Suriname
1.Series
Title:
Statistics of registered job-seekers.
Starting year:
1983.
2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons
Name of the agency:
Dienst der Arbeidsbemiddeling (Labour Exchange Bureau).
Type of agency:
Public service under a national authority.
Name of the national authority:
Ministry of Labour Technological Development and Environment.
Location of the local offices making the registrations:
In the districts of Paramaribo, Saramacca and Nickerie.
Type of services provided/administered by the agency:
Assisting job-seekers to find jobs;
Assisting employers to find workers;
Job-related training;
Other: access to relevant labour market information.
Number of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:
About 80 persons per month.
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;
Citizenship;
Nationality/ethnic group;
Educational/vocational attainment, with an unspecified number of categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have been established;
Current/past activity status, with three categories distinguished;
Type of work (occupation) of past or present job with nine groups distinguished. No links to ISCO-88 have been established;
Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with nine groups distinguished. No links to ISCO-88 have been established; Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace, with nine groups distinguished. No 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 (S);
Seeking work (S);
Age (lower limit: 15 years; upper limit: 65 years) (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):
Taking up residency abroad (S);
Studying or undergoing training (S);
Inability to work (S).
6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics
Information not available.
7.Updating of the registers
It is not known whether the registers are updated regularly.
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 do not appear to have been made with unemployment statistics from other sources.
12.Major changes since the start of the statistics
There do not appear to have been any major changes in legislation, capacity of the agency and/or administrative procedures which had a significant influence on the statistics.