Public Sector Employment in Scotland - Statistics for 1st Quarter 2015

The statistics in this release are based on administrative records and surveys of individual public sector bodies carried out by the Scottish Government and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is a snapshot of employment as at March 2015. The publication includes information on public sector employment in Scotland with distinctions made for employment in devolved bodies and reserved bodies (located in Scotland).


Table 9: Total reserved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Full-time equivalent

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Reserved Public Sector Civil Service Public Bodies Armed Forces Public Corporations2 Public Sector Financial Institutions2 Public Corporations & Public Sector Financial Institutions2,3
Q1 1999 71,200 32,100 5,300 14,800 19,100 - 19,100
Q1 2009r 110,000 30,600 10,500 12,000 21,000 - 56,900
Q1 2010r 106,700 30,500 9,500 12,100 20,700 33,900 54,600
Q1 2011r 100,300 29,000 9,800 12,100 18,800 30,600 49,400
Q1 2012r 93,200 27,100 9,600 11,200 17,600 27,800 45,400
Q1 2013r 89,700 25,800 9,300 11,100 16,500 27,000 43,500
Q1 2014 56,400 24,100 9,100 10,600 * * 12,600
Q1 2015 53,300 23,000 9,100 9,500 * * 11,800
Change on year to:
Q1 2015 -3,000 -1,200 0 -1,100 n/a n/a -800
% change on year:
Q1 2015 -5.4% -4.8% 0.2% -10.8% n/a n/a -6.0%

r - Revision due to methodological improvements

Notes:

1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred. Percentages are based on unrounded figures. "-" denotes blank entries and "*" denotes entries that have been suppressed for disclosure reasons.

2. Due to the recent reclassification of Lloyds Banking Group plc from public sector financial institutions to the private sector, a new category has been created combining public corporations with public sector financial institutions to ensure employment figures are not disclosed. Both categories have been merged to produce a backseries prior to the reclassification to allow for calculation of year on year changes.

3. Employment over the year in public corporations & public sector financial institutions has been largely affected by the reclassification of Lloyds Banking Group plc. (and subsidiaries), as well as Royal Mail plc. and Direct Line Group plc.

4. Where the change on the year is less than 50 this rounds to '0'.

5. Detailed tables showing a full time series of data - all quarters back to Q1 1999 - are available to download from the Public Sector Employment Websection: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Labour-Market/PublicSectorEmployment

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