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Publication - Statistics

Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 2nd Quarter 2012

Published
12 September 2012
ISBN
9781782560524

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).

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Table 2: Public sector employment by National Accounts Sector Classification; Scotland, Headcount
Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Public Sector National Accounts Central Government Category Local Government Public Corporations Public Sector Financial Institutions
Civil Service Other Public Bodies NHS Armed Forces Further Education Colleges Total Central Government
Q2 1999 545,100 48,500 13,600 129,100 14,900 15,700 221,800 293,500 29,900
Q2 2006 601,300 52,800 18,600 148,300 12,900 16,600 249,200 323,700 28,400
Q2 2007 595,600 50,600 19,800 152,700 12,400 16,700 252,300 318,100 25,200
Q2 2008 595,100 49,600 21,800 155,200 12,100 16,900 255,600 313,700 25,800
Q2 2009 630,900 51,100 21,600 159,300 12,000 16,900 260,800 306,300 24,400 39,500
Q2 2010 621,700 50,100 20,800 160,100 12,200 16,000 259,300 301,900 23,800 36,700
Q2 2011 596,900 48,700 19,500 155,300 11,900 15,900 251,300 289,000 22,700 33,800
Q2 2012 580,100 46,000 19,000 153,400 11,000 14,600 244,100 282,000 22,000 32,000
Change on year to:
Q2 2012 -16,700 -2,700 -400 -1,900 -900 -1,300 -7,200 -7,000 -700 -1,800
% change on year:
Q2 2012 -2.8% -5.5% -2.2% -1.2% -7.5% -8.2% -2.9% -2.4% -3.2% -5.4%

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. Local Government category revised to include Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) following a review by the National Accounts Classifications Team at ONS.
4. A number of local government staff have transferred to arms length organisations which are part of the private sector under National Accounts definitions. For example, staff transferrred from Glasgow City Council to Cordia Limited Liability Partnership from 1 April 2009 thus explaining the decrease in local government employment between 2008 and 2009.
5. Information for further education colleges in Scotland is based on actual information from Q4 2010. The method used to create the back series is detailed in the background notes of this publication.
6. From Q4 2011, NHS has responsibility for employing Healthcare staff within prisons. Previously, these people were employed directly by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS).
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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