| Welfare regime | Country | 2002 | 2004 | 2002 and 2004 combined | ||||||
| Response rate (%) | Included in analysis | Response rate (%) | Included in analysis | Total | Unemployed in ESS (OECD rates 2003) | |||||
| Men | Women | Men | Women | Men* | Women* | |||||
| Denmark | 67.7 | 439 | 398 | 64.3 | 393 | 395 | 1625 | 6.7 (5.1) | 7.2 (5.7) | |
| Scandinavian | Finland | 73.2 | 533 | 486 | 70.7 | 515 | 518 | 2052 | 7.9 (9.2) | 8.4 (8.9) |
| Norway | 65.0 | 690 | 479 | 66.2 | 545 | 441 | 2155 | 4.5 (4.8) | 3.7 (3.9) | |
| Sweden | 69.5 | 601 | 487 | 65.9 | 560 | 488 | 2136 | 4.7 (6.3) | 6.7 (5.2) | |
| Austria | 60.4 | 583 | 586 | 62.4 | 491 | 485 | 2145 | 5.9 (4.3) | 3.7 (4.1) | |
| Bismarckian | Belgium | 59.2 | 497 | 349 | 61.2 | 460 | 371 | 1677 | 6.2 (7.4) | 11.3 (8.0) |
| France | 43.1 | 346 | 339 | 43.6 | 443 | 476 | 1604 | 4.7 (8.8) | 11.2 (11.0) | |
| Germany | 55.7 | 772 | 602 | 51.0 | 704 | 584 | 2662 | 12.3 (9.6) | 11.7 (8.8) | |
| Luxembourg | 43.9 | 349 | 239 | 50.1 | 519 | 326 | 1434 | 2.4 (3.0) | 3.7 (4.7) | |
| Netherlands | 67.9 | 574 | 437 | 65.1 | 465 | 390 | 1866 | 3.3 (4.1) | 3.9 (4.5) | |
| Switzerland | 33.5 | 550 | 395 | 48.6 | 582 | 452 | 1979 | 2.6 (3.8) | 2.7 (4.5) | |
| Ireland | 64.5 | 514 | 393 | 59.7 | 461 | 436 | 1805 | 5.3 (4.8) | 4.8 (3.9) | |
| Anglo-Saxon | UK | 55.5 | 530 | 447 | 54.6 | 475 | 396 | 1848 | 6.3 (5.5) | 4.5 (4.1) |
| Greece | 80.0 | 580 | 433 | 78.8 | 541 | 427 | 1980 | 8.1 (6.0) | 14.2 (14.3) | |
| Southern Europe | Italy | 43.7 | 307 | 276 | 59.3 | 398 | 283 | 1265 | 7.9 (6.7) | 15.9 (11.6) |
| Portugal | 68.8 | 335 | 340 | 71.2 | 399 | 438 | 1512 | 5.3 (5.6) | 11.8 (7.3) | |
| Spain | 53.2 | 401 | 302 | 59.7 | 468 | 336 | 1508 | 6.4 (8.2) | 12.9 (15.9) | |
| Czech Republic | 43.3 | 379 | 263 | 55.3 | 739 | 676 | 2057 | 5.3 (6.1) | 10.8 (9.9) | |
| Eastern Europe | Hungary | 69.9 | 403 | 290 | 65.4 | 295 | 362 | 1350 | 7.3 (6.1) | 5.7 (5.6) |
| Poland | 73.2 | 501 | 366 | 73.7 | 423 | 349 | 1638 | 14.4 (19.0) | 16.2 (20.4) | |
| Slovenia | 70.5 | 322 | 280 | 69.7 | 308 | 290 | 1200 | 8.1 (NA) | 11.1 (NA) | |
*Correlation between unstandardised European Social Survey (ESS) rates and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) rates is 0.82 for men and 0.88 for women.
NA, not available.