Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 1st 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 8: Total devolved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Full-time equivalent

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Devolved Public Sector Civil Service Other Public Bodies NHS Further Education Colleges Local Government Public Corporations
Q1 1999 384,100 14,100 7,800 106,000 11,500 235,400 9,200
Q1 2006 433,800 15,900 11,000 124,900 12,200 263,400 6,400
Q1 2007 434,200 15,800 11,100 128,900 12,200 259,500 6,500
Q1 2008 438,500 16,000 14,000 131,200 12,400 258,300 6,600
Q1 2009 441,400 16,400 14,400 134,600 12,300 257,400 6,300
Q1 2010 436,700 16,700 14,400 136,700 11,700 250,900 6,200
Q1 2011 426,000 17,900 13,800 133,300 12,100 243,000 6,000
Q1 2012 412,700 15,700 13,100 131,200 11,000 235,600 6,000
Change on year to:
Q1 2012 -13,300 -2,200 -700 -2,200 -1,100 -7,400 100
% change on year:
Q1 2012 -3.1% -12.1% -4.7% -1.6% -8.9% -3.0% 1.0%

Notes:

1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.

2. Local Government category revised to include Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) following a review by the National Accounts Classifications Team at ONS.

3. A number of local government staff have transferred to arms length organisations which are part of the private sector under National Accounts definitions. For example, staff transferrred from Glasgow City Council to Cordia Limited Liability Partnership from 1 April 2009 thus explaining the decrease in local government employment between 2008 and 2009.

4. Staff from Local Authority District Courts and Police Authorities have transferred into the Devolved Civil Service since 2007.

5. Information for further education colleges in Scotland is based on actual information from Q4 2010. The method used to create the back series is detailed in the background notes of this publication.

6. From Q4 2011, NHS has responsibility for employing Healthcare staff within prisons. Previously, these people were employed directly by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS).

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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