Scottish Employer Perspectives Survey 2019: research report

Appendix A: Supplementary tables

Table A.1.1: Unweighted base sizes (i.e. number of completed interviews) for all employers, by size and sector (2012, 2014, 2016 and 2019)

	2012	2014	2016	2019
Scotland	2,000	4,015	4,009	2,652
Size
2-4	448	879	1,004	643
5-9	460	984	983	608
10-24	430	930	905	619
25-49	264	586	519	364
50-99	144	308	289	161
100+	254	328	309	257
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	134	293	257	137
Manufacturing	147	202	187	160
Construction	133	263	252	162
Wholesale & Retail	403	825	847	525
Hotels & Restaurants	167	415	448	293
Transport, Storage & Comms	105	217	233	170
Financial Services	28	67	91	91
Business Services	308	613	669	422
Public Admin.	70	124	109	76
Education	106	186	172	134
Health & Social Work	248	543	463	274
Arts & Other Services	151	267	281	208

Table A.2.1: Unweighted base sizes (i.e. number of completed interviews) for all establishments in operation for more than a year

	Unweighted zbase
Scotland	2630
Size
2-4	638
5-9	601
10-24	613
25-49	362
50-99	160
100+	256
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	137
Manufacturing	158
Construction	162
Wholesale & Retail	524
Hotels & Restaurants	282
Transport, Storage & Comms	169
Financial Services	90
Business Services	421
Public Admin.	75
Education	134
Health & Social Work	272
Arts & Other Services	206

Base: all establishments operating for more than a year

Table A.2.2: Unweighted base sizes (i.e. number of completed interviews) for all private sector establishments

	Unweighted base
Scotland	2,070
Size
2-4	545
5-9	504
10-24	481
25-49	274
50-99	112
100+	154
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	135
Manufacturing	158
Construction	161
Wholesale & Retail	498
Hotels & Restaurants	281
Transport, Storage & Comms	152
Financial Services	87
Business Services	382
Public Admin.	4
Education	34
Health & Social Work	90
Arts & Other Services	88

Base: all private sector establishments

Table A.3.1: Unweighted base sizes (i.e. number of completed interviews) for all establishments with vacancies in the past 12 months

	Unweighted base
	2016	2019
Scotland	2,605	1,729
Size
2-4	270	153
5-9	612	351
10-24	697	490
25-49	468	331
50-99	263	152
100+	295	252
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	103	73
Manufacturing	112	113
Construction	143	90
Wholesale & Retail	549	328
Hotels & Restaurants	355	217
Transport, Storage & Comms	143	107
Financial Services	51	42
Business Services	386	246
Public Admin.	86	67
Education	138	111
Health & Social Work	363	215
Arts & Other Services	176	120

Base: all establishments with vacancies in the past 12 months

Table A.3.2: Unweighted base sizes (i.e. number of completed interviews) for all establishments that had recruited in the past 12 months

	Unweighted base
	2016	2019
Scotland	2,470	1,611
Size
2-4	220	127
5-9	573	311
10-24	669	461
25-49	460	319
50-99	258	144
100+	290	249
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	95	68
Manufacturing	102	110
Construction	134	81
Wholesale & Retail	521	303
Hotels & Restaurants	349	209
Transport, Storage & Comms	136	103
Financial Services	46	36
Business Services	364	228
Public Admin.	78	57
Education	134	105
Health & Social Work	348	200
Arts & Other Services	163	111

Base: all establishments that had recruited in the last 12 months

Table A.3.3: Unweighted base sizes (i.e. number of completed interviews) for all establishments that had recruited a young person (aged under 25) in the past 12 months

	Unweighted base
	2016	2019
Scotland	1,738	1,096
Size
2-4	103	52
5-9	342	159
10-24	463	302
25-49	360	243
50-99	213	121
100+	257	219
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	57	48
Manufacturing	74	69
Construction	92	50
Wholesale & Retail	393	206
Hotels & Restaurants	315	176
Transport, Storage & Comms	78	67
Financial Services	30	16
Business Services	230	150
Public Admin.	49	39
Education	91	62
Health & Social Work	226	131
Arts & Other Services	103	82

Base: all establishments that had recruited a young person in the last 12 months

Table A.4.1: Unweighted base sizes (i.e. number of completed interviews) for all establishments that have had placements in the past 12 months

	Unweighted base
Scotland	1,221
Size
2-4	161
5-9	239
10-24	312
25-49	213
50-99	114
100+	182
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	50
Manufacturing	77
Construction	50
Wholesale & Retail	175
Hotels & Restaurants	132
Transport, Storage & Comms	71
Financial Services	28
Business Services	199
Public Admin.	29
Education	108
Health & Social Work	194
Arts & Other Services	108

Base: all establishments that have had placements in the last 12 months

Table A.5.1: Unweighted base sizes (i.e. number of completed interviews) for all establishments providing training

	Unweighted base
Scotland	2,167
Size
2-4	340
5-9	505
10-24	566
25-49	352
50-99	155
100+	249
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	104
Manufacturing	133
Construction	117
Wholesale & Retail	399
Hotels & Restaurants	238
Transport, Storage & Comms	138
Financial Services	73
Business Services	344
Public Admin.	73
Education	125
Health & Social Work	259
Arts & Other Services	164
Region*
Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire	256
Ayrshire	135
Borders	78
Dumfries and Galloway	90
Edinburgh and Lothians	283
Fife	123
Forth Valley	117
Glasgow	231
Highlands and Islands	344
Lanarkshire	195
Tayside	187
West	120
West Lothian	51

Base: all establishments providing training; *Note: summing the regional bases will not sum to an all-Scotland base due to overlap in the local authorities included in each ROA (see appendix C)

Table A.5.2: Unweighted base sizes (i.e. number of completed interviews) for all establishments training to vocational qualifications

	Unweighted base
Scotland	1,101
Size
2-4	109
5-9	185
10-24	310
25-49	214
50-99	102
100+	181
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	52
Manufacturing	68
Construction	69
Wholesale & Retail	173
Hotels & Restaurants	119
Transport, Storage & Comms	61
Financial Services	31
Business Services	177
Public Admin.	45
Education	78
Health & Social Work	170
Arts & Other Services	58

Base: all establishments providing training to Vocational Qualifications

Table A.5.3: Unweighted base sizes (i.e. number of completed interviews) for all establishments with skills/training issues

	Unweighted base
Scotland	944
Size
2-4	140
5-9	182
10-24	232
25-49	159
50-99	82
100+	149
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	50
Manufacturing	70
Construction	63
Wholesale & Retail	128
Hotels & Restaurants	88
Transport, Storage & Comms	55
Financial Services	28
Business Services	149
Public Admin.	34
Education	83
Health & Social Work	125
Arts & Other Services	71

Base: all establishments with skills/training issues

Table A.5.4: Unweighted base sizes (i.e. number of completed interviews) for all establishments providing external training

	Unweighted base
Scotland	1,635
Size
2-4	209
5-9	334
10-24	427
25-49	301
50-99	137
100+	227
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	91
Manufacturing	101
Construction	94
Wholesale & Retail	257
Hotels & Restaurants	161
Transport, Storage & Comms	97
Financial Services	50
Business Services	279
Public Admin.	52
Education	107
Health & Social Work	232
Arts & Other Services	114

Base: all establishments providing external training

Table A.6.1: Proportion of employers offering apprenticeships, by region

Region (data shown as row percentages)	Unwtd. base	Has current apprentices	Currently offers apprenticeships	Summary: has/offers apprenticeships
ROA Regions
Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire	313	11%	6%	17%
Ayrshire	167	12%	3%	15%
Borders	103	10%	4%	14%
Dumfries & Galloway	111	10%	2%	13%
Edinburgh & Lothians	334	9%	4%	12%
Fife	150	8%	5%	12%
Forth Valley	137	12%	3%	15%
Glasgow	275	11%	6%	17%
Highlands & Islands	432	9%	4%	13%
Lanarkshire	245	11%	5%	16%
Tayside	233	10%	9%	19%
West	143	17%	6%	22%
West Lothian	61	15%	12%	27%
SDS Regions
North	432	9%	4%	13%
North East	696	10%	7%	17%
West	399	14%	5%	19%
South West	490	12%	4%	15%
South East	383	9%	3%	12%
City Deal Regions
Glasgow City Region	611	13%	5%	18%
Edinburgh & South East	648	9%	5%	14%
Stirling & Clackmannanshire	78	13%	5%	17%
Inverness & Highlands	217	7%	5%	12%
Growth Deal Regions
Argyll & Bute Rural Growth Deal	103	10%	3%	13%
Falkirk Investment Zone	59	10%	1%	12%
The Islands Growth Deal	54	9%	5%	14%
Moray Growth Deal	58	16%	-	16%

Base: all employers findings of ‘zero’ are denoted by a dash ‘-’.

Table A.6.2: Awareness and knowledge of apprenticeships among employers not offering apprenticeships

Row percentages	Unwtd. base		Have not heard of apprenticeships	Have heard the term but do not know what is involved	Aware of them and have some knowledge of what is involved	Aware of them and have a good knowledge of what is involved	Aware of them and have a very good knowledge of what is involved
Scotland	2,028	%	2	21	50	19	8
Size
2 to 4	596	%	3	21	49	19	8
5 to 9	520	%	2	19	50	20	8
10 to 24	467	%	1	23	51	17	7
25 to 49	230	%	2	17	51	21	8
50 to 99	101	%	1	17	52	21	8
100+	114	%	1	10	49	31	9
Sector
Primary Sector & Utilities	119	%	2	23	59	13	*
Manufacturing	110	%	2	13	51	22	12
Construction	90	%	3	9	38	32	18
Wholesale & Retail	392	%	2	20	49	22	7
Hotels & Restaurants	246	%	5	27	46	14	7
Transport, Storage & Comms	137	%	2	20	49	24	4
Financial Services	84	%	2	24	56	15	4
Business Services	321	%	2	23	52	13	10
Public Admin.	47	%	-	14	62	17	6
Education	86	%	-	18	34	40	7
Health & Social Work	227	%	2	23	49	21	5
Arts & Other Services	169	%	1	20	51	20	8

Base: all employers not offering apprenticeships
Findings of ‘zero’ are denoted by a dash ‘-’; an asterisk ‘*’ is used if the figure is larger than zero but smaller than 0.5.