A job vacancy is defined as a newly created, unoccupied, or about to become vacant, post. The job vacancy rate (JVR) measures the proportion of total posts that are vacant expressed as a percentage as follows: JVR = number of job vacancies * 100 / (number of occupied posts + number of job vacancies). Data for France and Italy are available in table jvs_q_nace2.

Measures the total number of vacant posts in industry, construction and services (except activities of households as employers and extra-territorial organisations and bodies), both in absolute numbers and expressed as a job vacancy rate (JVR). JVR = number of job vacancies / (number of occupied posts + number of job vacancies) * 100.