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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 Jil Matheson, dated November 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) non-UK EU nationals and (d) non-KU nationals of working age were in employment in the (i) public and (ii) private sector in each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available; what proportion of the number of people employed in each sector the figures in each such category represent; and what the equivalent figures were in 1987. (300823)""The available information is shown in the attached tables. The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). Estimates for 1987 are not available. The earliest available estimates on a comparable basis are for 1995 and these have therefore been included.""In the LFS the distinction between public and private sector is based on respondents' views about the organisation for which they work. The public sector estimates provided do not correspond to official Public Sector Employment estimates. Those are derived directly from employers and are based on National Accounts definitions, but do not include a nationality breakdown.""As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty. This is assessed in a footnote to the table.""The figures in the table are derived from the LFS microdata which are weighted using the official population estimates published in autumn 2007. They are not entirely consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistical Bulletin, which are weighted using more up-to-date population estimates."

Part 1: Employment levels for people of working age¹ in employment by public and private sector and by nationality and country of birth Three months ending September 1995 and three months ending March, June, September and December, 2007 to 2009 United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted
	Thousand
	Public sector²,³	Private sector²,4	Total employment4,5
	UK nationals	UK born	Non-UK EU nationals6	Non-EU nationals6	UK nationals	UK born	Non-UK EU nationals6	Non-EU nationals6	UK nationals	UK born	Non-UK EU nationals6	Non-EU nationals6
1995 Q3	5,729	5,493	86	116	18,451	17,783	292	345	24,357	23,444	381	467
2007 Q4	6,305	5,979	148	218	19,618	18,617	859	936	26,050	24,718	1,010	1,163
2008 Q1	6,299	5,970	136	249	19,447	18,457	928	928	25,870	24,547	1,068	1,186
2008 Q2	6,349	6,025	138	236	19,404	18,388	917	955	25,882	24,532	1,065	1,201
2008 Q3	6,293	5,973	134	238	19,513	18,493	906	988	25,928	24,580	1,045	1,234
2008 Q4	6,387	6,052	124	266	19,245	18,206	923	1,015	25,749	24,372	1,052	1,290
2009 Q1	6,443	6,109	113	268	18,891	17,842	979	940	25,454	24,067	1,097	1,215
2009Q2	5,444	6,124	125	263	18,658	17,639	949	917	25,227	23,881	1,078	1,190
2009 Q37	*6,514	*6,192	***130	**247	*18,775	*17,771	*922	*912	*25,416	*24,082	*1,060	1,168

Part 2: Working age employment in public and private sector by nationality and country of birth, as a proportion of the total working age employment in each sector. Three months ending September 1395 and three months ending March, June, September and December, 2007 to 2003 United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted
Percentage
	Public sector²,³	Private sector²,4	Total employment4,5
	UK nationals	UK born	Non-UK EU nationals6	Non-EU nationals6	UK nationals	UK born	Non-UK EU nationals6	Non-EU nationals6	UK nationals	UK born	Non-UK EU nationals6	Non-EU nationals6
1995 Q3	97	93	1	2	97	93	2	2	97	93	2	2
2007 Q4	95	90	2	3	92	87	4	4	92	88	4	4
2008 Q1	94	88	2	4	91	87	4	4	92	87	4	4
2008 Q2	94	90	2	4	91	86	4	5	92	87	4	4
2008 Q3	94	90	2	4	91	86	4	5	92	87	4	4
2008 Q4	94	89	2	4	91	86	4	5	92	87	4	5
2009 Q1	94	90	2	4	91	86	5	5	92	87	4	4
2009 Q2	94	90	2	4	91	86	5	5	92	87	4	4
2009 Q3	95	90	2	4	91	86	5	4	92	87	4	4
¹ Men aged 16-64 and woman aged 16-19.
² It should be noted that public and private sector estimates
- are based on survey respondents' views about the organisation for which they work.
- do not correspond to the national Accounts definition used for public Sector Employment estimates.
³ Includes nationalised industry or state corporation, central government, civil service, local government or council (incl. police, fire services and local authority controlled schools or colleges), university or other grant funded educational establishments, health authority or NHS trust and armed forces
4 Includes self employed and unpaid family workers
5 Includes those whose type of employer was not known
6 Non-UK EU comprises Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden only in 1995 Q3. Meaningful comparisons between 1995 Q3 and 2009 Q3 are not possible due to the changes in the composition of the EU.
7 Coefficients of Variation have been calculated for the latest period 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 Statistical Robustness
* Estimates are considered precise
** Estimates are considered reasonably precise
*** Estimates are considered acceptable
**** Estimates are considered too unreliable for practical purposes
Source:
Annual Population Survey and Annual Labour Force Survey

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

501 c696-700W; 300823

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Employment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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