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.
Job vacancy statistics (JVS) correspond to the part of
labour demand that is not met by labour supply and thus provide key
information on the size and structure of labour market
mismatches.
This is the third report presented by the Commission
to the European Parliament and the Council. It draws on experience
of providing data at quarterly intervals and on documentation
provided by Member States in their annual quality
reports.
To complement the general framework established by
Regulation (EC) No 453/2008, the Commission adopted two
implementing Regulations:
- Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1062/2008, which defines the seasonal
adjustment procedures to be applied from the first quarter of 2014,
the structure and content of the annual quality reports which the
Member States are to supply to the Commission, and the dates on
which these reports are to be sent;
- Commission
Regulation (EC) No 19/2009, which defines the term job
vacancy, sets deadlines for sending data and specifies the
periods to be covered by the first set of data
supplied.
The main conclusions of the report are as
follows:
- since the second report presented to the European
Parliament and the Council in 2013, much progress has been
made on implementing JVS legislation and collecting sound
statistics on job vacancies. All Member States except Belgium,
Finland and Sweden now provide seasonally adjusted data for both
job vacancies and occupied posts which are published regularly by
Eurostat. Eurostat intends to publish seasonally adjusted data for
European aggregates in the second half of 2016;
- Job Vacancy Statistics data have been supplied in
good time and European aggregates have been published as
scheduled, although there is scope for further progress in
timeliness in years to come. In general, the European aggregates
published, for both the flash and final estimates, have been
subject to minor revisions;
- Eurostat started publishing a quarterly news
release on job vacancy rates. This new publication gives
greater prominence to JVS and has been well received by users.
However, some of these, including the European Central Bank, said
there was a need for the four Member States which did not yet cover
the economy as a whole (Denmark, France, Italy and Malta) to do so.
They also requested that the number of vacancies and the job
vacancy rate be published for all Member States, the euro area and
the European Union;
- incomplete coverage is
still the main reason why JVS data are not used more widely. It is
vital for all Member States to fully cover the public sector and
small businesses in their quarterly estimates. Improved
coverage would also enable the number of vacancies for the European
aggregates to be published.
The Commission examined whether, in the light of the
feasibility studies, a new legislative proposal could be
envisaged that would extend the coverage of job vacancy data for
countries that do not include the public sector and/or small
businesses. It was concluded that such a review should take place
in the broader context of revising of EU business statistics
legislation (future Framework Regulation on Integrated Business
Statistics project - FRIBS).