Beneficiaries of unemployment insurance

Unemployment benefits are paid to jobseekers in the long term. Jobseekers have until the end of the update (15th day of month M+ 1) to declare their situation on month M. If the job seeker meets the conditions, the payment for month M is made after the job seeker has updated his situation for month M and, at the earliest, on the 1st working day of month M+ 1. In addition, a number of information (admission decisions, reduced activity, sickness, training, etc.), which have consequences for the payment of an unemployment benefit, may not be known at the time when the job seeker updates his situation for month M due to the deadlines for producing and submitting supporting documents. The number of jobseekers compensated at the end of a given month is therefore known exhaustively only with a certain period of time. For this reason, the number of recipients at the end of the month is considered definitive when it is established with 6 months of decline for that month. **Production of monthly data** However, the final number of awardees compensated for month M can be correctly estimated from the number of recipients actually paid, before the discount closure in M+ 1. The data processing times lead to the availability of this data at the end of month M+ 2. This estimate is obtained by weighting the observed number of allocates by a passing coefficient corresponding to the gain of information between 1 and 6 months of decline. These coefficients are calculated once a year at the beginning of the year, for the publication of the data for the month of January. They are established for each type of allocation (ARE, AREF, ASS, CSP, RFF, RFPE) on the basis of data from the previous year drawn up with different setbacks. The data thus estimated with a month of decline have a provisional status. Each month, at the end of month M, two statistics are published: — an estimate by detailed allowances of the number of persons compensated at the end of the month M-2 (provisional data); — the number of persons compensated at the end of the month M-7, by detailed allowances (so-called ‘definitive’ data). The data are therefore made definitive monthly with a decline of 6 months. The number of staff is calculated from the FNA (National Recipient File). Published data are seasonally adjusted. CVS coefficients are re-estimated once a year, at the beginning of the year, by major type of allocation (ARE, AREF, Solidarity, RSP, CSP) and for metropolitan France and France as a whole. Compared to old estimation methods, this is characterised by: — the removal of the estimate without regression; the information published each month M henceforth covers the number of jobseekers compensated by Pôle emploi at the end of the month M-2 (and no longer at the end of months M-1); — the definitive status with 6 months of decline (and no longer 9 months as before); — the final status is published in flux, as soon as the data with 6 months of decline are known (and not once a year in year A-2). **The FNA** The FNA is a historical database of relational data consisting of elements related to compensation and the various aid granted to jobseekers. It allows longitudinal analyses by tracking cohorts of individuals, compiling descriptive statistics, forecasting, and performing simulations in impact studies related to regulatory or operational changes. The FNA is a major source of information for various statistical productions (summary notes, DRE, rates & salaries, surveys...). This statistical database records the history of all persons registered as jobseekers and all beneficiaries of an allowance paid or aid granted by the Employment Centre (formerly Assédic/Anpe) since 1993. All periods of compensation shall be retained for each recipient or beneficiary of aid. The file contains the individual information on the beneficiaries, the constituent elements of the rights available to the various compensation schemes and/or the aid granted, the data on the last job lost and the characteristics of the training taken. The results for the periods compensated for month M are thus known, at the latest, at the end of month M+ 1. However, a certain setback is needed in order to know, in a comprehensive way, the compensated population at any given time. Indeed, every month, the file continues to grow rich over past periods. It takes a setback of about six months to achieve completeness due to delays in file processing or late filing of grant applications. The FNA is fed monthly from operational applications. An individual is present in the FNA if he or she is a job seeker registered with Pôleemploi or if he receives or has received an allowance or assistance.