Notes and methodological comments
(Unemployment in Europe, 1993 - 2004)
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| This interactive element deals with unemployment figures for 29 European countries, 3 European country sets (EU-25, EU-15, Euro zone) as well as for Japan and the United States (both included for benchmarking purposes). The annual data presented here are derived from the quarterly European Labour Force Survey. The data referring to country sets are unweighted averages. |
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| Unemployment rates represent unemployed persons as a percentage of the total number of people employed and unemployed (labour force). Unemployed persons comprise persons aged 15 to 64 who were without work and currently available for work and who are actively seeking work. |
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| Names and abbreviations for the countries and country sets |
| EU Member States |
| Belgium |
BE |
| Czech Republic |
CZ |
| Denmark |
DK |
| Germany |
DE |
| Estonia |
EE |
| Greece |
EL |
| Spain |
ES |
| France |
FR |
| Ireland |
IE |
| Italy |
IT |
| Cyprus |
CY |
| Latvia |
LV |
| Lithuania |
LT |
| Luxembourg |
LU |
| Hungary |
HU |
| Malta |
MT |
| Netherlands |
NL |
| Austria |
AT |
| Poland |
PL |
| Portugal |
PT |
| Slovenia |
SI |
| Slovak Republic |
SK |
| Finland |
FI |
| Sweden |
SE |
| United Kingdom |
UK |
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| Sets of EU Member States |
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| Candidate countries |
| Bulgaria |
BG |
| Romania |
RO |
| Turkey |
TR |
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| EFTA countries |
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| Non-european countries |
| United States |
US |
| Japan |
JP |
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| Visualisation of unemployment data over time and for fixed years |
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| The unemployment figures are visualised in the form of time series graphs covering the period 1993 - 2004. Three graphs are displayed simultaneously. These are either the graphs for three user-selected countries or country sets without any breakdown by sex or for only one country or country set with a breakdown by sex. |
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| In addition, the relative age class sizes for "young" or "old" people are compared over time by means of boxplots. A boxplot aggregates the information contained in a given data set by displaying only five characteristics of the set. It is defined by a box of length x0.75 - x0.25 (interquartile range), the median x0.5 (marked inside the box) and the two extreme values xmin and xmax of the data set. The latter are connected with the box via two lines. |
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| In addition, one could also compare the unemployment data for a user-selected year by using bar charts. A bar chart is a graphical tool which represents each element xi of the data set by means of a bar of length xi (i = 1, 2, .. ,n). |
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| Another graphical approach applied here is a data presentation for the period 1993 - 2004 based on boxplots. A boxplot aggregates the information contained in a given data set by displaying only five characteristics of the set. It is defined by a box of length x0.75 - x0.25 (interquartile range), the median x0.5 (marked inside the box) and the two extreme values xmin and xmax of the data set. The latter are connected with the box via two lines. |
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