State Statistical Office

Wages Department

"Dame Gruev" No.4

1000 Skopje

Republic of North Macedonia

Job vacancy statistics (JVS) provide information on the level and structure of labour demand. The country transmits to Eurostat the quarterly data on the number of job vacancies and the number of occupied posts as well as provides the quality report under the JVS framework regulation and the two implementing regulations: the implementing regulation on the definition of a job vacancy, the reference dates for data collection, data transmission specifications and feasibility studies, as well as the implementing regulation on seasonal adjustment procedures and quality reports.

The goal of the Job Vacancy Survey, as part of the labour market surveys, is to obtain information about job vacancies in the enterprises in the country, which are important for monitoring the macroeconomic trends and policies in the labour market. The job vacancy rate and the unemployment rate will be used for evaluation, improvement and understanding of the overall employment situation in the country. Data on job vacancies processed according to economic activity and enterprise size will be used for analyses of the level and structure of the labour market demand.

For collecting data in the Job Vacancy Survey the following classifications are used:
-National Classification of Economic Activities NACE Rev.2, adopted as a national standard by Decision of the Government of RM (Official Gazette No.147/08) and the Law on Single Window System and Management of the Trade Register and Register of Other Legal Entities (Official Gazette No. 84/05), which complies with the European classification of activities and NACE Rev.2
-National Classification of Occupations, adopted as a national standard by Decision of the Government of RM in 2015 ("Official Gazette" No.178 from 2015), which complies with the International Standard Classification of Occupations ISCO-08.

All economic activities defined by NACE Rev. 2, except agriculture, forestry and fishing activities (optional in the JVS framework regulation), and the activities of households as employers and the activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies.

A 'job vacancy' is defined as a paid post that is newly created, unoccupied, or about to become vacant:

(a) for which the employer is taking active steps and is prepared to take further steps to find a suitable candidate from outside the enterprise concerned; and

(b) which the employer intends to fill either immediately or within a specific period of time.

‘Active steps to find a suitable candidate’ include:

- notifying the job vacancy to the public employment services,

- contacting a private employment agency/head hunters,

- advertising the vacancy in the media (for example internet, newspapers, magazines),

- advertising the vacancy on a public notice board,

- approaching, interviewing or selecting possible candidates/potential recruits directly,

- approaching employees and/or personal contacts,

- using internships.

'Specific period of time’ refers to the maximum time the vacancy is open and intended to be filled. That period shall be unlimited; all vacancies for which active steps are continuing on the reference date shall be reported.

An 'occupied post’ means a paid post within the organisation to which an employee has been assigned.

Enterprise

Enterprises with three and more employees

The whole territory of the country

Data are available and published quarterly since 2012.

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Data are validated in the subject-matter department. In order to improve the quality of the data, additional plausibility checks are applied during the processing of the data.

Due to the lack of long time series, it is not possible to apply the methods for seasonal adjustment.

See the document on quality policy: http://www.stat.gov.mk/pdf/Politika_za_kvalitet_en.pdf

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See 6.2.1.

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Testing of the questionnaire is done in E-Stat system each year.

Logical controls are built into the application, and during the data processing additional validation rules are performed.

The notifications to the business entity is sent by E-Stat system on specific dates.

See 6.3.3.1.

No item non-response

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See document: http://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx?id=25

So far there have been no revisions of any data and the indicator for average size of revisions is not available.

See below.

Data are published 60 days after the end of the reference quarter (T+60)

Data are published in full accordance with the time limits of the release calendar

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The news releases on job vacancies are published for each quarter within a specified time and are available on our website: https://www.stat.gov.mk/pdf/2022/2.1.22.20_mk.pdf

See the document:PxWeb - Select table (stat.gov.mk)

Links to the data tables with JVS:

Occupied posts and job vacancies by sectors of activities, NKD Rev.2, quarterly. PxWeb (stat.gov.mk)

Occupied posts and job vacancies by size of the enterprise, quarterly. PxWeb (stat.gov.mk)

Job vacancies by occupations, quarterly. PxWeb (stat.gov.mk)

Occupied posts and job vacancies by regions, quarterly. PxWeb (stat.gov.mk)

Access to micro data for research purposes can be obtained by completing and sending a request to the SSO, which is available on the website: http://www.stat.gov.mk/ZaNas_en.aspx?id=22

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The methodological explanations are available on the website of the State Statistical Office at the following link: http://www.stat.gov.mk/MetodoloskiObjasSoop_en.aspx?id=112&rbrObl=14

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Collected data represent individual statistical data and they are protected by the Law on State Statistics (Official Gazette No. 54/97, 21/07, 51/11, 104/13, 42/14, 192/15, 27/16, 83/18, 220/18 and 31/20), which imposes an obligation to protect data in the phase of collection, processing, data storage and destruction within the prescribed time limits.