1. French Labour Market Area
Stéphanie Mas
Direction of Animation of Research, Statistic and Study
French Ministry of Labour

2. History 1983: creation of French LMA for metropolitain territory
1993: some modifications
2007: creation of LMA for undersea territories
2010: large modifications -> new LMA

3. Main points
Aggregation based on regular travel flows from place of residence to place of work
Agregation of several neighbouring building blocks
Whole cover of France
Data: Population Census

4. Additional items Travel flows even if work is abroad
No confinement in administrative structures in the method
Absolutely for NUTS 3
With conditions for NUTS2 (large flows and enough size of population in two parts of the LMA separed by administrative boundary)

5. Method
Agregation, step by step, of most import travel flows between towns (or previous agregated area)
If more than x employed people, the area is a pole which can’t be agregated to another

6. Particular case Big cities like Paris -> secoundary areas
Working abroad
Enclosed areas
Areas on several NUTS2 (« Regions »)

7. Secoundaries areas ex: Bordeaux
Flows travel work/residence

8. Conception of areas with and without NUTS2 limit ex: Roissy (airport)
Travel flows residence/work (without Paris)
Limite of the LMA retained without NUTS2 limit (agregation of three LMA with NUTS2 limit)

9. Travel flows residence/work

10. French LMA: « zones d’emploi »

11. Utilisation of French LMA
Production of statistical indicators:
Unemployment rate
Activity rate
Employment rate
Employed people
Production
Agregation of data on LMA: population, income by person…