Public sector employment in Scotland: statistics for fourth quarter 2013
Employment snapshot statistics based on administrative records and surveys of individual public sector bodies.
Table 1: Number of people employed by public and private sector; Scotland, Headcount
Not Seasonally Adjusted
| Total Employment | Private Sector | Public Sector | Private Sector | Public Sector | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Including public sector financial institutions | Excluding public sector financial institutions | ||||||||
| Level | Level | Percentage of total employment | Level | Percentage of total employment | Level | Percentage of total employment | Level | Percentage of total employment | |
| Q4 1999 | 2,276,000 | 1,725,000 | 75.8% | 551,200 | 24.2% | 1,725,000 | 75.8% | 551,200 | 24.2% |
| Q4 2007 | 2,541,000 | 1,941,800 | 76.4% | 598,900 | 23.6% | 1,941,800 | 76.4% | 598,900 | 23.6% |
| Q4 2008 | 2,532,000 | 1,885,300 | 74.4% | 647,100 | 25.6% | 1,927,900 | 76.1% | 604,500 | 23.9% |
| Q4 2009 | 2,464,000 | 1,829,300 | 74.2% | 634,700 | 25.8% | 1,865,000 | 75.7% | 599,000 | 24.3% |
| Q4 2010 | 2,480,000 | 1,864,300 | 75.2% | 615,700 | 24.8% | 1,897,800 | 76.5% | 582,300 | 23.5% |
| Q4 2011 | 2,464,000 | 1,873,100 | 76.0% | 590,400 | 24.0% | 1,904,500 | 77.3% | 559,000 | 22.7% |
| Q4 2012 | 2,468,000 | 1,888,400 | 76.5% | 580,100 | 23.5% | 1,917,100 | 77.7% | 551,400 | 22.3% |
| Q4 2013 | 2,559,000 | 1,992,200 | 77.9% | 566,300 | 22.1% | 2,023,100 | 79.1% | 535,400 | 20.9% |
| Change on year to: | |||||||||
| Q4 2013 | 90,100 | 103,900 | -13,800 | 106,000 | -15,900 | ||||
| % change on year: | |||||||||
| Q4 2013 | 3.6% | 5.5% | -2.4% | 5.5% | -2.9% | ||||
Notes:
1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred. Total employment has been rounded to the nearest thousand.
2. Public sector financial institutions include Northern Rock (classified to the public sector from Q4 2007), Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc, HMOS/Lloyds Banking Group plc (both classified to the public sector from Q4 2008), Lloyds TSB Commercial Banking. Those organisations classified as Public Sector Financial Institutions and SIC 64.
3. Public 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). For Q1 the Feb-Apr 2013 rolling estimate from the LFS was used.
4. 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
Contact
Email: Susanne Ross
Phone: 0300 244 4000 – Central Enquiry Unit
The Scottish Government
St Andrew's House
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