Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 1st 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
Q1 1999 74,000 33,700 5,000 14,800 20,500
Q1 2006 77,900 35,800 6,500 13,500 22,100
Q1 2007 73,000 34,300 6,100 12,600 20,000
Q1 2008 69,000 32,700 6,000 12,000 18,300
Q1 2009 112,700 33,100 5,900 12,000 18,000 43,600
Q1 2010 103,900 33,000 5,000 12,100 17,600 36,300
Q1 2011 99,600 31,600 4,800 12,100 16,600 34,600
Q1 2012 93,700 29,900 4,500 11,200 15,600 32,500
Change on year to:
Q1 2012 -5,900 -1,700 -200 -900 -900 -2,100
% change on year:
Q1 2012 -5.9% -5.4% -4.8% -7.4% -5.7% -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. Where the change on the year is less than 50 this rounds to '0'

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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Email: Gayle Mackie

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