The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe

Post by ProblemFactory » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:13 PM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #17

yiyus wrote: post #9

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> 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…

Post by DanBC » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:17 PM UTC

crispyporkbites wrote: post #35

draugadrotten wrote: post #20

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The definition of "unemployment" is important here. it An unemployed person is defined by Eurostat, according to the guidelines of the International Labour Organization, as: > someone aged 15 to 74 (in Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Norway: 16 to 74 years); > without work during the reference week; > available to start work within the next two weeks (or has already found a job to start within the next thr…

No - to be on the dole you need to be actively searching for a job in most jurisdictions in Europe. E.g. in the UK you need to go down to the job center every week and prove you're searching for a job in order to claim unemployment benefit. It's literally called jobseeker's allowance to reflect that. Also what is a "government job market program"? Are you referring to a government employing people en masse to inflate…

Post by tom_mellior » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:18 PM UTC

draugadrotten wrote: post #20

Luc wrote: post #2

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

The definition of "unemployment" is important here. it An unemployed person is defined by Eurostat, according to the guidelines of the International Labour Organization, as: > someone aged 15 to 74 (in Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Norway: 16 to 74 years); > without work during the reference week; > available to start work within the next two weeks (or has already found a job to start within the next thr…

Post by Zenst » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:19 PM UTC

matthewmacleod wrote: post #24

Zenst wrote: post #16

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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!

Post by avar » Thu, May 03, 2018, 12:21 PM UTC

ProblemFactory wrote: post #33

ekianjo wrote: post #4

I really dislike this kind of visualization since it makes regions with total different population densities appear on the same level. besides, the definition of who is actually unemployed varies greatly throughout Europe since governments have been hacking such statuses to make figures look better than they are.

> I really dislike this kind of visualization since it makes regions with total different population densities appear on the same level. This visualization is using European NUTS-2 regions, which have roughly equal population. Each region is between 800k and 3 million people. While perfect scaling is not practically possible, it is much better than geographical regions.