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Table 8.1 Persons aged 15 – 89 years in employment (ILO) classified by sex and occupation (SOC10)

Table 8.1 Persons aged 15-89 years in employment (ILO) classified by sex and occupation (SOC2010)
'000
Broad occupational group		Q3 20	Q2 21	Q3 21	Q4 21	Q1 22	Q2 22	Q3 22
Males
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	121.3	125.0	136.3	136.8	145.6	143.4	142.4
2.	Professionals	226.5	246.7	257.8	259.8	254.6	254.2	253.6
3.	Associate professional and technical	163.6	180.0	180.0	182.9	180.1	180.3	187.1
4.	Administrative and secretarial	57.5	62.4	56.6	61.6	66.0	59.2	64.0
5.	Skilled trades	273.0	261.5	267.5	273.2	278.1	291.6	300.0
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	38.4	36.9	39.7	41.2	44.1	46.5	44.5
7.	Sales and customer service	71.4	76.9	77.7	76.5	68.6	69.0	72.9
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	144.3	137.3	149.5	155.6	157.0	168.7	161.5
9.	Elementary	128.3	132.6	144.8	135.2	131.6	140.0	134.5
	Other/Not stated	*	*	[6.9]	*	*	[7.3]	11.3
Total males		1,226.7	1,263.2	1,316.7	1,328.1	1,331.0	1,360.2	1,371.8

Females
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	66.4	71.6	84.3	81.9	83.3	82.5	81.3
2.	Professionals	257.2	281.7	279.7	308.5	300.4	303.2	304.3
3.	Associate professional and technical	121.4	136.8	137.5	144.7	144.4	142.6	141.3
4.	Administrative and secretarial	183.5	199.5	204.0	205.3	209.4	203.3	191.4
5.	Skilled trades	25.2	21.7	31.8	31.8	33.2	31.7	28.2
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	150.6	150.0	154.6	151.5	153.7	165.6	164.8
7.	Sales and customer service	104.3	107.1	110.9	105.8	106.6	116.0	115.5
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	25.1	28.4	34.9	37.4	33.0	31.6	35.3
9.	Elementary	87.1	84.8	113.2	106.5	106.7	111.7	109.2
	Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	[6.4]	11.2
Total females		1,023.3	1,085.9	1,154.5	1,177.9	1,174.7	1,194.4	1,182.5

All persons
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	187.7	196.6	220.6	218.6	228.8	225.8	223.7
2.	Professionals	483.7	528.4	537.5	568.3	555.1	557.3	557.9
3.	Associate professional and technical	284.9	316.7	317.6	327.7	324.5	322.9	328.5
4.	Administrative and secretarial	241.1	261.9	260.5	266.9	275.4	262.5	255.4
5.	Skilled trades	298.2	283.2	299.3	305.0	311.3	323.3	328.1
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	189.0	187.0	194.3	192.7	197.8	212.1	209.3
7.	Sales and customer service	175.7	184.0	188.6	182.2	175.2	185.0	188.4
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	169.4	165.7	184.4	193.0	190.0	200.3	196.8
9.	Elementary	215.3	217.4	258.0	241.7	238.3	251.7	243.7
	Other/Not stated	*	[8.2]	[10.4]	[9.8]	[9.4]	13.7	22.5
Total persons		2,250.0	2,349.1	2,471.2	2,506.0	2,505.8	2,554.6	2,554.3
¹ Parentheses [ ] indicate where there are 30-49 persons in a cell, estimates are considered to have a wider margin of error and should be treated with caution.
² An asterisk (*) indicates that estimates for numbers of persons or averages where there are less than 30 persons in a cell are not produced as estimates are too small to be considered reliable.

Open in Excel: Labour Force Survey Quarter 3 2022 Table 8.1 (XLS 49KB)

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Table 8.3 Persons aged 15 years and over classified by Principal Economic Status (PES)

Table 8.11 Labour Force Survey results classified by ILO Economic Status for persons in EU member states

Table 8.11 Labour Force Survey results classified by ILO Economic Status for persons in EU member states ¹
%
	Employment rate % (15-64 years)				Unemployment rate % (15-74 years)				Participation rate % (15 years and over)
		Q2 21	Q2 22	Annual change		Q2 21	Q2 22	Annual change		Q2 21	Q2 22	Annual change
				Q2 22pp ²				Q2 22pp ²				Q2 22pp ²
EU27		68.1	70.0	1.9		7.2	6.0	-1.2		57.0	57.7	0.7
Eurozone ³		67.7	69.7	2.0		7.9	6.6	-1.3		56.8	57.6	0.8

Belgium		65.0	66.0	1.0		6.1	5.6	-0.5		54.2	54.8	0.6
Bulgaria		67.8	69.8	2.0		5.6	4.7	-0.9		55.2	56.3	1.1
Czech Republic		73.7	75.2	1.5		3.0	2.4	-0.6		59.4	59.8	0.4
Denmark		75.6	77.0	1.4		4.7	4.0	-0.7		62.4	63.3	0.9
Germany ⁵		75.2	77.3	2.5		3.7	3.0	-0.7		60.1	61.3	1.2
Estonia		72.7	76.0	3.3		6.9	5.8	-1.1		63.3	65.4	2.1
Ireland		68.6	73.5	4.9		7.3	4.5	-2.8		63.1	65.2	2.1
Greece		57.0	61.1	4.1		15.8	12.5	-3.3		51.3	52.6	1.3
Spain ⁴		62.4	64.8	2.4		15.3	12.5	-2.8		57.8	57.9	0.1
France ⁴		67.2	68.2	1.0		7.6	7.1	-0.5		55.7	56.1	0.4
Croatia		63.6	64.9	1.3		8.0	7.3	-0.7		52.2	52.5	0.3
Italy		58.2	60.5	2.3		9.6	8.0	-1.6		48.6	49.4	0.8
Cyprus		70.1	72.7	2.6		8.4	6.9	-1.5		63.9	65.1	1.2
Latvia		69.5	71.5	2.0		7.9	6.6	-1.3		60.1	61.1	1.0
Lithuania		71.9	74.4	2.5		7.4	5.3	-2.1		62.1	63.0	0.9
Luxembourg		69.7	70.3	0.6		5.6	4.5	-1.1		62.6	61.6	-1.0
Hungary		72.8	74.3	1.5		4.1	3.2	-0.9		59.4	60.1	0.7
Malta		74.8	77.5	2.7		3.4	2.9	-0.5		62.7	64.3	1.6
Netherlands		79.7	81.8	2.1		4.3	3.3	-1.0		66.9	67.9	1.0
Austria		71.6	74.1	2.5		6.5	4.3	-2.2		60.6	61.3	0.7
Poland		70.0	71.4	1.4		3.5	2.6	-0.9		57.1	57.4	0.3
Portugal		70.2	71.6	1.4		6.7	5.8	-0.9		57.9	58.4	0.5
Romania		62.4	63.5	1.1		5.1	5.3	0.2		51.2	52.1	0.9
Slovenia		71.9	73.1	1.2		4.4	4.2	-0.2		58.6	59.2	0.6
Slovakia		68.8	71.4	2.6		6.9	6.1	-0.8		60.1	61.5	1.4
Finland		73.5	75.4	1.9		9.0	7.2	-1.8		62.0	62.4	0.4
Sweden		75.7	77.6	1.9		9.9	8.5	-1.4		67.8	68.1	0.3
Source: Eurostat
¹ Trends in some member states may be affected by changes in methodology
² pp refers to percentage point change
³ Eurozone consists of EU14 states (with the exceptions of Denmark and Sweden), Cyprus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia.
⁴ Definition differs beginning from Q1 2021
⁵ : Not available

Open in Excel: Labour Force Survey Quarter 3 2022 Table 8.11 (XLS 15KB)

Table 8.12 A1 Estimated number of persons aged 15 years and over classified by citizenship and ILO Economic Status

Table 8.13 A2 Number of employees in the Public Sector by sub-sector and in the Private Sector

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Table 8.3 Persons aged 15 years and over classified by Principal Economic Status (PES)
'000
Principal Economic Status		Q3 20	Q2 21	Q3 21	Q4 21	Q1 22	Q2 22	Q3 22
Males
	At work	1,172.7	1,192.3	1,220.3	1,238.6	1,245.0	1,278.5	1,289.9
	Unemployed	133.2	118.9	101.4	93.7	84.7	77.9	80.6
	Student	204.3	221.6	215.0	221.8	224.9	210.9	209.7
	Home duties	20.7	14.4	18.3	15.7	11.7	13.2	9.9
	Retired	291.5	288.9	298.2	296.8	305.9	306.4	311.7
	Others	134.6	136.1	125.0	119.8	121.7	118.5	119.0
	Total males	1,956.9	1,972.1	1,978.0	1,986.4	1,993.9	2,005.5	2,020.8

Females
	At work	974.1	1,021.9	1,060.2	1,059.9	1,071.9	1,094.2	1,102.5
	Unemployed	120.9	99.9	84.3	72.2	77.5	75.8	77.6
	Student	207.1	233.9	216.3	237.7	232.7	218.2	213.3
	Home duties	273.4	215.4	214.1	212.9	194.5	208.5	207.9
	Retired	300.3	317.2	319.1	327.6	336.4	337.1	348.5
	Others	151.4	155.5	155.9	148.5	156.6	160.0	157.8
	Total females	2,027.1	2,043.8	2,050.0	2,058.7	2,069.5	2,093.7	2,107.7

All persons
	At work	2,146.8	2,214.2	2,280.5	2,298.5	2,316.8	2,372.7	2,392.4
	Unemployed	254.1	218.8	185.7	165.9	162.3	153.7	158.2
	Student	411.4	455.4	431.3	459.5	457.5	429.2	423.0
	Home duties	294.0	229.8	232.4	228.5	206.2	221.7	217.8
	Retired	591.7	606.1	617.3	624.5	642.4	643.5	660.2
	Others	286.0	291.6	280.9	268.3	278.3	278.5	276.9
	Total persons	3,984.1	4,015.9	4,028.1	4,045.1	4,063.5	4,099.3	4,128.5
¹The Principal Economic Status (PES) classification is based on a respondent's own subjective assessment - see Background Notes.

Table 8.12A1 Estimated number of persons aged 15 years and over classified by Citizenship and ILO Economic Status^1,2,3
'000
Citizenship		ILO Economic Status				Total
Citizenship		In employment	Unemployed	In labour force	Not in labour force	Total
Q3 22
Irish Citizens		2,075.7	92.0	2,167.8	1,306.9	3,474.7
Non-Irish Citizens		478.6	27.1	505.6	148.2	653.8
of which:
	United Kingdom	61.6	*	65.7	46.5	112.2
	EU14 excl. Irl	71.9	*	75.4	15.4	90.8
	EU15 to EU27	183.4	*	191.0	41.2	232.2
	Other	161.6	[11.8]	173.4	45.1	218.5
Total persons		2,554.3	119.1	2,673.4	1,455.1	4,128.5

Q3 21
Irish Citizens		2,058.4	123.4	2,181.8	1,260.1	3,442.0
Non-Irish Citizens		412.8	25.7	438.5	147.6	586.1
of which:
	United Kingdom	63.6	*	66.7	44.1	110.8
	EU14 excl. Irl	69.7	*	73.0	[9.6]	82.6
	EU15 to EU27	166.8	[13.3]	180.1	45.9	226.0
	Other	112.8	*	118.8	47.9	166.7
Total persons		2,471.2	149.1	2,620.3	1,407.7	4,028.1

Year on year changes
Irish Citizens		17.3	-31.4	-14.1	46.8	32.7
Non-Irish Citizens		65.7	1.4	67.1	0.6	67.7
of which:
	United Kingdom	-2.0	*	-0.9	2.4	1.5
	EU14 excl. Irl	2.2	*	2.5	[5.8]	8.2
	EU15 to EU27	16.6	*	10.9	-4.8	6.2
	Other	48.9	*	54.6	-2.8	51.8
Total persons		83.0	-30.0	53.1	47.4	100.5
¹ Persons whose Citizenship is not stated are included with Irish Citizens
²Parentheses [ ] indicate where there are 30-49 persons in a cell, estimates are considered to have a wider margin of error and should be treated with caution.
³ An asterisk (*) indicates that estimates for numbers of persons or averages where there are less than 30 persons in a cell are not produced as estimates are too small to be considered reliable.

Table 8.13A2 Number of employees in the Public Sector by sub-sector and in the Private Sector
'000
	Q3 19	Q3 20	Q3 21	Q2 22¹	Q3 22²
Civil Service	43.5	44.7	44.7	44.5	:
Defence	9.0	8.8	8.9	9.0	:
Garda Siochána	14.5	14.7	14.7	14.4	:
Education	112.0	109.2	109.6	113.4	:
Regional bodies	35.1	35.2	35.5	35.4	:
Health	137.1	138.8	149.3	155.5	:
Total Public Sector excluding Semi-State bodies	351.3	351.4	362.7	372.2	:

Semi-State bodies	56.4	56.3	56.4	58.3	:

Total Public Sector including Semi-State bodies	407.7	407.7	419.1	430.5	:

Total Private Sector	1,506.2	1,478.2	1,607.0	1,663.3	:
¹Preliminary data
² : Employment data from the Earnings, Hours Worked and Employment Cost Survey (EHECS) data not available at time of release. Updated series will be issued with the next Earnings and Labour Costs quarterly release.

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