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

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Employment6 Private Sector2 Public Sector Estimated Private Sector including major reclassifications3, 4, 6 Estimated Public Sector excluding major reclassifications3, 5, 6
Level Level Percentage of total employment Level Percentage of total employment Level Percentage of total employment Level Percentage of total employment
Q1 1999 2,228,000 1,682,800 75.5% 545,500 24.5% 1,701,200 76.3% 527,100 23.7%
Q1 2009r 2,513,000 1,866,200 74.3% 646,900 25.7% 1,927,400 76.7% 585,800 23.3%
Q1 2010r 2,415,000 1,779,000 73.7% 635,700 26.3% 1,837,100 76.1% 577,600 23.9%
Q1 2011r 2,487,000 1,873,400 75.3% 613,600 24.7% 1,927,100 77.5% 559,900 22.5%
Q1 2012r 2,466,000 1,874,700 76.0% 591,600 24.0% 1,924,800 78.0% 541,500 22.0%
Q1 2013r 2,521,000 1,937,100 76.8% 584,200 23.2% 1,985,100 78.7% 536,200 21.3%
Q1 2014r 2,556,000 2,008,500 78.6% 547,800 21.4% 2,022,800 79.1% 533,600 20.9%
Q1 2015 2,615,000 2,067,900 79.1% 546,800 20.9% 2,081,500 79.6% 533,300 20.4%
Change on year to:
Q1 2015 58,400 59,400 0.5 p.p. -1,000 -0.5 p.p. 58,700 0.5 p.p. -300 -0.5 p.p.
% change on year:
Q1 2015 2.3% 3.0% -0.2% 2.9% -0.1%

p.p. - percentage points

r - Revision due to methodological improvements

Notes:

1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred, unless otherwise stated.

2. Private 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 individual organisation statistical returns).

3. Major reclassifications include: Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Lloyds Banking Group plc, Northern Rock plc, Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance, Lloyds Bank Asset Finance, Scottish Widows, Direct Line, Royal Mail Group plc, Post Office Ltd and Network Rail.

4. Private sector including major reclassifications includes the figures for the above organisations in the private sector series when they were part of the public sector.

5. Public sector excluding major reclassifications excludes the figures for the above organisations from the public sector series when they were part of the public sector.

6. Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand.

7. 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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