Relevance
The main scope of the Job Vacancies
Survey as laid down in the regulation (EC) No. 453/2008 requires the regular
quarterly production of statistics on community job vacancies. Enterprises
are asked to provide average figures per quarter namely when it comes to the
number of occupied posts together with the number of vacancies which arose
during that quarter.
Methodological
description of survey
The
Job Vacancy Survey is a quarterly survey with a sample size of approximately 2,000
enterprises. The target population for this enquiry comprises enterprises
employing 1 or more persons and operating in all economic activities with the
exception of agriculture and fishing, activities of households as employers,
undifferentiated goods and services-producing activities of households for own
use and activities of extra territorial organisations and bodies (NACE A, T,
U). The sampling
strategy for this survey is stratified random.
Data
for the surveyed companies is collected either via email or by post (only for
entities for which no email address is available). Following the elapse of the deadline, a
reminder (via email) is sent to non-responding units and additional chasing is
carried out by telephone.
Another
part of the survey relates to information collected from the public
sector. To this end all data pertaining
to employment and vacancies generated within government ministries, departments
and organisations is collected via administrative sources.
Accuracy
and reliability of data
Information
on the accuracy and reliability of data can be viewed in a dedicated metadata
report available on the NSO’s metadata website.
Timeliness
and punctuality of data
Data
collection starts during the first week following the end of quarter. First
results are finalised 70 days after the end of quarter and submitted to
Eurostat within the stipulated timeframes.
Accessibility
and clarity of data
At
a national level, no statistics related to JVS are released but data can be
downloaded from Eurostat’s online database.
A
quality report is compiled and sent annually to Eurostat whereas a metadata
report is available on the NSO’s metadata website.
Coherence
and comparability/consistency of data
Definitions
are harmonised across all European Union (EU) Member States, thus data is fully
comparable at EU level. Differences in coverage exist since a number of Member States
do not cover enterprises employing one or more persons or do not cover all the
economic activities as stipulated in the regulation. Since 2017 the national JVS started to be fully
compliant with the target population that is to be covered in the job vacancy
survey and prior to this year, national data on job vacancies only related to
enterprises employing 10 or more persons.
Overall, employment
data is in line with that compiled from the Business Register. On the other
hand, coherence across domains for data on job vacancies is not possible since
information on vacated posts is not available from other sources.
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