Public sector employment in Scotland: statistics for fourth quarter 2019

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 December 2019.


List of Tables

Table 1: Number of people employed by public and private sector; Scotland, Headcount

Table 2: Public sector employment by devolved and reserved sector; Scotland, Headcount and Full-time equivalent

Table 3: Total devolved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Headcount

Table 4: Total reserved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Headcount

Table 5: Devolved civil service employment; Scotland, Headcount

Table 6: Reserved civil service employment; Scotland, Headcount

Table 7: Total devolved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Full-time equivalent

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

Table 9: Devolved civil service employment; Scotland, Full-time equivalent

Table 10: Reserved civil service employment; Scotland, Full-time equivalent

These tables include comparisons for Q1 in 1999 and 2013 to 2019 only. A complete time series, including all quarters back to Q1 1999 is provided in the excel spreadsheets published at the public sector employment web section https://www.gov.scot/publications/public-sector-employment-statistics-web-tables/

Contact

Email: lmstats@gov.scot

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