Unemployment data about some European countries in 2011.
Usage
data(unemployment)
Arguments
format
A data.frame with 32 rows and 3 columns.
Details
The source is Eurostat news-release 104/2012 - 4 July 2012.
The 32 European countries are BELGIUM, BULGARIA, CZECHREPUBLIC, DENMARK, GERMANY, ESTONIA, IRELAND, GREECE, SPAIN, FRANCE, ITALY, CYPRUS, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, LUXEMBOURG, HUNGARY, MALTA, NETHERLANDS, AUSTRIA, POLAND, PORTUGAL, ROMANIA, SLOVENIA, SLOVAKIA, FINLAND, SWEDEN, UNITEDKINGDOM, ICELAND, NORWAY, SWITZERLAND, CROATIA, TURKEY.
The 3 variables are: the total unemployment rate, defined as the percentage of unemployed persons aged 15-74 in the economically active population (Variable 1); the youth unemployment rate, defined as the unemployment rate for young people aged between 15 and 24 (Variable 2); the long-term unemployment share, defined as the Percentage of unemployed persons who have been unemployed for 12 months or more (Variable 3).