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Labour Force Survey Quarter 3 2023

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CSO statistical publication, 23 November 2023, 11am

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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 21	Q2 22	Q3 22	Q4 22	Q1 23	Q2 23	Q3 23
Males
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	136.3	143.4	142.4	154.2	156.7	149.1	150.3
2.	Professionals	257.8	254.2	253.6	256.6	265.4	254.7	268.6
3.	Associate professional and technical	180.0	180.3	187.1	184.9	192.9	200.3	192.3
4.	Administrative and secretarial	56.6	59.2	64.0	59.7	60.1	60.3	65.2
5.	Skilled trades	267.5	291.6	300.0	301.9	289.4	299.5	304.1
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	39.7	46.5	44.5	42.5	43.1	41.3	47.6
7.	Sales and customer service	77.7	69.0	72.9	67.6	70.5	70.3	66.0
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	149.5	168.7	161.5	154.9	162.1	161.4	159.3
9.	Elementary	144.8	140.0	134.5	131.2	136.1	142.3	140.9
	Other/Not stated	[6.9]	[7.3]	11.3	15.0	[8.5]	[6.8]	[9.0]
Total males		1,316.7	1,360.2	1,371.8	1,368.5	1,384.7	1,386.1	1,403.3

Females
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	84.3	82.5	81.3	84.0	82.8	86.7	84.5
2.	Professionals	279.7	303.2	304.3	298.2	316.7	335.4	341.6
3.	Associate professional and technical	137.5	142.6	141.3	158.8	148.0	147.6	145.7
4.	Administrative and secretarial	204.0	203.3	191.4	193.8	196.5	204.7	196.4
5.	Skilled trades	31.8	31.7	28.2	32.2	33.4	39.5	41.1
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	154.6	165.6	164.8	166.5	173.2	167.9	165.1
7.	Sales and customer service	110.9	116.0	115.5	117.7	117.3	118.8	116.3
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	34.9	31.6	35.3	32.1	33.2	33.9	37.2
9.	Elementary	113.2	111.7	109.2	116.3	118.4	118.6	121.7
	Other/Not stated	*	[6.4]	11.2	[6.4]	*	*	*
Total females		1,154.5	1,194.4	1,182.5	1,206.0	1,223.7	1,256.9	1,252.5

All persons
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	220.6	225.8	223.7	238.2	239.5	235.8	234.9
2.	Professionals	537.5	557.3	557.9	554.8	582.1	590.1	610.3
3.	Associate professional and technical	317.6	322.9	328.5	343.7	340.9	347.9	338.0
4.	Administrative and secretarial	260.5	262.5	255.4	253.6	256.5	265.0	261.6
5.	Skilled trades	299.3	323.3	328.1	334.1	322.8	339.0	345.2
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	194.3	212.1	209.3	209.0	216.3	209.2	212.7
7.	Sales and customer service	188.6	185.0	188.4	185.4	187.9	189.0	182.3
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	184.4	200.3	196.8	187.0	195.3	195.3	196.5
9.	Elementary	258.0	251.7	243.7	247.5	254.5	260.9	262.7
	Other/Not stated	[10.4]	13.7	22.5	21.3	12.7	10.7	11.7
Total persons		2,471.2	2,554.6	2,554.3	2,574.5	2,608.5	2,643.0	2,655.9
¹ Estimates for number of persons, where there are less than 30 persons in a cell, are too small to be considered reliable. These estimates are presented with an asterisk (*) in the relevant tables. 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. These cells are presented with parentheses [].

Open in Excel: Labour Force Survey Quarter 3 2023 Table 8.1 (XLS 44KB)

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Table 8.2 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 22	Q2 23	Annual change	Q2 22	Q2 23	Annual change	Q2 22	Q2 23	Annual change
			Q2 23pp ²			Q2 23pp ²			Q2 23pp ²
EU27	70.0	70.6	0.6	6.0	5.8	-0.2	57.7	57.9	0.2
Eurozone ³	69.5	70.3	0.8	6.6	6.3	-0.3	57.5	57.8	0.3

Belgium	66.0	65.9	-0.1	5.6	5.4	-0.2	54.8	54.4	-0.4
Bulgaria ⁵	69.8	70.3	0.5	4.7	4.6	-0.1	56.3	55.5	-0.8
Czech Republic	75.3	75.2	-0.1	2.2	2.6	0.4	59.7	60.0	0.3
Denmark	77.0	76.4	-0.6	4.0	4.6	0.6	63.3	63.0	-0.3
Germany	76.8	77.5	0.7	3.1	3.0	-0.1	61.1	61.3	0.2
Estonia	76.0	76.4	0.4	5.8	6.7	0.9	65.4	66.7	1.3
Ireland	73.5	74.2	0.7	4.5	4.4	-0.1	65.2	65.7	0.5
Greece	61.1	62.4	1.3	12.5	11.2	-1.3	52.6	52.8	0.2
Spain ⁴	64.8	65.8	1.0	12.5	11.6	-0.9	57.9	58.1	0.2
France ⁴	68.2	68.7	0.5	7.1	6.9	-0.2	56.1	56.3	0.2
Croatia ⁵	64.9	66.0	1.1	7.3	5.6	-1.7	52.5	52.2	-0.3
Italy	60.5	61.6	1.1	8.0	7.5	-0.5	49.4	49.9	0.5
Cyprus	72.7	74.3	1.6	6.9	6.0	-0.9	65.1	65.6	0.5
Latvia	71.5	71.8	0.3	6.6	6.4	-0.2	61.1	61.3	0.2
Lithuania	74.4	73.8	-0.6	5.3	6.0	0.7	63.0	62.8	-0.2
Luxembourg	70.3	70.9	0.6	4.5	4.9	0.4	61.6	62.6	1.0
Hungary	74.3	74.7	0.4	3.2	3.9	0.7	60.1	60.9	0.8
Malta	77.5	78.8	1.3	2.9	2.5	-0.4	64.3	65.1	0.8
Netherlands	81.8	82.5	0.7	3.3	3.4	0.1	67.9	68.5	0.6
Austria	74.1	74.1	0.0	4.3	4.8	0.5	61.3	61.5	0.2
Poland	71.4	72.1	0.7	2.6	2.6	0.0	57.4	57.6	0.2
Portugal	71.6	72.6	1.0	5.8	6.2	0.4	58.4	59.3	0.9
Romania ⁶	63.5	63.0	-0.5	5.3	5.4	0.1	52.1	51.4	-0.7
Slovenia	73.1	73.1	0.0	4.2	3.6	-0.6	59.2	59.0	-0.2
Slovakia	71.4	72.0	0.6	6.1	5.7	-0.4	61.5	61.5	0.0
Finland	75.4	75.4	0.0	7.2	8.0	0.8	62.4	62.8	0.4
Sweden	77.7	78.2	0.5	8.5	8.3	-0.2	68.2	68.8	0.6
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 Break in time series from Q1 2023
⁶ : Not available

Open in Excel: Labour Force Survey Quarter 3 2023 Table 8.11 (XLS 14KB)

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 8.2 Persons aged 15 years and over classified by Principal Economic Status (PES)
'000
Principal Economic Status		Q3 21	Q2 22	Q3 22	Q4 22	Q1 23	Q2 23	Q3 23
Males
	At work	1,220.3	1,278.5	1,289.9	1,287.5	1,291.0	1,308.3	1,313.4
	Unemployed	101.4	77.9	80.6	76.4	80.5	83.5	87.8
	Student	215.0	210.9	209.7	219.7	227.1	217.9	213.0
	Home duties	18.3	13.2	9.9	11.7	12.2	11.6	10.9
	Retired	298.2	306.4	311.7	314.8	313.8	314.2	313.9
	Others	125.0	118.5	119.0	124.7	125.2	122.5	131.6
	Total males	1,978.0	2,005.5	2,020.8	2,034.9	2,049.8	2,058.0	2,070.6

Females
	At work	1,060.2	1,094.2	1,102.5	1,109.1	1,117.1	1,158.2	1,155.2
	Unemployed	84.3	75.8	77.6	70.7	76.9	81.0	82.3
	Student	216.3	218.2	213.3	234.7	238.5	222.3	215.2
	Home duties	214.1	208.5	207.9	198.9	198.3	183.2	187.7
	Retired	319.1	337.1	348.5	349.2	347.7	353.1	360.9
	Others	155.9	160.0	157.8	162.3	159.2	154.1	158.5
	Total females	2,050.0	2,093.7	2,107.7	2,124.9	2,137.6	2,152.0	2,159.7

All persons
	At work	2,280.5	2,372.7	2,392.4	2,396.6	2,408.1	2,466.5	2,468.6
	Unemployed	185.7	153.7	158.2	147.1	157.3	164.6	170.0
	Student	431.3	429.2	423.0	454.4	465.6	440.2	428.2
	Home duties	232.4	221.7	217.8	210.6	210.6	194.8	198.7
	Retired	617.3	643.5	660.2	664.1	661.5	667.3	674.7
	Others	280.9	278.5	276.9	287.0	284.4	276.6	290.1
	Total persons	4,028.1	4,099.3	4,128.5	4,159.9	4,187.4	4,210.1	4,230.3
Note: The 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}
'000
Citizenship		ILO Economic Status				Total
Citizenship		In employment	Unemployed	In labour force	Not in labour force	Total
Q3 23
Irish Citizens		2,124.1	99.8	2,223.8	1,286.2	3,510.1
Non-Irish Citizens		531.8	28.8	560.6	159.7	720.3
of which:
	United Kingdom	57.3	*	61.3	50.3	111.6
	EU14 excl. Irl	80.8	*	83.7	15.4	99.1
	EU15 to EU27	193.4	[9.4]	202.8	37.8	240.6
	Other	200.2	[12.6]	212.8	56.1	269.0
Total persons		2,655.9	128.6	2,784.4	1,445.9	4,230.3

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

Year on year changes
Irish Citizens		48.4	7.7	56.1	-20.7	35.4
Non-Irish Citizens		53.2	1.7	55.0	11.5	66.5
of which:
	United Kingdom	-4.3	*	-4.4	3.9	-0.6
	EU14 excl. Irl	8.9	*	8.3	-0.1	8.2
	EU15 to EU27	10.0	*	11.7	-3.3	8.4
	Other	38.6	[0.8]	39.4	11.0	50.4
Total persons		101.6	9.5	111.0	-9.2	101.8
¹ Persons whose Citizenship is not stated are included with Irish Citizens
² Estimates for number of persons, where there are less than 30 persons in a cell, are too small to be considered reliable. These estimates are presented with an asterisk (*) in the relevant tables. 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. These cells are presented with parentheses [].

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

	Q3 20	Q3 21	Q3 22	Q2 23¹	Q3 23
Civil Service	44.7	44.7	44.8	45.0	:
Defence	8.8	8.9	9.0	9.4	:
Garda Siochána	14.7	14.7	14.3	14.3	:
Education	109.2	109.6	108.8	111.2	:
Regional bodies	35.2	35.5	35.6	36.1	:
Health	138.8	149.3	168.0	163.6	:
Total Public Sector excluding Semi-State bodies	351.4	362.7	380.5	379.4	:

Semi-State bodies	56.3	56.4	59.2	62.0	:

Total Public Sector including Semi-State bodies	407.7	419.1	439.7	441.4	:

Total Private Sector	1,478.2	1,607.0	1,660.9	1,750.8	:
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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