Registered unemployment rate in Europe (EU-27) - september 2010

Registered unemployment rate in Europe (EU-27) - september 2010. Data from Portal Euro-Indicators on EU Commission website (Eurostat). [epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/ portal/ page/ portal/ euroindicators/ peeis]
"Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, defines unemployed as those persons age 15 to 74 who are not working, have looked for work in the last four weeks, and ready to start work within two weeks, which conform to ILO standards. Both the actual count and rate of unemployment are reported. Statistical data are available by member state, for the European Union as a whole (EU27) as well as for the euro area (EA16). Eurostat also includes a long-term unemployment rate. This is defined as part of the unemployed who have been unemployed for an excess of 1 year.
The main source used is the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS). The EU-LFS collects data on all member states each quarter. For monthly calculations, national surveys or national registers from employment offices are used in conjunction with quarterly EU-LFS data. The exact calculation for individual countries, resulting in harmonized monthly data, depend on the availability of the data." [Unemployment. Wikipedia]
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