Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 4th Quarter 2022

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 2022.


Table 6: Total reserved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Full-time equivalent [note 1] [note 3]

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Not Seasonally Adjusted

Quarter Revisions Total Reserved Public Sector Civil Service Armed Forces Other Public Sector [note 2]
Q4 1999 73,100 31,900 15,100 26,100
Q4 2016 53,200 23,400 10,000 19,800
Q4 2017 52,400 23,300 9,800 19,300
Q4 2018 51,600 22,600 9,700 19,300
Q4 2019 53,000 22,100 9,700 21,200
Q4 2020 51,500 22,300 9,800 19,300
Q4 2021 52,300 23,000 10,100 19,200
Q4 2022 53,000 22,600 10,500 20,000
Change on year to Q4 2022 730 -360 330 750
% change on year Q4 2022 1.4% -1.5% 3.3% 3.9%

Notes:

Note 1: Employment figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred. Change on year rounded to the nearest ten. Percentages are based on unrounded figures. Totals may not equal the sum of individual parts due to rounding.

Note 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.

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

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