Austrian Unemployment Registrations by Demographics and Region

Unemployed persons registered with Austria's Public Employment Service (AMS) are tracked by sex, age, nationality, education, and labor market district. The dataset includes end-of-month stock counts, admissions, and departures. It is published by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze unemployment trends based on end-of-month holdings data.
• Compare admission and departure rates based on demographic characteristics like age and sex.
• Assess regional disparities in unemployment based on labor market district data.
• Model the relationship between education level and unemployment duration based on highest level of completed training.

Strengths

• Data is disaggregated by multiple demographic dimensions including sex, age group, and nationality.
• Includes both stock (holdings) and flow (admissions, departures) metrics for unemployment analysis.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Collection Method

Administrative records from the Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS).

Geography

Austria, by labor market districts (regional AMS offices).