BA-X
The BA-X is the monthly job index of the Federal Employment Agency . This is intended to map the development of positions known to the BA on the primary labor market and serve as an indicator for the demand for labor.
history
The Federal Employment Agency (BA) has designed a new job barometer that will be published monthly from January 2007. The BA-X has been developed since mid-2006 by a team of labor market reporting experts from the Federal Employment Agency. The BA-X always appears on the day before the monthly press conference. It is a current job index in Germany that is not based on surveys or assessments, but on specific job applications from companies.
methodology
The BA-known positions with their four components of the primary labor market form the basis for the BA-X. First job market means that the unsubsidized registered positions, the additional positions of the job exchange and the job robot as well as the positions from private employment agencies, as well as for freelancers and self-employed are included in the index. The funded positions reported to the BA are not included.
All components for calculating the positions known to BA have only been fully available since 2004. Therefore, the BA-X starts with an index level of 100 for the annual average of 2004.
To calculate the index, the BA-known positions in the primary labor market are seasonally adjusted by the Institute for Labor Market and Occupational Research . In a second step, the deviations from the annual average 2004, which was normalized to 100, are calculated. Since the seasonally adjusted values are recalculated on a monthly basis and the time series is thus recreated, there may be fluctuations in the individual BA-X monthly versions.
Statistical basis
The BA-known positions
The jobs known to the BA are made up of four sub-components: jobs reported to the BA, other jobs reported to the BA from private employment agencies as well as for freelancers and self-employed persons, additional jobs on the BA job exchange and additional jobs via the BA job robot . The basis of the concept for calculating the positions known to the BA was provided by the Institute for Employment Research .
When calculating the total of the positions known to the BA, only those positions on the BA job exchange are taken into account that are also recorded and are not yet recorded in the size of positions reported to the BA. Overlaps that arise between the registered positions and the positions of the BA job robot (approx. 8%) are also filtered out by means of a regular random sample.