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Publication - Statistics

Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 1st Quarter 2012

Published
20 June 2012
ISBN
9781780458588

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).

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Table 2: Public sector employment by National Accounts Sector Classification; Scotland, Headcount

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Public Sector National Accounts Central Government Category Local Government Public Corporations Public Sector
Financial Institutions
Civil Service Other Public Bodies NHS Armed Forces Further Education Colleges Total Central Government
Q1 1999 545,100 48,300 13,500 129,000 14,800 15,700 221,200 293,900 30,000
Q1 2006 602,400 52,400 18,300 147,500 13,500 16,600 248,400 325,200 28,800
Q1 2007 597,800 50,900 18,200 151,900 12,600 16,700 250,300 320,700 26,800
Q1 2008 595,000 49,500 21,200 154,300 12,000 16,900 253,900 316,000 25,200
Q1 2009 641,400 50,300 21,500 158,200 12,000 16,900 259,000 314,100 24,600 43,600
Q1 2010 624,900 50,600 20,700 160,800 12,100 16,000 260,200 304,300 24,100 36,300
Q1 2011 612,400 *55,500 19,700 156,900 12,100 16,500 260,700 294,200 22,900 34,600
Q1 2012 584,800 46,400 18,900 154,400 11,200 15,200 246,100 284,300 21,900 32,500
Change on year to:
Q1 2012 -27,600 -9,100 -800 -2,500 -900 -1,200 -14,600 -10,000 -1,000 -2,100
% change on year:
Q1 2012 -4.5% -16.4% -4.1% -1.6% -7.4% -7.6% -5.6% -3.4% -4.3% -6.1%

Notes:

1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.

2. Public sector financial institutions include Northern Rock (classified to the public sector from Q4 2007), Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc and Lloyds Banking Group plc (both classified to the public sector from Q4 2008).

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

4. 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.

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).

* Estimates for Q1 2011 include 6,700 temporary staff recruited to carry out the 2011 census

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

Contact

Email: Gayle Mackie

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