| The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness |
| Coverage characteristics | 5.1.1 Statistical presentation
- Data are disseminated on the number of persons registered at employment offices on the last day of each month, or the last working day prior to this date.
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| Periodicity | 4.1.1 Periodicity
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| Timeliness | 4.1.2 Timeliness
- About two working days after the reference date.
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| Access by the Public |
Advance dissemination of
release calendar | 5.1.3 Advance release calendar
- Precise release dates for 4 months in advance are published on the IMF's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (http://dsbb.imf.org/Applications/web/sddsctycatarclist/?strcode=AUT).
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Simultaneous release to all
interested parties | 5.1.4 Simultaneous release
- Data are made available to all users simultaneously in the press release Die Arbeitsmarktlage Ende xx xx (e.g. October 2002) issued at the press conference given by the Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection. Subsequently the same data are made available on the AMS's Internet site http://www.ams.or.at.
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| Integrity |
Dissemination of terms and
conditions under which
official statistics are
produced, including those
relating to the confidentiality
of individually identifiable
information | 0.1.1 Responsibility for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistics
- The compilation of statistics by the AMS is based on paragraph 4 and 30 of the Arbeitsmarktservicegesetz of 1994. Paragraph 4 (2) Pkt. 5d, states that "The Public Employment Service has to provide ... prerequisites for conducting its services by... monitoring the labour market, compiling statistics and doing research and development in the field of labour market, employment and professions. Paragraph 30 (2), states that "The AMS is in charge of monitoring the labour market, compiling statistics and doing research and development in the field of labour market, employment and professions."
- The dissemination of unemployment data by the AMS is done as a public service.
0.1.3 Confidentiality of individual reporters' data
- Confidentiality of individual data is assured by the Datenschutzgesetz 1978.
1.2.1 Disclosure of terms and conditions for statistical collection, processing, and dissemination
- Arbeitsmarktservicegesetz and Datenschutzgesetz 1978 are available in German only. Copies of these documents can be obtained from the contact person.
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Identification of internal
government access to data
before release | 1.2.2 Internal governmental access to statistics prior to release
- The AMS and the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection, which is the supervising authority of the AMS, have access to the database on unemployment.
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Identification of ministerial
commentary on the occasion of
statistical releases | 1.2.3 Attribution of statistical products
- The press release of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection provides a set of tables and the Ministers interpretation of the data, which is clearly separated from the statistics themselves.
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Provision of information
about revision and advance
notice of major changes in
methodology | 4.3.1 Revision schedule
- The data that are presented at the press conference of the Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection are final.
1.2.4 Advance notice of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques.
- In case of major changes in the methodology, notice is given on the AMS´s Internet site (http://www.ams.at).
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| Quality |
Dissemination of
documentation on methodology
and sources used in preparing
statistics | 5.2.1 Dissemination of documentation on concepts, scope, classifications, basis of recording, data sources, and statistical techniques
- Informations on data sources and definitions can be found on the AMS's Internet site (http://www.ams.or.at).
(See also summary methodology)
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Dissemination of component
detail, reconciliations with
related data, and statistical
frameworks that support
statistical cross-checks
and provide assurance of
reasonableness | 4.2.1 Internal consistency
- Detailed data on unemployment by sex, region, age, occupation, and economic classification can be found on the AMS's Internet site (http://www.ams.at) - in German. For certain aggregates, timeseries of 13 months are disseminated.
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