Thailand
1.Series
Title:
Registered job-seekers.
Starting year:
Not specified.
2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons
Name of the agency:
Department of Employment.
Type of agency:
Public service under a national authority.
Name of the national authority:
Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare.
Location of the local offices making the registrations:
84 Employment Offices throughout the country - in every province and in Bangkok.
Type of services provided/administered by the agency:
Assisting job-seekers to find jobs;
Assisting job-seekers to establish their own business;
Assisting employers to find workers;
Vocational guidance;
Job-related training;
Other: assisting disabled persons to find jobs.
Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:
20%.
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;
Educational/vocational attainment, with nine categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have not been established;
Type of work (occupation) of past or present job with nine groups distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established (major groups level);
Type of work (occupation) of job sought, with nine groups distinguished. Links to ISCO-88 have been established (major groups level);
Name of previous work place;
Other: disability (in the case of a disabled person).
4.Criteria used for inclusion of a person in the registers (R) and/or the statistics of unemployed persons (S):
Information not available.
5.Criteria used for exclusion of a person from the registers (R) and/or the statistics of unemployed persons (S):
Information not available.
6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics
Persons who are willing to work but cannot find a job for any reason (end of work contract, mismatched qualifications, etc.).
7.Updating of the registers
It is not indicated whether or not the registers are updated regularly.
8.Unemployment rates
Statistics from the registers are used to obtain unemployment rates. The sources of data on employed persons who are part of the denominator of the unemployment rates are the Labour Force Survey and the Population Census.
Definition of employed persons for this purpose:
Workers (including employers or entrepreneurs) who have an income in money or in kind.
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.