Job Applications at End of Month (Demandes d'emploi en fin de mois - DEFM).
Unemployment:
Unemployment:
The National Employment Agency (Agence nationale pour l'Emploi - ANPE) is responsible for the collection of data on jobseekers. The statistical processing is carried out by the Departmental Directorate of Labour and Employment (Direction départementale du Travail et de l'Emploi) and their publication is undertaken by the Statistics and Studies Service of the Ministry of Labour (Service des études et de la statistique du ministère du Travail).
The DEFM series covers the whole Department of Réunion through the National Employment Agency and the Employment Office for Dockers. The series covers all persons from 16 years of age to the legal retirement age who meet the definition given below.
The DEFM series is monthly. The data are made available in the course of the month following their collection.
Unemployment: Persons considered to be jobseekers are all those seeking employment, for whatever length of time, who are physically fit for work, who have taken steps to register at ANPE and have also made active efforts to find work.
More specifically, the following are considered to be jobseekers in so far as they satisfy the criteria of the above definition: persons seeking temporary work or part-time work; first jobseekers and re-entrants to the workforce; employable disabled persons; and persons laid off for more than four weeks. Responsibility for the loss of the last job does not affect classification as an unemployed person.
The following are not considered to be jobseekers: students seeking temporary employment (during vacations) - they are nevertheless entitled to register at ANPE and if so may be classified as jobseekers; persons receiving invalidity benefits and retirement or other pensioners, if they receive the full pension; persons laid off for less than four weeks; persons with some form of minimal employment; and persons on strike.
From 1987 the definition of unemployment is amended as follows: considered to be jobseekers are all persons seeking full-time employment, who are immediately available, physically fit for work and taking active steps to find employment.
Registration: Registration at ANPE is voluntary; however receipt of unemployment benefit depends on registration, which creates a strong incentive to register as a job seeker. Register maintenance is carried out monthly by mail.
Deletion from the register: The following are deleted from the register of unemployed and consequently excluded from the unemployment statistics: jobseekers temporarily unable to work owing to illness or accident, during their period of incapacity; however, if the temporary unavailability is due to leave, vacation, removal, etc., authorisation of absence is usually given by ANPE and the jobseekers continue to be counted as unemployed; jobseekers who refuse to fulfil the register maintenance requirements, those who do not respond to a request to report from ANPE and those who fail to renew their job applications; persons who systematically reject several job offers, after examination of their justifications; jobseekers who participate in State-assisted training/retraining/readaptation schemes, such as community-related work programmes (Travaux d'utilité collective - TUC); as well as jobseekers who systematically or excessively refuse offers to participate in such schemes; participants in job creation measures such as assistance to unemployed persons in setting up a business; and jobseekers who commit fraud or make false statements.
The reference period for the count of the unemployed is the last day of the month.
ANPE updates the registers monthly based on the renewal of job applications (register maintenance). Entries and exits at the end of the month are calculated at that time, and the accounting equation of flows (entries and exits) and stocks is checked each month. There is no estimation or adjustment of the DEFM series.
Unemployment rates are calculated as follows: the stock of job applications at the end of the month (DEFM) is taken as the numerator while the sum of the economically active population in employment plus the DEFM is taken as the denominator. The data on the stock of DEFM are provided by ANPE and those on the active population by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE).
Since September 1986 job applications are handled by computer through the Computerised Management of Job Applications system (Gestion informatisée de la demande d'emploi - GIDE); the DEFM records have been adjusted consequently.
In 1987 the definition of registered unemployment was modified (see under Definition).
Direction départementale du Travail et de l'Emploi: "Aperçu mensuel pour l'emploi du mois de..." (St. Clotilde, 1988).
Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE), Service régional de la Réunion: "Indicateurs conjoncturels - le tableau de bord mensuel de l'économie réunionnaise" (monthly) (ibid., 1987).
In issue No. 130 of October 1987, the latest available data relate to July 1987 and cover a summary of the three preceding years.
idem: "L'Economie de la Réunion - Panorama" (yearly) (ibid., 1987).
This edition provides annual data from 1983 to 1986. The publication also contains data on the distribution of unemployed by age group and on the number of persons receiving unemployment insurance benefits.