Uruguay

1.Series

Title:

Employment offer and demand in private placement agencies and User Register of the Employment Training Programme.

Starting year:

1993.

2.Agency making the initial registrations of unemployed persons

Name of the agency:

Dirección Nacional de Empleo - DINAE (National Employment Agency).

Type of agency:

Public service under a national authority.

Name of the national authority:

Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social (Ministry of Labour and Social Security).

Location of the local offices making the registrations:

All over the country.

Type of services provided/administered by the agency:

  • Vocational guidance;
  • Job-related training;
  • Other: information on the labour market.

    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 14 categories distinguished. Links to ISCED have not been established;
  • Past activity status;
  • Type of work (occupation) of past or present job with four categories distinguished. The National Standard Classification of Occupations (CNUO-95) (four digits), based on ISCO-88, is used;
  • Name and address of present or previous employer or work place;
  • Type of business (industry) of present/previous employer/workplace, with four categories distinguished. The National Classification of all Branches of Economic Activities (four digits), based on ISIC, rev.3, is used.

    * Information concerning workers registered with the Employment Training Programme.

    4.Criteria used for inclusion of a person in the registers (R) and/or the statistics of unemployed persons (S):

  • Being without work (R);
  • Seeking work (R);
  • Availability for work (R);
  • Age (lower and upper limits: not specified) (R);
  • Previously employed (the Employment Training Programme users are considered as unemployed, i.e. they have worked and have lost their job (R);
  • Previous payment of unemployed insurance contributions (in order to be registered with the Employment Training Programme, the person has to be benefiting from unemployment compensation, and therefore must have paid his/her contributions (R);
  • Other: not having had higher education (only for Employment Training Programme users).

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

    Not specified.

    6.Definition of unemployed persons used for the statistics

    Regarding the Employment Training Programme users, criteria for inclusion are the following:
  • Receiving unemployment compensation;
  • Having been laid off (without possibility of being reintegrated in the company);
  • Not having had higher education.

    7.Updating of the registers

    Not specified.

    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 labour force survey.

    Definition of employed persons for this purpose:

    Persons aged 14 years or more who worked at least for one hour during the week preceding the survey.

    9.Type of statistics of unemployed persons produced

    Not specified.

    10.Methodological information about the statistics

    Not specified.

    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.