1. LAMAS Working Group 20-21 January 2016
Agenda Item 4.3 Draft report to the EP and the Council on the implementation of JVS regulation

2. Introduction
JVS Regulation, article 10, requires the Commission to report to the EP and the Council on its implementation every three years
The next report is due in June 2016
The report assess the quality of the statistics provided by Member States and the quality of the European aggregates
It draws upon experience accumulated through the quarterly data transmissions in and the annual quality reports for 2014

3. Draft report - sections
Introduction
Section 2 sets out the progress made over the last three years in implementing the JVS Regulation
Section 3 assesses the quality of job vacancy statistics
Section 4 focuses on the European aggregates
Section 5 draws conclusions and suggests ways in which users’ expectations can be met even better in the future

4. Section 2: Implementation
Legal framework
Two implementing regulations
Feasibility studies
Developments since the last report
Review of legislation
Seasonally adjusted data
News release

5. Review of legislation
The Commission examined if a new legal proposal could be launched
to extend the coverage of job vacancy data for countries that do not include the public sector and/or small businesses
It was concluded that such a review should take place in the broader context
of the ongoing revision of EU legislation in the field of business statistics (FRIBS project)

6. Seasonally adjusted data
All the Member States, expect Belgium, Finland, France, the Netherlands and Sweden provide SA data for both job vacancies and occupied posts
The Netherlands and Sweden provide SA figures only for job vacancies but not for occupied posts
Belgium and Finland have not provided seasonally adjusted data due to some changes in the JVS national methodology resulting in a break in time series.
The EFTA countries, Norway and Switzerland, have not transmitted SA figures

7. News release
Eurostat started to publish from June 2014 onwards a quarterly news release on the job vacancy rates
This new publication gave higher prominence to JVS
Some users showed their strong need for extending the data coverage in Denmark, France, Italy and Malta
France and Italy still do not release absolute figures severely hampering the usability of the JVS as such

8. Section 3: Quality
Quality assessed on the basis of the six main dimensions:
relevance
accuracy
timeliness/punctuality
coherence
comparability
accessibility/clarity

9. Relevance
The collection of JVS data provides the only harmonised source to measure unmet labour demand
The JV rate is one of the Principal European Economic Indicators (PEEIs)
JVS-based indicator has been included in the Joint Assessment Framework (JAF)
The relevance of the JVS would increase further if the existing coverage gaps regarding NACE sections O to S and small businesses were filled

10. Accuracy
The report will provide the range of the coefficients of variation for Member States estimates
Eurostat also consider to include the other main characteristics of the job vacancy surveys, in particular the sample size and response rate, as well as the data sources used for occupied posts

11. Coefficients of variation

12. The main characteristics of the job vacancy surveys

13. Section 4: European aggregates
European aggregates are continued to be disseminated only for the job vacancy rate, not for the absolute number of vacancies
The quality of European aggregates can be considered as satisfactory.
Eurostat intends publishing seasonally adjusted data for European aggregates in the second half of 2016.

14. Section 5: Conclusions
Country data have been transmitted in a timely manner
European aggregates have been published as scheduled
Most of the countries started to provide seasonally adjusted data on a regular basis
Eurostat started to publish a quarterly news release on the job vacancy rates.
Incomplete coverage is still the main reason why JVS data are not used more widely

15. LAMAS delegates are invited to:
The LAMAS working group is invited to:
Comment and agree on the draft report in Annex 3
Agree to complement existing information on job vacancy surveys by filling the template provided in Annex 2

16. Thank you for your attention!