This Regulation establishes the variables, the length, level of detail and quality requirements of monthly unemployment data to be transmitted to the Commission (Eurostat) under Regulation (EU) 2019/1700.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2241 of 16 December 2019 describing the variables and the length, quality requirements and level of detail of the time series for the transmission of monthly unemployment data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2241 of 16 December 2019 describing the variables and the length, quality requirements and level of detail of the time series for the transmission of monthly unemployment data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2019/1700 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 October 2019 establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to persons and households, based on data at individual level collected from samples, amending Regulations (EC) No 808/2004, (EC) No 452/2008 and (EC) No 1338/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1177/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC) No 577/98(1), and in particular Article 7(3) thereof,
Whereas:
The provision of monthly unemployment data by Member States plays an essential role in informing the Commission (Eurostat) and thus supporting the Union key priorities for growth and job creation by ensuring the use of timely and comparable data for the formulation and monitoring of the Union’s policies targeted to those priorities.
Monthly unemployment data are used to compile the Monthly Unemployment Rate (MUR), which is one of Principal European Economic Indicators(2).
The monthly unemployment statistics should be based on internationally agreed concepts as defined by the International Labour Organization (ILO).
In case Member States do not compile the monthly unemployment statistics in accordance with the ILO definition, they should compile monthly unemployment estimates or transmit monthly unemployment inputs to the Commission (Eurostat) that would compile such monthly estimates on their behalf.
Monthly unemployment data should measure unemployment at the reference month, after adjusting for possible seasonal effects without excessive smoothing. They should be consistent with the quarterly data collected in the labour force domain under Regulation (EU) 2019/1700.
Member States should transmit monthly unemployment data according to a precise timetable so that the Commission (Eurostat) can meet the timeliness requirements of the users.
The quality of monthly unemployment data should be monitored through a set of commonly agreed and uniformly applied indicators.
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European System Statistical Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1 Subject matter
Article 2 Definitions
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
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‘monthly unemployment statistics’ means the record of the number of employed and unemployed persons, and the derived ‘monthly unemployment rate’, in accordance with the ILO definition(3) as implemented in the labour force domain under Regulation (EU) 2019/1700;
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‘monthly unemployment rate’ means the number of unemployed persons divided by the number of employed and unemployed persons for the reference month;
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‘monthly unemployment inputs’ means the record of the number of unemployed persons registered in the Public Employment Services of the Member States;
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‘monthly unemployment estimates’ means the combination of quarterly data based on the ILO definition, as implemented in the labour force domain under Regulation (EU) 2019/1700, and monthly registered unemployment;
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‘monthly unemployment data’ means the data to be transmitted in accordance with this Regulation, namely monthly unemployment statistics, monthly unemployment inputs or monthly unemployment estimates;
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‘reference month’ means the set of weeks assembled in the following way:
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Each week belonging to a reference quarter, as established for the quarterly data collected in the labour force domain under Regulation (EU) 2019/1700, is allocated to only one of the three reference months belonging to that quarter;
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Weeks that belong in full to a calendar month are allocated to the corresponding reference month;
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Weeks that cross over two calendar months are allocated to one of the two corresponding reference months.
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Article 3 Data requirements
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Member States shall transmit to the Commission (Eurostat) either monthly unemployment statistics [option 1]; monthly unemployment inputs [option 2] or monthly unemployment estimates [option 3].
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Data sets containing monthly unemployment statistics shall include monthly statistics that are representative of the entire reference month.
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Data sets containing monthly unemployment inputs shall include data corresponding to the number of persons that were registered as unemployed at a given period of the calendar month.
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Registered unemployment figures used in the compilation of monthly unemployment estimates shall correspond to the number of persons that were registered as unemployed at a given period of the calendar month.
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The names and definitions of the variables to be transmitted shall be those listed in Annex I for monthly unemployment statistics [option 1], in Annex II for monthly unemployment inputs [option 2] and in Annex III for monthly unemployment estimates [option 3].
Article 4 Transmission deadlines
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Monthly unemployment data shall be transmitted each month within the deadlines set in Annex V of Regulation (EU) 2019/1700, as follows:
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for Member States having chosen option 1, the monthly unemployment statistics shall be transmitted within 27 days after the calendar month;
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for Member States having chosen option 2, the monthly unemployment inputs shall be transmitted within 25 days after the calendar month;
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for Member States having chosen option 3, the monthly unemployment estimates shall be transmitted within 25 days after the calendar month.
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In months where the deadline falls on Saturday or Sunday, the effective deadline shall be the following Monday. Monthly unemployment data for the reference month of November shall be transmitted by 31 December.
Data transmission shall start at the latest for the reference month of May 2021.