Article 10 of the Job Vacancy Statistics
Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 453/2008) requires the
Commission to report to the European Parliament and the Council on
its implementation by 24 June 2010 and every three years
thereafter. The report assesses the quality of the statistics
provided by Member States and the quality of the European
aggregates, and identifies potential areas for
improvement.
This is the second report that the Commission submits
to the European Parliament and to the Council. It draws upon
experience accumulated through the quarterly data transmissions and
documentation provided by the Member States in their annual quality
reports.
The reports main conclusions are as
follows:
- Much progress has been made in the past three
years to implement job vacancy statistics (JVS) legislation and to
build sound statistics in the field of job vacancies.
- Country data have been transmitted in a timely
manner and European aggregates have been published as
scheduled. Timeliness improved further in 2011 when Eurostat
started publishing flash estimates. The European aggregates
published, for both the flash and final estimates, have been
subject to only minor revisions.
- Moreover, some of the countries that had previously
produced more limited coverage of the economy have increased the
scope of their JVS surveys in the recent past.
- Nevertheless, incomplete coverage is still the main
reason that JVS data are not used more widely. It is of the
utmost importance that all Member States fully cover the public
sector and small businesses in their quarterly estimates. The
Commission will examine how to improve the situation in this
regard, including the possibility of new legislative
initiatives, with a view to ensuring the necessary
improvements.