NAME OF VARIABLE
4. The name of the variable is 'Duration of Unemployment'.
DEFINITION OF VARIABLE
Nominal definition
5. 'Duration of Unemployment' is defined as the elapsed period to the end of the reference week since the time a person began looking for work, or since a person last worked for two weeks or more, whichever is the shorter. Long term unemployment refers to persons unemployed for a period of 52 weeks or more.
6. The measure is of current (and continuing) periods of unemployment rather than completed spells.
7. For persons currently unemployed who may have begun looking for work while still employed, the duration of unemployment is defined as the period from the time the person last worked for two weeks or more to the end of the reference week.
8. 'Duration of Unemployment' is an attribute of the counting unit 'person'.
Operational definition
9. 'Duration of Unemployment' is measured in completed weeks and is calculated according to the following rules:
10. After a person has been identified as Unemployed the duration of unemployment is calculated by:
- Obtaining the date the person began looking for work and calculating the number of weeks between that date and the end of the reference week.
- Obtaining the date the person last worked for two weeks or more in the last 2 years and calculating the number of weeks between that date and the end of the reference week.
- Comparing the time periods and taking the shortest of the two as the 'Duration of Unemployment'
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