Motivation: In its labor force survey, the source reports employment and unemployment localized by the outdated NUTS 2010 geography classification.

Response: For international consistency, Moody's Analytics estimates all four labor force status indicators (labor force, employment, unemployment and unemployment rate), for all NUTS level 1 and 2 areas in Greece, using the active NUTS 2013 classification.

Properties:

• Measurement: Thousands of individuals (Ths. #) or percent (%)
• Adjustment: Seasonally adjusted (SA)
• Frequency: Quarterly
• Start date: 1998Q1
• Geo vintage: NUTS 2013
• Geo coverage: All four NUTS 1 areas and all 13 NUTS 2 areas

The estimates reside in the catalog (Greece » Labor and Wages » Labor force survey » by Status) and include, for example:

• RLBRQ.IGRC_NORT = Unemployment rate, (%, SA) - for NUTS 1 Northern Greece
• RLBEQ.IGRC_KM   = Employed, (Ths. #, SA) - for NUTS 2 Central Macedonia
• RLBUQ.IGRC_CENT = Unemployed, (Ths. #, SA) - for NUTS 1 Central Greece

Method: Please see the background documentation in Mnemonic 411.