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Employment

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated January 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many (a) UK nationals, (b) UK-born people, (c) foreign nationals, (d) non-UK KU nationals and (e) non-BU nationals of working age were in employment in (i) the public sector and (ii) the private sector in each of (A) the last four quarters and (B) the last 10 years for which figures are available; and if he will also express such numbers as a proportion of each sector in each case. (246180)""The requested information is shown in the attached tables.""The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) in order to provide the breakdowns by nationality and country of birth. These estimates are based on the respondents' views about the organisation for which they work. They do not correspond to official Public Sector Employment estimates, which come directly from surveys of employers and are based on National Accounts definitions.""The public sector definition used to answer this question should not be compared with the industry sector breakdown given in your parliamentary question 246179.""As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.""The figures in the table are derived from the LFS microdata, which are weighted using the official population estimates published in autumn 2007. Consequently, the estimates from Q3 2006 are not entirely consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistics First Release, or the migrant worker figures published every quarter, which are weighted using more up-to-date population estimates."

Employment levels and percentage¹ working in each sector for working-age² people by nationality and country of birth, United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted
Thousands and Percentages
	Public Sector
	UK Nationals	UK born	Non-UK nationals³	Non-UK EU national4	Non-EU nationals
	Level	Percentage	Level	Percentage	Level	Percentage	Level	Percentage	Level	Percentage
1999 Q3	5,723	96	5,484	92	218	4	93	2	125	2
2000 Q3	5,847	96	5,615	92	239	4	93	2	146	2
2001 Q3	5,850	96	5,597	92	234	4	76	1	157	3
2002 Q3	5,993	96	5,730	92	261	4	94	2	167	3
2003 Q3	6,056	95	5,785	91	289	5	92	1	197	3
2004 Q3	6,311	95	6,026	91	321	5	111	2	209	3
2005 Q3	6,399	95	6,117	90	364	5	132	2	232	3
2006 Q3	6,352	95	6,056	90	355	5	114	2	241	4
2007 Q3	6,214	94	5,900	90	367	6	136	2	231	4
2007 Q4	6,305	94	5,979	90	367	5	148	2	218	3
2008 Q1	6,299	94	5,970	89	384	6	136	2	249	4
2008 Q2	6,349	94	6,025	90	375	6	138	2	236	4
2008 Q35	*6,293	94	*5,973	90	**373	6	***134	2	**238	4
Source:
Labour Force Survey

	Private Sector
	UK Nationals	UK born	Non-UK nationals³	Non-UK EU national4	Non-EU nationals
	Level	Percentage	Level	Percentage	Level	Percentage	Level	Percentage	Level	Percentage
1999 Q3	19,683	96	18,882	92	788	4	329	2	459	2
2000 Q3	19,751	96	18,967	92	900	4	352	2	548	3
2001 Q3	19,803	95	19,024	92	975	5	388	2	587	3
2002 Q3	19,740	95	18,888	91	1,035	5	365	2	671	3
2003 Q3	19,807	95	18,939	91	1,075	5	380	2	695	3
2004 Q3	19,705	95	18,832	90	1,139	5	440	2	699	3
2005 Q3	19,774	94	18,836	90	1,249	6	522	2	726	3
2006 Q3	19,639	93	18,702	88	1,547	7	635	3	912	4
2007 Q3	19,688	92	18,681	87	1,731	8	830	4	900	4
2007 Q4	19,618	92	18,617	87	1,795	8	859	4	936	4
2008 Q1	19,447	91	18,457	87	1,853	9	925	4	928	4
2008 Q2	19,404	91	18,388	86	1,872	9	917	4	955	4
2008 Q35	*19,513	91	*18,493	86	*1,895	9	*906	4	*988	5
¹ The percentages show the associated levels expressed as a proportion of the total number of working-age people (including those who did not state their nationality or country of birth) working in each sector.
² Men aged 16-64 and women aged 16-59.
³ Excludes those whose nationality was not known.
4 The A8 (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) joined the EU on 1 May 2004 and are included from 2004 Q3 onwards. Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU on 1 January 2007 and are included from 2007 Q1 onwards.
5 Coefficients of Variation have been calculated for the latest period as an indication of the quality of the estimates, as described below:
Guide to Quality:
The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of an estimate, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV - for example, for an estimate of 200 with a CV of 5 per cent. we would expect the population total to be within the range 180-220.
Key Coefficient of Variation (CV) (%) Statistical robustness
* 0 = CV <5 Estimates are considered precise.
** 5 = CV <10 Estimates are considered reasonably precise.
*** 10 = CV < 20 Estimates are considered acceptable.
**** CV = 20 Estimates are considered too unreliable for practical purposes.
Note:
It should be noted that the above estimates exclude people in most types of communal establishment (e.g. hotels, boarding houses, hostels, mobile home sites etc).
Source:
Labour Force Survey

Secondary information

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Written question

Reference

486 c479-82W; 246180

Session

2008-09

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Tuesday, 23 June 2009
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