Tajikistan

1.Series

Title:

Registered unemployment.

Starting year:

Not specified.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Employment Centre of Population of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Type of agency:

State Employment Service of Population.

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

In all regions, cities and districts of the country.

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;
  • Paying unemployment compensation.

    Percentage of job-seekers seeking work through the agency:

    13-15%.

    3.The following information is registered about a person:

  • Name;
  • Sex;
  • Address of usual residence;
  • Date of birth;
  • Nationality/ethnic group;
  • Educational/vocational attainment;
  • Current/past activity status;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job;
  • Type of work (occupation) of job sought.

    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);
  • Availability for work (S);
  • Age (lower limit: 15 years; upper limit: 63 years) (S);
  • Being resident in the country (S);

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

  • Death (S);
  • Taking up residency abroad (S);
  • Commencement of a (new) job (S);
  • Commencement of military service (S);
  • Participation in an employment promotion scheme, public works programme, etc. (S);
  • Studying or undergoing training (S);
  • Failure to contact the agency/service (S);
  • Refusal of an unspecified number of suitable job offers (S);
  • Refusal of an unspecified number of suitable training offers (S);
  • Inability to work (S).

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    As outlined in the law of the Republic of Tajikistan "About Employment".

    7.Updating of the registers

    The registers are not updated regularly.

    8.Unemployment rates

    Statistics from the registers are used to obtain unemployment rates. The source of data on employed persons who are part of the denominator of the unemployment rates is the Survey of Foreign Labour Migration.

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Series 1:

    Reference period:

    Month.

    Frequency of production:

    Monthly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Previous work experience;
  • Citizenship (nationals/non nationals);
  • Duration of unemployment.

    Form of publication:

    For internal use only.

    Series 2:

    Reference period:

    Quarter.

    Frequency of production:

    Quarterly.

    Descriptive variables used:

  • Sex;
  • Age;
  • Educational level;
  • Occupation;
  • Previous work experience;
  • Citizenship (nationals/non nationals);
  • Duration of unemployment.

    Form of publication:

    For internal use only.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Form of release:

    On paper, for limited audience.

    Agency responsible for the release:

    Employment Centre of Population under the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare of the Republic of Tajikistan.

    11.Comparisons with unemployment statistics from other sources

    Comparisons have been made with unemployment statistics from the Population Census.

    Frequency of the comparisons:

    Occasionally.

    Publication of the methodology/results of the comparisons:

    These have not been published.

    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.