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Employment: Private and Public Sector

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 September 2011:"As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Questions asking how many private sector jobs were created in each month in the last two years in each parliamentary constituency (72023); what proportion of employment was public sector employment in each parliamentary constituency in (a) June 2010 and (b) June 2011 (72032); and what the rates of unemployment were in the hundred parliamentary constituencies with the greatest level of public sector employment in each of the last 18 months. (72039)""Due to small sample sizes, estimates of the number of private sector jobs created are not available for parliamentary constituencies.""Table 1 shows the percentage of public sector employment in each parliamentary constituency, from the Annual Population Survey (APS), for the latest available period (January 2010 to December 2010) and for 12 months earlier. Individuals in the APS are classified to the public or private sector according to their responses to the survey.""Table 2 shows the unemployment rate in the 100 parliamentary constituencies with the highest level of public sector employment (based on the January 2010 to December 2010 period) for each period from the twelve month period July 2008 to June 2009 to the latest available period.""As the information requested is quite extensive, a copy has been placed in the House of Commons Library.""As with any sample survey, estimates from the APS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.""National and local area estimates for many labour market statistics, including employment, unemployment and claimant count are available on the NOMIS website at:""http://www.nomisweb.co.uk"

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

72039; 533 c117-8W

Session

2010-12

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2011-1576
Monday, 10 October 2011
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Subjects

Employment Public sector

Link

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