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The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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Meh blog post. Here's the interactive chart at Eurostat: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/RCI/#?vis=nuts2.labourmar...

Curious how they are using colourisation in the opposite way. They have the low levels of unemployment as orange with the darker shades as the lowest and use blue for higher levels of unemployment, again the darker shades to indicate the highest employment. So the concerning area's show as blue and the ok area's show as panic inducing Orange instinctively. Most odd.

I think you’ve got that back to front!

Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it makes regions with total different population densities appear on the same level It shows unemployment RATES, so population density does not matter.

It does matter. Consider of a hypothetical country consisting of two equally large regions. One region is desert, only 10,000 people live there and unemployment rate is 20%. In the other region there are 1M people and the employment rate is 3%. Now if you look at the map, it seems that the country is doing pretty poorly. Half of the country has a bad employment rate. Whereas in reality it only affect a small portion…

Does that apply to the european regions listed here? How significant are the differences in population density that they make a tangible difference?

Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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> where the unemployment rate is below 5.8%, a level generally considered to indicate a healthy labor market 5.8% is a the cut-off for a healthy labour market, apparently. Meanwhile https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-s-unemployment... describes London's unemployment rate reaching 5.8% as a record low!

The two things aren’t mutually exclusive, and in any case you’re probably not comparing figures that are calculated in the same way.

Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does, as the regions with different population sizes should have different overall importance.

No, why should a person living in place A have a different expectance of employment than a person in place B?

Because, reality.

Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious how they are using colourisation in the opposite way. They have the low levels of unemployment as orange with the darker shades as the lowest and use blue for higher levels of unemployment, again the darker shades to indicate the highest employment. So the concerning area's show as blue and the ok area's show as panic inducing Orange instinctively. Most odd.

I think you’ve got that back to front!

In the original.

Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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I wonder how many plausible alternative captions we can come up with for this map? A few takes: * Corruption level (blue is less) * Income per capita (blue is more) * Education level (blue is better) * Price of a beer (blue is more) * etc

Just overlay a map of median temperatures and you'll have some interesting insight.

Re: The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

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I wonder how many plausible alternative captions we can come up with for this map? A few takes: * Corruption level (blue is less) * Income per capita (blue is more) * Education level (blue is better) * Price of a beer (blue is more) * etc

Education?. Really?.

"Regarding Europe’s other large countries, the proportions were 47.1% for Britain, 31.9% in Germany (which retains a strong tradition of technical education), 43.6% in France, 40.1% in Spain and 39.1% in Poland."

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=2013041...

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