In this change, 16 individual NUTS 2 areas have been combined into seven aggregates (for concordance, see related article).  Reporting for area France métropolitaine (France excluding Overseas Territories, IFRA_XDOM) has also been terminated.

In response, we have archived the predecessors (individual areas, 2001Q4 to 2015Q1) by marking the metadata as "discontinued." Otherwise, dataset properties are unchanged (see related article).

The active series reside in the historical catalog (France » Labor and Wages » Employment » By Industry » Quarterly) and include, for example:

• LWQEMTE2AQ.IFRA_AR      = Employment: All activities - for Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes [NUTS 2 aggregate]
• LWQEMIDE2AQ.IFRA_ND     = Industry - for Normandie
• LWQEMCNE2AQ.IFRA_PL     = Construction - Pays de la Loire
• LWQEMMMSXE2AQ.IFRA_XDOM = Market good and services - France Metropolitaine

The predecessors include, for example:

• LWEMTEAQ.IFRA_AL    = [DISCONTINUED] Employment: All activities - for NUTS 2 Alsace
• LWEMMMEAQ.IFRA_CA   = [DISCONTINUED] Industry - for Champagne-Ardenne
• LWEMCNEAQ.IFRA_LO   = [DISCONTINUED] Construction - for Lorraine
• LWEMTMEAQ.IFRA_XDOM = [DISCONTINUED] Services - for France Metropolitaine

Because catalog locations are subject to change, the upper-right search box on DataBuffet.com provides a "find in catalog" mode that accepts a mnemonic.