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Registered unemployment. By academic level. Counties and Aran, areas and provinces

Registered unemployment. By academic level (CNED-2000). Annual averages. Counties, areas and provinces 2008
Primary education Secondary education Higher education
No studies Incomplete Complete Professional training General education Professional training 1st cycle 2nd and 3rd cycle Other Total
Alt Camp 14 87 225 161 1,431 95 33 52 0 2,099
Alt Empordà 158 778 908 265 3,087 130 88 130 4 5,546
Alt Penedès 12 166 577 379 2,693 223 93 120 3 4,266
Alt Urgell 1 20 52 45 431 24 20 25 0 619
Alta Ribagorça 0 3 12 6 50 4 2 3 0 80
Anoia 27 271 842 498 4,576 322 109 111 2 6,757
Bages 76 362 1,883 563 4,921 420 160 231 7 8,623
Baix Camp 87 914 1,044 599 4,958 314 160 219 7 8,302
Baix Ebre 182 350 392 245 2,066 146 62 74 2 3,519
Baix Empordà 465 576 604 305 3,553 203 97 134 3 5,939
Baix Llobregat 307 1,906 3,575 3,381 23,183 2,253 857 1,105 17 36,585
Baix Penedès 119 358 510 485 3,837 240 68 94 4 5,715
Barcelonès 398 3,386 7,688 7,380 60,915 5,548 3,462 6,814 114 95,705
Berguedà 1 77 131 148 1,278 91 43 43 1 1,813
Cerdanya 0 23 42 31 317 18 9 10 1 452
Conca de Barberà 4 27 87 51 538 39 13 11 0 770
Garraf 38 434 961 577 4,079 302 213 288 4 6,897
Garrigues 5 70 47 22 325 19 8 5 0 501
Garrotxa 25 270 534 91 898 85 45 54 4 2,006
Gironès 162 888 591 362 4,798 290 163 296 7 7,556
Maresme 261 1,159 1,451 1,620 14,641 1,142 526 707 15 21,523
Montsià 19 150 219 255 1,667 195 70 88 0 2,664
Noguera 4 62 44 78 1,008 45 30 21 0 1,291
Osona 51 556 972 525 4,221 363 162 240 18 7,107
Pallars Jussà 3 33 41 40 205 28 12 16 1 378
Pallars Sobirà 1 9 23 28 94 13 9 10 1 187
Pla d'Urgell 15 209 66 46 665 39 13 18 0 1,073
Pla de l'Estany 9 75 72 56 561 34 23 44 0 874
Priorat 1 11 21 27 185 16 7 10 0 279
Ribera d'Ebre 2 42 38 60 516 42 9 13 1 724
Ripollès 0 54 163 71 656 56 21 29 0 1,049
Segarra 5 87 108 37 423 23 11 10 0 704
Segrià 75 720 553 415 4,635 293 209 178 7 7,085
Selva 49 641 458 425 5,416 243 109 137 5 7,481
Solsonès 2 35 35 26 269 16 6 8 0 399
Tarragonès 146 1,072 1,504 771 7,053 468 250 315 16 11,594
Terra Alta 1 17 27 22 222 15 6 9 0 318
Urgell 10 177 158 75 836 43 17 21 1 1,338
Val d'Aran 2 13 24 11 133 6 3 4 1 197
Vallès Occidental 278 1,843 4,523 3,636 29,981 2,121 1,014 1,622 27 45,043
Vallès Oriental 154 941 1,838 1,740 11,763 1,097 454 601 12 18,601
Catalonia 3,168 18,871 33,045 25,556 213,081 17,065 8,665 13,917 285 333,653
Metropolità 1,449 9,835 20,614 18,712 147,254 12,687 6,620 11,256 192 228,620
Comarques Gironines 867 3,281 3,330 1,574 18,968 1,042 545 822 24 30,451
Camp de Tarragona 370 2,469 3,391 2,094 18,002 1,172 532 702 27 28,758
Terres de l'Ebre 204 559 677 583 4,471 398 147 183 3 7,224
Ponent 115 1,324 976 673 7,892 462 287 253 9 11,991
Comarques Centrals 157 1,301 3,864 1,759 15,265 1,212 479 633 27 24,697
Alt Pirineu i Aran 7 101 193 161 1,230 92 55 68 3 1,912
Barcelona 1,603 11,103 24,446 20,454 162,294 13,884 7,093 11,879 219 252,976
Girona 867 3,299 3,366 1,593 19,186 1,056 553 831 25 30,775
Lleida 124 1,441 1,165 832 9,128 555 341 322 11 13,920
Tarragona 574 3,028 4,068 2,677 22,473 1,570 679 885 29 35,982
Units: Persons.
Source: Departament de Treball. Servei d'Estudis i Estadístiques.

Last update: June 18, 2009.

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 "..".