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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