Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 4th 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 5: Total reserved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Headcount
Not Seasonally Adjusted
| Total Reserved Public Sector |
Civil Service | Public Bodies | Armed Forces | Public Corporations |
Public Sector Financial Institutions |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4 1999 | 76,700 | 33,800 | 6,000 | 15,100 | 21,900 | |
| Q4 2006 | 76,500 | 35,500 | 7,000 | 12,800 | 21,200 | |
| Q4 2007 | 72,500 | 33,200 | 7,100 | 12,200 | 20,000 | |
| Q4 2008 | 120,100 | 32,900 | 8,000 | 12,000 | 24,600 | |
| Q4 2009 | 112,300 | 33,600 | 7,100 | 11,900 | 24,100 | 35,700 |
| Q4 2010 | 106,200 | 31,000 | 7,400 | 12,300 | 22,100 | 33,500 |
| Q4 2011 | 101,000 | 30,500 | 6,900 | 11,600 | 20,500 | 31,400 |
| Q4 2012 | 95,200 | 29,000 | 6,800 | 10,900 | 19,900 | 28,700 |
| Change on year to: | ||||||
| Q4 2012 | -5,700 | -1,500 | -100 | -700 | -600 | -2,700 |
| % change on year: | ||||||
| Q4 2012 | -5.7% | -5.0% | -2.0% | -6.4% | -3.0% | -8.7% |
Notes:
1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred. 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, HMOS/Lloyds Banking Group plc (both classified to the public sector from Q4 2008) Lloyds TSB Commercial Banking. Those organisation classified as Public Sector Financial Institutions and SIC 64.
3. Where the change on the year is less than 50 this rounds to '0'.
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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