French Polynesia

1.Series

Title:

Job-seekers.

Starting year:

1990.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Service de l’Emploi, de la Formation et de l’Insertion professionnelle (Employment, Training and Professional Integration Service).

Type of agency:

Public service under a local authority: Territorial Public Service, under the authority of the Government of French Polynesia.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

Papeete, chief town, as well as a local office in Uturoa-Raiatea, chief town of the archipelago.

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: establishing contacts between job requests and job offers, inciting employers to hire; proposing training and integration possibilities to job seekers.

    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;
  • Current/past activity status;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job. Links to ISCO have not been established;
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought;
  • 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: 16 years; no upper age limit) (R) and (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);
  • Studying or undergoing training (R) and (S);
  • Failure to contact the agency/service: date of validity passed (R) and (S).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Statistics based on the registers are not statistics of the number of unemployed, but statistics on the number of registered job-seekers.

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are updated regularly on a continuous basis.

    8.Unemployment rates

    Statistics from the registers are not used to obtain unemployment rates.

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Information not available.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Information not available.

    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

    There have been no major changes in legislation, capacity of the agency and/or administrative procedures which had a significant influence on the statistics.