Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 2nd 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 9: Total reserved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Full-time equivalent
Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Reserved
Public Sector
Civil Service Public Bodies Armed Forces Public Corporations Public Sector
Financial Institutions
Q2 1999 70,900 32,000 4,800 14,900 19,100
Q2 2006 72,800 33,600 6,100 12,900 20,200
Q2 2007 66,500 31,600 5,600 12,400 17,000
Q2 2008 65,400 30,400 5,500 12,100 17,500
Q2 2009 101,400 31,200 5,500 12,000 16,500 36,300
Q2 2010 96,600 29,900 4,800 12,200 16,000 33,700
Q2 2011 90,800 28,500 4,400 11,900 14,900 31,100
Q2 2012 85,600 26,700 4,300 11,000 14,200 29,400
Change on year to:
Q2 2012 -5,200 -1,800 -100 -900 -700 -1,700
% change on year:
Q2 2012 -5.7% -6.3% -2.0% -7.5% -4.4% -5.5%

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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