Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 4th Quarter 2012

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). 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 5: Total reserved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Headcount

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Reserved
Public Sector
Civil Service Public Bodies Armed Forces Public
Corporations
Public Sector
Financial
Institutions
Q4 1999 76,700 33,800 6,000 15,100 21,900
Q4 2006 76,500 35,500 7,000 12,800 21,200
Q4 2007 72,500 33,200 7,100 12,200 20,000
Q4 2008 120,100 32,900 8,000 12,000 24,600
Q4 2009 112,300 33,600 7,100 11,900 24,100 35,700
Q4 2010 106,200 31,000 7,400 12,300 22,100 33,500
Q4 2011 101,000 30,500 6,900 11,600 20,500 31,400
Q4 2012 95,200 29,000 6,800 10,900 19,900 28,700
Change on year to:
Q4 2012 -5,700 -1,500 -100 -700 -600 -2,700
% change on year:
Q4 2012 -5.7% -5.0% -2.0% -6.4% -3.0% -8.7%

Notes:
1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred. Percentages are based on unrounded figures.

2. Public sector financial institutions include Northern Rock (classified to the public sector from Q4 2007), Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, HMOS/Lloyds Banking Group plc (both classified to the public sector from Q4 2008) Lloyds TSB Commercial Banking. Those organisation classified as Public Sector Financial Institutions and SIC 64.

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

4. 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.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Labour-Market/PublicSectorEmployment

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