BICS weighted Scotland estimates: data to wave 74
Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) weighted Scotland estimates containing data to wave 74
Recruitment
In Wave 74, businesses not permanently stopped trading were asked if they had experienced any difficulties recruiting employees in December 2022.
Figure 1: Difficulties in recruiting employees had been experienced by an estimated 45.9% of applicable businesses. The highest rate of recruitment difficulties was reported by businesses in the Accommodation & Food Services (63.4%) industry sector.
Source: Office for National Statistics – BICS – Weighted Scotland Estimates – Wave 74
Of those businesses having had recruitment difficulties, nearly two thirds reported having a lack of qualified applicants for the roles on offer (63.9%) and over half reported having a low number of applications for the roles on offer (55.6%). More than one fifth of businesses having had recruitment difficulties reported that this was due to a reduced number of EU applicants (20.6%), with this share rising to 41.7% in the Accommodation and Food Services industry sector.
Contact
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Marina Curran
Business & Innovation Statistics
Office of the Chief Economic Adviser
e-mail: marina.curran@gov.scot or industrystatistics@gov.scot
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Office of the Chief Statistician
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