National Statistics Publication - Public Sector Employment in Scotland - Q2 2013

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 1: Number of people employed by public and private sector; Scotland, Headcount

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Employment Private Sector Public Sector Private Sector Public Sector
Including public sector financial institutions Excluding public sector financial institutions
Level Level Percentage of total employment Level Percentage of total employment Level Percentage of total employment Level Percentage of total employment
Q2 1999 2,245,000 1,699,100 75.7% 545,600 24.3% 1,699,100 75.7% 545,600 24.3%
Q2 2007 2,553,000 1,956,200 76.6% 596,400 23.4% 1,956,200 76.6% 596,400 23.4%
Q2 2008 2,536,000 1,939,200 76.5% 596,900 23.5% 1,939,200 76.5% 596,900 23.5%
Q2 2009 2,480,000 1,843,800 74.3% 636,600 25.7% 1,882,400 75.9% 598,000 24.1%
Q2 2010 2,448,000 1,820,200 74.4% 627,300 25.6% 1,855,600 75.8% 592,000 24.2%
Q2 2011 2,489,000 1,886,400 75.8% 602,100 24.2% 1,918,900 77.1% 569,600 22.9%
Q2 2012 2,465,000 1,880,300 76.3% 584,500 23.7% 1,910,000 77.5% 554,800 22.5%
Q2 2013 2,520,000 1,941,700 77.0% 578,600 23.0% 1,971,000 78.2% 549,300 21.8%
Change on year to:
Q2 2013 55,500 61,400 -6,000 61,000 -5,500
% change on year:
Q2 2013 2.3% 3.3% -1.0% 3.2% -1.0%

Notes:

1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred. Total employment has been rounded to the nearest thousand. 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, HBOS/Lloyds Banking Group plc (both classified to the public sector from Q4 2008) Lloyds TSB Commercial Banking. Those organisations classified as Public Sector Financial Institutions and SIC 64.

3. Public sector is derived as the difference between the Labour Force Survey 'Total employment' workforce based estimate for the whole of Scotland (not seasonally adjusted) and the public sector estimate (derived from indivdual organisation statistical returns). For Q1 the Feb-Apr 2013 rolling estimate from the LFS was used.

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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