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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 2011
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 36 180 448 358 2,347 188 84 78 4 3,722
Alt Empordà 440 1,703 1,754 496 5,208 250 177 233 6 10,268
Alt Penedès 65 425 1,138 718 5,001 414 210 260 8 8,239
Alt Urgell 1 22 111 111 669 57 34 44 2 1,050
Alta Ribagorça 3 12 29 17 77 7 2 6 0 153
Anoia 61 524 1,189 880 7,206 626 243 245 5 10,978
Bages 146 665 2,857 1,208 8,847 786 375 477 16 15,377
Baix Camp 254 1,723 2,623 1,221 8,515 684 314 470 31 15,834
Baix Ebre 394 459 790 571 3,957 337 158 164 4 6,833
Baix Empordà 1,247 936 1,299 606 5,661 361 192 263 5 10,568
Baix Llobregat 856 2,865 5,224 6,352 41,751 4,239 1,834 2,349 48 65,518
Baix Penedès 330 648 820 942 7,102 473 167 220 12 10,715
Barcelonès 943 5,883 12,687 13,612 105,100 10,291 6,403 12,809 262 167,988
Berguedà 2 158 200 276 2,000 201 84 93 1 3,015
Cerdanya 0 53 79 53 554 38 20 23 1 821
Conca de Barberà 14 48 163 122 818 76 28 37 0 1,306
Garraf 64 706 1,601 1,063 7,560 670 422 672 8 12,765
Garrigues 6 115 113 52 610 48 25 25 1 996
Garrotxa 36 316 758 173 1,590 156 90 121 6 3,245
Gironès 452 1,999 1,006 773 8,343 560 392 581 12 14,116
Maresme 847 2,224 2,631 3,017 23,485 2,068 1,113 1,482 32 36,900
Montsià 69 291 486 497 3,710 364 124 161 1 5,704
Noguera 23 135 158 173 2,002 97 64 49 1 2,701
Osona 189 1,069 1,724 972 7,352 586 327 443 20 12,682
Pallars Jussà 13 65 115 90 398 53 35 25 0 794
Pallars Sobirà 0 15 48 56 163 16 18 28 1 343
Pla d'Urgell 27 339 249 122 1,354 100 56 48 0 2,295
Pla de l'Estany 29 168 117 98 1,028 68 44 66 0 1,617
Priorat 9 24 35 60 362 37 13 18 1 558
Ribera d'Ebre 26 92 71 128 956 92 23 29 0 1,416
Ripollès 3 167 175 123 920 87 51 50 0 1,576
Segarra 9 188 299 75 658 55 24 35 0 1,343
Segrià 241 1,772 1,699 883 9,470 654 423 423 8 15,573
Selva 122 1,104 869 813 9,352 492 199 234 7 13,193
Solsonès 10 69 66 61 576 50 12 22 0 866
Tarragonès 341 1,930 2,401 1,538 12,043 998 514 683 30 20,477
Terra Alta 2 18 33 47 422 18 10 10 0 559
Urgell 18 349 490 141 1,320 114 55 56 2 2,544
Val d'Aran 10 24 89 31 243 18 12 20 1 446
Vallès Occidental 609 3,135 7,116 6,856 51,387 4,300 2,074 3,280 70 78,826
Vallès Oriental 432 1,930 3,174 3,210 21,428 2,043 871 1,186 32 34,307
Catalonia 8,377 34,548 56,929 48,588 371,545 32,772 17,313 27,518 635 598,225
Metropolità 3,687 16,037 30,831 33,046 243,151 22,942 12,294 21,106 443 404,543
Comarques Gironines 2,329 6,394 5,978 3,080 32,102 1,974 1,144 1,547 36 54,583
Camp de Tarragona 653 3,905 5,669 3,298 24,084 1,983 954 1,286 66 52,613
Terres de l'Ebre 490 859 1,380 1,242 9,045 811 314 365 5 14,511
Ponent 325 2,898 3,008 1,445 15,413 1,068 647 636 11 25,451
Comarques Centrals 347 1,961 4,847 2,516 18,775 1,622 798 1,036 37 42,917
Alt Pirineu i Aran 27 191 469 359 2,104 189 120 145 4 3,608
Penedès 520 2,303 4,747 3,603 26,870 2,183 1,042 1,397 33 42,697
Barcelona 4,213 19,586 39,544 38,170 281,196 26,224 13,954 23,295 500 446,683
Girona 2,330 6,442 6,041 3,119 32,487 2,003 1,162 1,567 36 55,188
Lleida 361 3,108 3,476 1,818 17,630 1,277 762 785 15 29,231
Tarragona 1,473 5,412 7,869 5,482 40,231 3,267 1,435 1,871 84 67,123
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: January 30, 2012.

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 "..".