Peru

1.Series

Title:

Registered job-seekers.

Starting year:

Around 1975.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Red de Centros de Colocación e Información Laboral, Red CIL-PROEMPLEO (Placement and Occupational Information Centres Network, Network CIL-PROEMPLO).

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority (There are also private centres integrated in the CIL-PROEMPLEO network, but they are non-profit making).

Name of the national authority:

Dirección Nacional de Promoción del Empleo y Formación Profesional (National Employment Promotion and Vocational Training Department).

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

40 offices, in all the main cities of the country.

Type of services provided/administered by the agency:

  • Assisting job-seekers to find jobs;
  • Assisting employers to find workers;
  • Vocational guidance;
  • Job-related training;
  • Other: guidance for employment search; guidance for own-account workers and SMEs.

    Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

    17.5%.

    3.The following information is registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex;
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Age;
  • Citizenship;
  • Educational/vocational attainment, with five categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have been established;
  • Current/past activity status, with five categories distinguished;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job with10 categories distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established (major groups level);
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with 10 categories distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established (major groups level);
  • Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
  • Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace, with 12 categories distinguished. Links to ISIC, rev.3 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);
  • Age (lower limit: 18 years; upper limit: 65 years) (R) and (S);
  • Previously employed (S);
  • Desired duration of employment and/or number of hours of work sought (S).

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

  • Commencement of a (new) job (R) and (S);
  • Participation in an employment promotion scheme, public works programme, etc (R);
  • Failure to contact the agency/service (R) and (S);
  • Refusal of suitable job offers (R);
  • Inability to work (R) and (S);
  • Other: abandon more than once jobs proposed by the service (R).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Not specified.

    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:

    Quarter.

    Frequency of production:

    Quarterly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Industry;
  • Previous work experience;
  • Duration of unemployment;
  • Other: training and skills acquisition courses.

    Form of publication:

    On paper, for limited audience.

    Agency responsible for publication:

    National Employment Promotion and Vocational Training Department.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

    On paper, for limited audience.

    Agency responsible for the release:

    National Employment Promotion and Vocational Training Department.

    11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

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

    Frequency of the comparisons:

    From time to time (latest year: 2000).

    Publication of the methodology/results of the comparisons:

    They have been published in Informe Estadístico Mensual (Monthly Statistical Report).

    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.