1. Regional Labour Market
Item 2.2 of the agenda
Daniela Sciranková
Eurostat Unit E4
WG on Regional, Urban and Rural Development statistics – October 2017

2. Regional labour market statistics
LFS NUTS 2 data dissemination
Annual NUTS 3 data collection
Labour market aggregates by typologies

3. NUTS 2 data dissemination
Annual EU-LFS NUTS 2 data published on 27 April 2017
News Release on Unemployment in the EU regions
Unemployment rates fell in 8 out of 10 EU regions
High media interest in regional unemployment figures
Main highlight: "Unemployment rates fell in 8 out of 10 EU regions"

4. Eurostat in media 564 mentions 496 on twitter.com 45 on News
18 on blogs

5. Eurostat on Twitter In 2017: 3 comments, 248 retweets and 112 likes
In 2016: 1 comment, 134 retweets and 51 likes

6. Annual NUTS 3 data collection
Request for:
Employed persons
Working age population
Unemployed persons
Economically active population
Population aged by educational attainment level

7. NUTS 3 data collection
18 countries allow use of aggregations based on LFS microdata
IE and AT provide unemployment data to E4 to complement the NUTS 3 micro data
ES, FR, HR, PL, RO and SI provide tabulated data
PT send data already aggregated by typologies and tabulated data on population
DE send data already aggregated by typologies
Note: LU and CY are a single NUTS 3 region (NUTS 3 = NUTS 0)

8. Transmission of 2016 NUTS 3 data
Data received from 25 out of the relevant 26 MS
MS in orange:
aggregated data based on LFS micro data (+ tabulated data on unemployment sent to unit E4 to complement micro data aggregations)
MS in blue:
tabulated data and data aggregated by typology sent to unit E4
Transmission of 2016 NUTS 3 data – State of play

9. Unemployment NUTS3 data for the age class Y15-74
Currently: unemployment NUTS 3 data (unemployed persons and active population) for four age classes: Y15-24, Y_GE15, Y20-64 and Y_GE25.
Next NUTS 3 data collection request: include unemployment data also for Y15-74
The Member States that transmit tabulated NUTS 3 data to Eurostat unit E4 will be asked in the next data collection request to provide us with the unemployment data also for the age class Y15-74.

10. Update of the labour market data by typologies
2016 data for Metropolitan regions datasets published in September
Coming soon:
Datasets by Coastal regions and Urban-Rural typology will be available together with 3 new typologies: Mountain regions, Island regions and Border regions in a single dataset per indicator
Available in folder:
Labour market datasets by other typologies

11. Thank you for your ATTENTION!
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