Uzbekistan

1. Starting year:

1993

2. Agency

2.1. English name of agency making initial registration

Divisions of Labour

2.2. Service

This is a public service under national, regional and local authorities

2.3. Offices

203 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, not specified

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 4 distinguished categories

4.10. Current and past work situation, with 6 distinguished situations

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

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

4.12.b. Industry of present/previous employer/work place, with an unspecified number of distinguished categories and without links to ISIC, rev.3 or NACE, rev.1 categories

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 years (females) and 60 years (males)

3. Length of previous employment,

with number of months unspecified

5. Completed military service

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

2. Report about entering new job and/or military service

3. After 12 weeks without contact

4. That the person has refused a job offer

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

1. That the person is employed

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

8.2. Age

A, B, C, D

8.3. Educational attainment

A, B, C, D

8.4. Occupation

A, B

8.5. Industry

not used

8.6. Duration of unemployment spell

9. Publication practices

9.1. Statistics

3. On paper,

for limited audience: A, B, C, D

9.2. Methodological information

2. On paper,

for limited audience

10. Comparisons

Comparisons are being made with other sources on a regular basis. No references have been given.

11. Major changes

Major changes in legislation or administrative capacity and/or procedures took place in 1994 and 1999. The size of the resulting increase in the statistics have not been estimated.