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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 Stephen Penneck, dated July 2010:"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-HU nationals of working age were in employment in the (i) public and (ii) private sector in each of the last 12 quarters for which figures are available; and what the equivalent figures were in 1997. (10596)""In the Labour Force Survey (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.""The available information is shown in the table. The estimates are derived from the LFS and are not seasonally adjusted. 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 2009. These estimates are consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistical Bulletin."

Employment levels for people of working age¹ in employment by public and private sector and by nationality and country of birth. Three months ending December 1997 and three months ending March, June, September and December, 2007 to 2010 United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted
Thousand
	Public sector², ³
	UK nationals	UK born	Non-UK EU nationals6	Non-EU nationals6
1997 Q4	5,671	5,456	38	140
2007 Q2	6,286	5,976	127	248
2007 Q3	6,214	5,900	136	231
2007 Q4	6,301	5,976	148	218
2008 Q1	6,293	5,964	135	249
2008 Q2	6,342	6,018	138	236
2008 Q3	6,284	5,964	134	238
2008 Q4	6,379	6,043	124	266
2009 Q1	6,432	6,097	114	268
2009 Q2	6,424	6,104	126	262
2009 Q3	6,496	6,173	130	245
2009 Q4	6,512	6,169	129	262
2010 Q17	*6,455	*6,110	***134	**259

Thousand
	Private sector², 4
	UK nationals	UK born	Non-UK EU nationals6	Non-EU nationals6
1997 Q4	19,112	18,354	183	425
2007 Q2	19,388	18,432	840	873
2007 Q3	19,679	18,674	830	899
2007 Q4	19,608	18,609	858	935
2008 Q1	19,431	18,443	923	927
2008 Q2	19,384	18,370	915	953
2008 Q3	19,229	18,474	904	986
2008 Q4	19,229	18,189	921	1,010
2009 Q1	18,880	17,830	975	933
2009 Q2	18,652	17,628	946	909
2009 Q3	18,763	17,751	915	906
2009 Q4	18,682	17,682	911	925
2010 Q17	*18,491	*17,474	*911	*883

Thousand
	Total employment4, 5
	UK nationals	UK born	Non-UK EU nationals6	Non-EU nationals6
1997 Q4	24,923	23,947	221	568
2007 Q2	25,782	24,507	968	1,133
2007 Q3	26,014	24,686	968	1,143
2007 Q4	26,036	24,706	1,009	1,162
2008 Q1	25,849	24,528	1,066	1,184
2008 Q2	25,855	24,507	1,062	1,199
2008 Q3	25,898	24,552	1,043	1,231
2008 Q4	25,725	24,347	1,049	1,284
2009 Q1	25,431	24,043	1,094	1,208
2009 Q2	25,201	23,849	1,075	1,180
2009 Q3	25,387	24,043	1,052	1,159
2009 Q4	25,325	23,974	1,045	1,197
2010 Q17	*25,102	*23,731	*1,052	*1,155
¹ Men aged 16-64 and women aged 16-59.
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 establishment, 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 Other EU comprises Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden only in 1997 Q4. Meaningful comparisons between 1997 Q4 and 2010 Q1 are not possible due to the changes in the composition of EU.
7 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% we would expect the population total to be within the range 180-220.
Key:
* 0 = CV<5%—Statistical Robustness: Estimates are considered precise
** 5 = CV <10%—Statistical Robustness: Estimates are considered reasonably precise
*** 10 = CV <20%—Statistical Robustness: Estimates are considered acceptable
**** CV = 20%—Statistical Robustness: 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 (eg hotels, boarding houses, hostels mobile home sites etc.)
Source:
Labour Force Survey

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

10596; 514 c564-6W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Employment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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