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Registered unemployment. By sex and age groups. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Registered unemployment. By sex and age groups. Total. Annual averages. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
16-19 20-24 25-39 40-54 55 and above Total
2015 8,924 25,263 161,444 208,863 129,964 534,459
2014 9,171 29,222 191,869 232,817 130,476 593,555
2013 9,365 32,964 223,854 245,740 125,371 637,295
2012 10,883 37,194 238,572 232,634 114,978 634,260
2011 12,892 38,357 237,061 207,414 102,501 598,225
Units: Persons.
Source:
2011-2014: Ministry for Business and Labour.
2015: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.
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.
Registered unemployment. By sex and age groups. Men. Annual averages. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
16-19 20-24 25-39 40-54 55 and above Total
2015 5,217 13,224 74,721 102,667 57,729 253,557
2014 5,330 15,610 93,874 118,571 60,188 293,574
2013 5,425 17,710 114,231 127,364 58,925 323,655
2012 6,432 20,347 124,749 121,410 55,050 327,988
2011 7,797 21,408 125,313 107,364 49,600 311,481
Units: Persons.
Source:
2011-2014: Ministry for Business and Labour.
2015: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.
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.
Registered unemployment. By sexe and age groups. Women. Annual averages. Counties, areas and provinces Catalonia
16-19 20-24 25-39 40-54 55 and above Total
2015 3,707 12,040 86,724 106,196 72,235 280,901
2014 3,841 13,612 97,994 114,245 70,288 299,981
2013 3,940 15,254 109,624 118,376 66,446 313,640
2012 4,451 16,847 113,823 111,224 59,927 306,272
2011 5,095 16,949 111,748 100,050 52,901 286,744
Units: Persons.
Source:
2011-2014: Ministry for Business and Labour.
2015: Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Families.
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: January 28, 2016.

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 "..".