Urban Audit - Metadata

Residents Unemployed, Male and Female Residents Unemployment

Department "Statistics of Environment, Infrastructure and Regions"

Division "Regional statistics and GIS"

Valeriya Angelova

Senior expert

2, P. Volov Str., Sofia 1038

vangelova@nsi.bg

+359 2 9857 531

Metadata last update: 01.07.2012
Number	Concept	Description
1	Data description	The number of job seekers registred at the Labour offices during the year. The registration takes place according to the residence.
2	Classification used	Unified Classification of Administrative-Territorial and Territorial Units (UCATTU)
3	Coverage	The suvey does not include the job seekers who do not have a registration at Labour offices. In the survey are included the persons above 15 and under 65 who, during the reference period, were residents of the Urban Audit spatial units and who were: • without work, i.e. neither had a job nor were at work (for one hour or more) in paid employment or self employment; • available for work, i.e. were available for paid employment or self employment; • actively seeking work, i.e. had taken specific steps to seek paid employment or self employment.
4	Unit of measure	Number
5	Reference period	Year
6	Time coverage	2005 - 2009
7	Release policy	The date of the statistical information release is shown in the Calendar of the NSI statistical surveys.
8	Dissemination format	• www.nsi.bg
9	Methodological documents	• Compilation of variable definitions - Eurostat
10	Source data	Data are collected by the National Employment Agency and are submitted to the NSI in the frames of the Urban Audit project. Data source is the Register of the unemployment.
11	Frequency of data collection	Yearly
12	Data collection method	Exhaustively for all registered job seekers in the Urban Audit spatial units.