Using statistical methods for analysing regional differences of labour market

The objective of present descriptive, exploring analysis, was to demonstrate and illustrate regional (NUTS II) and county (NUTS III) level differences based on three dominant labour market indicators. Accordingly, we pursued a statistical analysis on the 2004 and 2008 labour market indicators (basic data) of the 7 statistical regions, and the 19 counties of Hungary. These indicators are: unemployment rate, employment rate, rate of economically active population. The comparison is made based on two years descriptive statistical data using various types of methods with taking into consideration the changes of the three main indicators of the labour market. By means of special scatter plots, we characterised and illustrated the relative changes of the regions by correlating them with each other, namely the more and more strong separation of the main groups, so as the increase of their homogeneity within groups