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Categories of job applications established by the Pôle Emploi
Definition
The publication of registered job-seekers number is based to the following statistical categories:
- category A includes jobless jobseekers obliged to actively seek a job ;
- category B includes jobseekers having performed a short-term reduced activity and obliged to actively seek a job (i.e. 78 hours or less in the course of the month );
- category C includes jobseekers having performed a long-term reduced activity and obliged to actively seek a job (i.e. more than 78 hours in the course of the month );
- category D includes jobless jobseekers not obliged to actively seek a job (because of an internship, a training course, an illness, etc) Including the job-seekers in agreement of personalised reclassifying (CRP) and in contract of professional transition ( CTP);
- category E includes employed jobseekers not obliged to actively seek a job (for example: beneficiaries of subsidised contracts).
Until 1995, there were five categories of job applications or applicants, jobseekers were grouped together according to the type of employment sought rather than the type of employment held.
Category 1 recorded immediately-available people seeking a full-time job with an open-ended contract (CDI).
Category 2 recorded immediately-available people seeking a part-time job with an open-ended contract (CDI).
Category 3 recorded immediately-available people seeking a job with a limited term (fixed-term contract, temporary assignment, short-time employment).
Category 4 recorded jobless jobseekers who were not immediately available (in training, on sick leave, on maternity leave).
Category 5 recorded people in employment but seeking another job, and so not immediately available.
From 1995 to the end of 2008, people who had performed a limited or occasional activity of 78 hours or more in the previous month were excluded from categories 1, 2 and 3 to form categories 6, 7 and 8. So there were then eight categories.
