Indicator history

Statistics on ethnic origin of people, who are registered as unemployed, are not collected. They were last collected in 2002 at the population census (according to this census, the unemployment of Roma was 72,3 %, while the assessment is that only 2 % of Roma in Slovenia is employed). The population census which is underway currently, will only include data from existing state registries which do not include the information on ethnic origin of people who are registered as unemployed.

The data are segregated only by the country of birth and citizenship which only provides an answer on the number of migrant workers among the unemployed but not on the number of members of minority groups who are already have citizenship and cannot be considered migrants anymore, even though they have been born in another state. According to the Eurostat report, the data from 2009 show a higher unemployment rate of people born in non-EU countries (8%) comparing to unemployment rate of the general population (6 %). Among these, the unemployment rate of female workers born in third countries is lower (7 %) than male (8%). The Eurostat report notes, however, that some of these data are unreliable due to a small sample. 

A short report issued by the Statistical Office on the International Migrants Day states that on January 1, 2010 the rates of unemployment of people registered as unemployed was the same (10,5 %) regardless if they were born in Slovenia or in another country. Compared to 1 January 2009, among foreign-born labour force the share of registered unemployed persons went up by almost 3 percentage points and among labour force born in Slovenia by 3.3 percentage points. At the beginning of 2010 among registered unemployed persons born in Slovenia 66.4% were unemployed less than a year, while among foreign-born registered unemployed person the share was 61%, the report states.

According to the 2003 report of the Institute for Ethnic Studies, the unemployment among minorities is higher than within the general population and amounts to 8,5 % with Croatians and 11 % with Muslims.

Source:

Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, http://www.stat.si/popis2011/Faq.aspx

Indicators on Immigrant Integration, A Pilot Survey, Eurostat, 2011, http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-RA-11-009/EN/KS-RA-11-009-EN.PDF

Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, International Migrants Day 2011, Special release, December 15, 2011, http://www.stat.si/eng/novica_prikazi.aspx?id=4415

Albanci, Bošnjaki, Črnogorci, Hrvati, Makedonci in Srbi v Republiki Sloveniji (Albanians, Bosniaks, Montenegrins, Croatians, Macedonians and Serbs in the Republic of Slovenia), Institute for Ethnic Studies, 2003, available at http://www.inv.si/DocDir/Publikacije-PDF/Raziskovalna%20porocila/Raziskava_Polozaj_in_status_pripadnikov_narodov_nekdanje_Jugoslavije_v_RS.pdf