology/results of the methodology published:

    These have not been published.

    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.