Small Area Unemployment Statistics System (SAUS)

Detailed description in pdf format (0.9MB)

Closing report of the World Bank financed project (3MB)

The project had the following tasks:

Feasibility study of an analysis system, which can provide monthly statistical estimations of various employment data in the city, county and country level, also giving the reliability of these estimations,
development and testing the analysis methods (the system includes estimation functions for spatial adjustment and the Kálmán filter algorithm for time series adjustment),
developing the computer software and database built on data of the Employment Office and the Central Statistical Office,
deployment of the SAUS software,
operation and maintanance of the SAUS system.

SAUS results for the EU regions of Hungary

Kálmán filter estimation of unemployment in the county level