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Registered unemployment. By branch of activity. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Registered unemployment. By branch of activity (CCAE-2009). Annual averages. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
Agriculture, livestock, forestry and fishing (01, 02, 03) Mining, energy, water & waste industries (05-09, 35-39) Food, textiles, wood, paper, & graphic arts (10-18) Chemicals & rubber (19-22) Metallurgy (23-25) Machinery, electric materials & transport (26-33) Construction (41, 42, 43) Wholesale trade & repair of motor vehicles and bikes (45-46) Retail trade (47) Transport & storage (49-53) Hostelry (55-56) Information & communications (58-63) Financial & insurance activities (64-66) Property professional & technical services (68-75) Administrative activities & auxiliary services (78-82, 77) Public administration (84) Education (85) Health & social services (86-88) Cultural & sport activities & other services (90-94, 95-99) No previous occupation Total
2014 13,965 5,635 36,128 9,179 15,082 17,428 76,160 33,655 58,512 19,135 54,775 9,896 5,816 34,381 86,816 15,514 12,867 22,478 33,435 32,700 593,555
2013 12,865 6,308 39,223 10,250 18,057 20,108 92,350 35,863 60,978 21,366 54,795 11,207 5,407 39,295 90,923 16,650 13,863 23,198 33,369 31,220 637,295
2012 11,901 6,658 39,459 10,326 18,838 21,341 101,035 33,734 57,965 20,435 51,050 10,825 5,873 42,228 86,354 17,487 13,236 22,338 31,317 31,861 634,260
2011 10,796 6,266 38,956 10,181 18,586 21,210 100,128 30,480 53,576 18,113 46,419 9,298 5,046 42,013 79,894 15,140 11,396 20,034 27,853 32,838 598,225
Units: Persons.
Source: Ministry for Business and Labour.
Note: Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: February 17, 2015.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Registered unemployment
People aged 16 years or more without work that, or that on the final day of the month have a job offer registered in the offices of the Generalitat or INEM but have yet to effectively start working. This does not include the following groups: workers unavailable for immediate employment or in incompatible situations with work, workers demanding work of a specific nature (such as work abroad) and temporary agricultural workers that benefit from a special unemployment subsidy. Also excluded are those people that unjustifiably refuse to take part in vocational training courses.

Methodological aspects

The unemployment data comes from two types of source: the statistics produced by bodies that are specialised in the production of statistical information and those resulting from the management of certain institutions with responsibilities for labour matters.

It should be noted that, due to this diversity of sources, three types of unemployment statistics are presented Statistical Yearbook:

  • unemployed population (estimated unemployment), obtained from the EPA.
  • registered unemployment on the basis of data from the employment offices of the Generalitat and Inem.
  • unemployed population taken from the Population census.

The second type of statistics is obtained from the administrative records of the competent bodies, which normally produce and publish the data. Of importance is the data on registered unemployment by counties provided by the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.

Regarding the registered unemployment data, it should be noted that from May 2005, a new model was adopted for the management of data, called SISPE (Public Employment Services Information System), which implies changes in the collection and treatment of data, and which led to a break in the series for registered unemployment. This edition of the Annual presents provisional data revised from February 2001 to December 2004.

The new county of El Moianès was created on 1 May 2015 (Law 4/2015, of 23 April, on the creation of the county of El Moianès) from the aggregation of five municipalities of the county of El Bages, one from the county of Osona and four from the county of El Vallès Oriental.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".