Ukraine

1. Starting year:

1991

2. Agency

2.1. English name of agency making initial registration

State Employment Service

2.2. Service

This is a public service under a national authority

2.3. Offices

584 local offices are making the registrations

2.4. Location

Offices are located in all parts of the country, to cover all labour markets and localities

3. The agency

3.1. Assists job seekers to find jobs

3.2. Assists employers to find workers

3.3. Provides vocational guidance

3.4. Provides job related training

3.5. Pays unemployment compensation

3.6. Provides other employment related services, such as organisation of public and seasonal work, subsidies for the organisation of small businesses, preparation of information on the labour market situation

4. The following is registered about a person:

4.1. Name

4.2. Sex

4.4. Address of usual residence

4.5. Locality of usual residence

4.6. Year of birth

4.7. Citizenship

4.8. Nationality/ethnic group

4.9. Educational attainment/training, with 6 distinguished categories

4.10. Current and past work situation, with 14 distinguished situations

4.11. Occupation, with 9 distinguished categories, with links to ISCO-88 major groups

4.12. Name and address of present/previous employer/work place

4.12.b. Industry of present/previous employer/work place, with 12 distinguished categories; with no links to ISIC, rev.3 or NACE, rev.1

4.13. Periods of previous registrations

5. Criteria used for registration and inclusion in the statistics:

5.1. Criteria used to determine whether a person should be included in the register

1. Age:
Lower age limit: 16 years. Upper age limits: 55 (females) and 60 (males)
6. Other conditions linked to previous employment,
such as not receiving any wage, salary or other subsistence allowance

5.2. Criteria used to determine whether a person should be removed from the register

1. Report about death and/or migration

2. Report about entering new job and/or military service
or prison
3. After 1 month without contact
4. If the person has refused two job offers
6. Other reasons,
such as receiving forced medical treatment or reached retirement age

5.3. Criteria used to exclude a registered person from the statistics

1. That the person is employed

2. That the person is receiving full-time training/education

6. Information about individuals is stored:

6.1. In the local register

7. Type of statistics produced at least once every year:

A. The number of persons registered as unemployed on a particular day, is produced monthly

B. The number of persons added to the register during the period, is produced monthly

C. The number of persons removed from the register during the period, is produced monthly

D. The number of registered persons who were given a job during the period, is produced monthly

E. The number of persons who returned to the register during the period, is produced monthly

8. The following descriptive variables are used with the different statistics:

8.1. Sex

A, B, C, D, E

8.2. Age

A, B, C, D

8.3. Educational attainment

A, B, C, D, E

8.4. Occupation

A

8.5. Industry

A, D

8.6. Duration of unemployment spell

A

9. Publication practices

9.1. Statistics

3. On paper,
for general audience: A, B, C, D, E

4. In machine readable form,
on request: A, B, C, D, E

9.2. Methodological information

2. On paper,
for general audience

4. In machine readable form,
on request

10. Comparisons

Comparisons are made with statistics based on Labour Force Survey and other types of household surveys: regularly, when those statistics are published. Will be made with the results from the Population census. No references given.

11. Major changes

No major changes in legislation or administrative capacity and/or procedures which influence the statistics have been reported.