Public sector employment in Scotland: statistics for second quarter 2020

Statistics 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 June 2020.


Table 8: Total reserved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Full-time equivalent

Footnotes1,3

Not Seasonally Adjusted

Total Reserved Public Sector Civil Service Armed Forces Public Bodies 2 Public Corporations2 Public Sector Financial Institutions2 Other Public Sector2
Q2 1999 71,300 32,000 14,900 5,400 18,900 - 24,300
Q2 2014 55,300 23,600 10,400 9,200 * * 21,400
Q2 2015 53,500 23,800 9,400 * * * 20,300
Q2 2016 54,400 23,300 10,000 * * * 21,200
Q2 2017 53,300 23,600 9,800 * * * 20,000
Q2 2018 52,100 22,800 9,700 * * * 19,600
Q2 2019 54,000 22,600 9,700 * * * 21,700
Q2 2020 50,400 21,700 9,800 * * * 18,800
Change on year to:
Q2 2020 -3,630 -830 130 -2,930
% change on year:
Q2 2020 -6.7% -3.7% 1.3% -13.5%

Notes:

1. Employment figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred. Change on year rounded to the nearest ten. Percentages are based on unrounded figures. "-" denotes blank entries and "*" denotes entries that have been suppressed for disclosure reasons. Totals may not equal the sum of individual parts due to rounding.

2. Public corporations, public sector financial institutions and public bodies, have been combined into 'other public sector' to ensure individual organisation figures are not disclosed.

3. For further information on interpreting these series, see the series reclassification guide or background notes of the publication.

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