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CSO statistical release, 27 July 2016, 11am

Quarterly National Household Survey

QNHS Detailed Employment Series Quarter 1 2010 - Quarter 1 2016

Indicator	Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Change Q1 15 to Q1 16
Total Employed	1,891,900	1,841,800	1,825,000	1,845,600	1,888,200	1,929,500	1,976,500	+ 46,900

Number of persons in employment at 1,976,500 in Q1 2016

Figure 1 Numbers in employment (ILO) in the first Quarters 2010 TO 2016

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The number of persons in employment was 1,976,500 in Q1 2016, an increase of 46,900 (+2.4%) over the year.

Between Q1 2010 and Q1 2016 the number in employment increased by 84,600 (+4.5%). The number employed in Q1 decreased on an annual basis each year from Q1 2010 to Q1 2012, before showing an increase of 20,500 (+1.1%) in the year to Q1 2013 when it stood at 1,845,600. Annual increases in employment were also recorded in the year to Q1 2014 (+42,700 or +2.3%) and in the year to Q1 2015 (+41,300 or +2.2%). See Tables 1, 2 and 3.

Employment Status

The total number of persons classified as self-employed increased by 5.5% from 308,500 in Q1 2010 to 325,500 in Q1 2016. The number of employees increased from 1,569,200 to 1,636,400 (+67,200 or +4.3%) during this time. See Table 4.

The number of employees in the Human health and social work activities sector increased by 14,700 (+6.7%) from Q1 2010 to Q1 2016, increasing from 219,900 to 234,600.Total employment in this sector increased from 234,600 in Q1 2010 to 248,700 in Q1 2016. See Table 4.

The number of self-employed persons in the Skilled trades occupational group increased by 11,400 (+9.2%) between Q1 2010 and Q1 2016. Total employment in this group increased by 7.1% to 318,100 persons in Q1 2016. The largest rate of increase of employment in an occupational group during this period was recorded in the Managers, directors and senior officials group where the number of persons employed increased by 21,600 (+15.2%) from 142,500 in Q1 2010 to 164,100 in Q1 2016. See Table 5 and Figure 2.

Broad Occupational Group	Self Employed	Employees
1	58700	104600
2	40000	316700
3	33400	198800
4	6000	199000
5	135900	177900
6	12800	144600
7	5900	153800
8	25600	123700
9	6300	200900
10	0	16400

KEY
1-	Managers, directors and senior officials
2-	Professional
3-	Associate professional and technical
4-	Administrative and secretarial
5-	Skilled trades
6-	Caring, leisure and other services
7-	Sales and customer service
8-	Process, plant and machine operatives
9-	Elementary
10-	Other/Not stated

Full-time/Part-time Status

Part-time employment increased in ten of the fourteen economic sectors in the year to Q1 2016, with full-time employment also having increased in ten economic sectors. The largest annual increase in part-time employment was in the Administrative and support service activities sector (+4,000 or +20.0%). The Accommodation and food service activities sector recorded the largest annual increase in full-time employment (+8,800 or +11.2%) during this period. See Table 6.

In Q1 2016, the Elementary occupational group had the largest number of part-time employees at 84,500 (40.2%) persons followed by the Sales and customer service group with 72,700 (45.2%) part-time employees. See Table 7.

In Q1 2010, part-time employment accounted for 22.5% (425,100) of total employment. This proportion had risen to 23.1% (456,200) in Q1 2016. See Tables 6 and 7.

Average Usual Hours Worked per Week

The average usual hours worked per week in Q1 2016 was 35.8 hours. Of the fourteen economic sectors, the Agriculture, forestry and fishing sector had the highest average usual hours worked per week at 49.1 hours in Q1 2016 with the Education sector having the lowest at 29.4 hours worked per week in the same period. The overall average usual hours worked per week was 34.9 hours in Q1 2010. See Table 8.

Average usual hours worked per week classified by occupational group showed that Managers, directors and senior officials had the highest usual hours worked per week of 43.0 hours in Q1 2016. The Sales and customer service occupational group had the lowest average hours worked per week of 29.9 hours in the same period. See Table 9.

Self-employed persons had average usual hours worked per week of 44.0 hours in Q1 2016 with employees working 34.6 average usual hours per week. Persons in part-time employment worked an average usual hours of 19.3 hours per week in Q1 2016. See Tables 10 and 11.

Duration of Employment

There were 1,625,500 persons in their current employment for 1 year or more in Q1 2016, with 1,289,000 in their current employment for 48 months and greater. There was an annual increase (+13,100 or +23.9%) in the numbers employed in their current employment for 18-23 months from 54,900 persons in Q1 2015 to 68,000 persons in Q1 2016. See Table 12.

Size of Firm

Medium and large firms (50 persons or more) employed 655,100 persons in Q1 2016 with smaller firms (less than 50 persons) employing 838,600 persons in the same period. It should be noted that size of firm information was not available for just under 250,000 persons in Q1 2016. See Table 13.

Reasons for Part-time Employment

There were 456,200 persons in part-time employment in Q1 2016. The most common reason given for being in part-time employment was Person could not find a full-time job, (31.0% or 141,400 persons). This compares with Q1 2010 when 110,400 or 26.0% of persons in part-time employment gave their reason for being in part-time employment as Person could not find a full-time job. See Table 14.

Permanency of Employment

The number of temporary employees decreased by 8,300 (-6.2%) in the year to Q1 2016 bringing the total number of temporary employees to 126,400 persons. The number of temporary employees as a percentage of total employees (1,636,400) stood at 7.7% in Q1 2016. The comparable figure in Q1 2010 was 8.9% (139,600) of total employees (1,569,200).

In the Education sector there was a decrease of 5,500 (-23.9%) in the number of temporary employees from 23,000 in Q1 2010 to 17,500 in Q1 2016. Temporary employment accounted for 12.1% of total employment in the Education sector in Q1 2016 compared with 16.4% in Q1 2010. See Table 15.

In the year to Q1 2016, the largest rate of increase in permanent employees was seen in the Managers, directors and senior officials occupational group (+8.5% or +8,000). See Table 16.

Temporary employees were categorised by the type of temporary employment and, in Q1 2016, the most common type of temporary employment was Lasted only for a specific duration (44.0% or 55,600) followed by Casual work (35.2% or 44,500). See Table 17.

The most common reason given for being in temporary employment in Q1 2016 was Person could not find a permanent job (50.6% or 64,000). See Table 18.

Supervisory Duties

Out of a total of 1,636,400 employees in Q1 2016, there were 450,100 (27.5%) employees classified as having supervisory duties while 1,165,200 employees were classified as not having supervisory duties. The number of employees classified as having supervisory duties increased by 26,700 (+6.3%) in the year to Q1 2016.The overall number of employees increased by 2.4% (+37,900) over the year. See Table 19.

Show Table 1 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by detailed NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector

Table 1 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by detailed NACE Rev. 2 Economic Sector
							'000
Detailed NACE Rev. 2 Economic Sector	Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16

01 Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities	75.5	77.3	76.4	89.6	103.9	102.5	104.2
02 Forestry and logging	*	[3.0]	*	[3.1]	[3.2]	*	*
03 Fishing and aquaculture	[2.8]	[2.9]	*	[3.4]	[3.4]	[3.4]	*
05 Mining of coal and lignite	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
06 Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
07 Mining of metal ores	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
08 Other mining and quarrying	4.8	4.3	[4.0]	5.6	[4.4]	5.2	[4.3]
09 Mining support service activities	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
10 Manufacture of food products	39.4	44.1	45.6	44.9	46.1	47.1	48.1
11 Manufacture of beverages	6.1	5.4	6.0	6.2	5.3	5.8	[4.9]
12 Manufacture of tobacco products	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
13 Manufacture of textiles	[2.7]	*	[2.5]	[2.6]	[2.8]	[3.4]	*
14 Manufacture of wearing apparel	4.0	[3.2]	[2.9]	[2.9]	[3.3]	[3.5]	*
15 Manufacture of leather and related products	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
16 Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials	6.2	6.6	5.0	5.0	5.1	*	[3.4]
17 Manufacture of paper and paper products	[3.0]	*	*	*	[2.8]	*	*
18 Printing and reproduction of recorded media	8.6	7.8	6.8	8.5	9.5	9.6	6.8
19 Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
20 Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products	[2.4]	[3.8]	[2.9]	[3.3]	*	[3.6]	[4.6]
21 Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations	30.3	32.9	28.0	33.5	33.6	32.5	36.1
22 Manufacture of rubber and plastic products	6.1	4.7	5.6	5.1	4.5	[3.2]	[6.0]
23 Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products	5.2	5.2	6.3	5.4	5.6	6.2	6.0
24 Manufacture of basic metals	[2.9]	[3.0]	4.2	[3.2]	[2.9]	[3.6]	[5.0]
25 Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment	17.0	12.4	13.8	12.6	11.9	13.3	14.2
26 Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products	25.6	22.8	26.1	24.9	24.1	28.1	26.3
27 Manufacture of electrical equipment	*	[3.1]	*	*	*	*	*
28 Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.	27.9	26.7	28.9	31.2	29.6	28.9	29.3
29 Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers	4.0	4.3	[3.3]	[2.7]	[3.7]	[3.0]	*
30 Manufacture of other transport equipment	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
31 Manufacture of furniture	5.7	6.3	4.1	[3.9]	[4.1]	6.6	6.2
32 Other manufacturing	9.0	9.3	7.1	6.7	5.7	6.5	6.6
33 Repair and installation of machinery and equipment	5.7	5.6	5.8	4.9	4.6	6.2	7.1
35 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	13.7	9.7	10.8	9.0	10.3	9.3	11.5
36 Water collection, treatment and supply	[2.3]	[2.8]	[2.4]	*	*	[3.1]	*
37 Sewerage	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
38 Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery	9.4	8.7	7.0	8.0	8.2	7.7	6.4
39 Remediation activities and other waste management services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
41 Construction of buildings	60.1	47.5	45.4	41.2	45.6	55.2	63.4
42 Civil engineering	5.8	7.0	6.2	[3.4]	6.3	6.5	6.4
43 Specialised construction activities	64.6	54.0	51.7	51.7	50.4	60.1	61.4
45 Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	33.6	34.7	34.4	34.1	35.4	41.7	35.9
46 Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles	52.2	48.7	49.7	57.9	55.2	47.2	43.2
47 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles	189.4	187.9	187.2	182.1	177.6	181.6	193.3
49 Land transport and transport via pipelines	50.1	52.4	49.0	46.9	47.7	47.5	50.8
50 Water transport	[2.5]	*	*	*	*	*	*
51 Air transport	9.8	9.1	9.1	9.9	9.2	12.3	9.4
52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation	14.7	13.5	13.9	13.8	14.1	12.9	17.1
53 Postal and courier activities	16.7	17.7	16.9	16.4	15.9	15.8	15.7
55 Accommodation	48.6	35.4	46.5	44.8	48.0	50.3	50.1
56 Food and beverage service activities	82.5	75.3	71.1	75.6	85.7	82.1	92.3
58 Publishing activities	5.0	[3.7]	[3.1]	4.9	5.7	[4.2]	[4.4]
59 Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities	[3.3]	[4.1]	[3.7]	[3.5]	[4.4]	[3.0]	[4.0]
60 Programming and broadcasting activities	4.7	4.2	5.3	[3.9]	[4.3]	[4.9]	[3.2]
61 Telecommunications	20.8	19.8	18.9	18.0	16.1	17.7	15.6
62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities	36.1	36.0	41.1	41.2	43.7	47.1	51.1
63 Information service activities	6.3	4.8	6.4	5.9	6.5	5.0	6.9
64 Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding	64.7	62.3	62.6	65.7	63.1	61.8	60.8
65 Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security	21.2	20.8	19.3	19.6	20.7	20.4	21.3
66 Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities	9.8	8.4	7.9	5.6	5.4	7.3	7.4
68 Real estate activities	8.7	8.3	11.2	8.7	8.5	12.8	11.3
69 Legal and accounting activities	26.7	25.8	21.7	26.5	28.8	27.5	26.6
70 Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities	6.6	7.1	6.3	6.3	6.5	5.1	7.6
71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis	26.7	22.7	27.9	27.5	31.3	30.7	28.8
72 Scientific research and development	4.6	6.1	4.5	5.4	6.2	7.1	[6.3]
73 Advertising and market research	6.0	6.2	8.0	7.2	7.3	5.5	7.0
74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities	27.5	33.7	26.7	27.8	31.5	30.9	30.2
75 Veterinary activities	4.7	*	[2.7]	[3.1]	[4.1]	*	[3.8]
77 Rental and leasing activities	5.3	5.4	5.2	4.8	5.4	4.9	[5.0]
78 Employment activities	7.2	6.7	7.7	6.6	6.1	6.0	6.1
79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation service and related activities	6.0	6.0	5.6	5.4	6.8	6.3	[5.0]
80 Security and investigation activities	10.8	10.8	10.1	9.8	10.7	10.4	11.0
81 Services to buildings and landscape activities	21.4	25.1	23.5	23.2	20.3	24.0	28.6
82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities	10.8	10.9	10.4	9.7	13.3	10.5	12.4
84 Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	105.1	104.5	99.5	95.2	96.4	97.8	98.5
85 Education	148.1	148.2	146.6	147.5	150.3	154.2	153.9
86 Human health activities	154.8	150.7	154.9	156.5	153.1	146.0	154.7
87 Residential care activities	22.1	25.6	23.4	26.7	26.1	28.8	25.3
88 Social work activities without accommodation	57.8	58.8	61.3	64.3	65.1	71.7	68.6
90 Creative, arts and entertainment activities	12.6	13.8	12.9	12.4	13.4	14.5	16.3
91 Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities	3.8	[4.0]	[3.2]	[4.0]	[3.4]	5.0	[4.4]
92 Gambling and betting activities	4.0	4.5	5.9	5.9	[4.2]	[4.4]	[5.7]
93 Sports activities and amusement and recreation activities	19.6	22.4	20.0	19.6	18.9	19.0	22.6
94 Activities of membership organisations	13.9	17.4	14.2	13.8	11.2	14.8	11.3
95 Repair of computers and personal and household goods	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
96 Other personal service activities	28.8	27.2	28.6	30.5	32.3	30.9	32.3
97 Activities of households as employers of domestic personnel	8.2	7.9	8.9	7.7	6.7	6.9	8.3
99 Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies	*	*	[3.1]	[4.3]	7.0	[5.2]	*
Not stated	8.1	6.9	*	*	*	*	[6.3]
Total persons	1,891.9	1,841.8	1,825.0	1,845.6	1,888.2	1,929.5	1,976.5

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Table 2 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by detailed occupational group (UK SOC2010)
							'000
Detailed occupational group	Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16

1 Managers, directors and senior officials	142.5	141.1	147.1	149.8	154.8	156.3	164.1
11 Corporate managers and directors	96.1	93.3	102.6	103.4	105.4	111.3	117.9
111 Chief Executives and senior officials	*	*	*	[3.5]	[2.7]	*	*
112 Production managers and directors	11.7	12.9	13.5	12.0	14.4	15.9	16.6
113 Functional managers and directors	46.3	46.9	55.3	58.0	59.6	59.0	59.8
115 Financial institution managers and directors	5.6	6.4	6.1	5.2	4.7	[4.8]	7.1
116 Managers and directors in transport and logistics	8.2	7.2	7.1	7.4	6.6	6.7	6.5
117 Senior officers in protective services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
118 Health and social services managers and directors	[2.1]	*	*	*	*	*	*
119 Managers and directors in retail and wholesale	18.5	15.6	15.2	14.1	15.3	19.2	21.4
12 Other managers and proprietors	46.4	47.8	44.5	46.3	49.4	45.0	46.2
121 Managers and proprietors in agriculture related services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
122 Managers and proprietors in hospitality and leisure services	23.1	21.1	19.2	18.2	21.0	18.3	21.1
124 Managers and proprietors in health and care services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
125 Managers and proprietors in other services	20.5	24.0	23.0	24.6	24.1	23.1	22.6
2 Professional	341.8	339.5	341.5	354.3	351.0	345.2	357.2
21 Science, research, engineering and technology professionals	74.0	71.9	72.6	74.3	78.0	72.8	80.3
211 Natural and social science professionals	13.0	11.5	9.5	10.2	10.3	8.8	8.8
212 Engineering professionals	19.9	18.2	20.7	17.6	18.3	18.2	18.2
213 Information technology and telecommunications professionals	38.7	39.2	39.5	44.3	47.2	43.1	49.8
214 Conservation and environment professionals	*	*	[2.5]	*	*	*	*
215 Research and development managers	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
22 Health professionals	88.3	87.7	91.3	92.1	87.5	89.6	82.7
221 Health professionals	24.4	22.3	24.8	25.6	25.4	25.6	23.6
222 Therapy professionals	7.3	7.6	9.6	8.2	6.8	9.2	7.0
223 Nursing and midwifery professionals	56.7	57.7	56.9	58.2	55.3	54.8	52.2
23 Teaching and educational professionals	89.8	96.2	93.8	99.0	96.4	97.5	98.3
231 Teaching and educational professionals	89.8	96.2	93.8	99.0	96.4	97.5	98.3
24 Business, media and public service professionals	89.7	83.8	83.7	88.9	89.1	85.2	96.0
241 Legal professionals	11.0	11.3	13.2	10.7	10.0	9.3	12.8
242 Business, research and administrative professionals	49.3	45.9	44.6	50.0	52.1	50.5	50.8
243 Architects, town planners and surveyors	10.2	7.8	9.7	9.4	8.8	8.3	9.5
244 Welfare professionals	7.0	6.3	7.1	6.3	7.1	5.3	8.4
245 Librarians and related professionals	[2.8]	[2.5]	*	[3.3]	*	*	*
246 Quality and regulatory professionals	[2.8]	[4.0]	[4.0]	4.3	[3.5]	[4.0]	[5.6]
247 Media professionals	6.6	5.9	[3.4]	4.9	5.4	5.0	7.0
3 Associate professional and technical	203.7	210.3	220.0	213.9	220.7	226.1	232.6
31 Science, engineering and technology associate professionals	27.9	30.5	36.5	33.0	34.4	37.8	37.2
311 Science, engineering and production technicians	14.5	17.5	21.1	19.4	18.2	19.8	20.3
312 Draughtspersons and related architectural technicians	[2.3]	[2.6]	[2.9]	*	[2.8]	*	[4.1]
313 Information technology technicians	11.1	10.4	12.5	11.1	13.4	15.4	12.7
32 Health and social care associate professionals	17.2	18.4	16.5	16.5	17.4	19.0	17.6
321 Health associate professionals	7.8	7.4	8.3	8.2	9.0	9.4	9.9
323 Welfare and housing associate professionals	9.4	11.0	8.3	8.3	8.4	9.6	7.7
33 Protective service occupations	26.4	31.7	27.1	24.9	25.6	23.6	23.5
331 Protective service occupations	26.4	31.7	27.1	24.9	25.6	23.6	23.5
34 Culture, media and sports occupations	28.4	28.6	26.7	29.2	29.8	31.4	32.0
341 Artistic, literary and media occupations	14.1	15.8	14.4	14.5	16.1	16.7	16.2
342 Design occupations	5.4	5.5	5.5	7.0	5.9	6.9	6.5
344 Sports and fitness occupations	8.9	7.3	6.8	7.7	7.8	7.8	9.3
35 Business and public service associate professionals	103.7	101.2	113.2	110.3	113.4	114.3	122.3
351 Transport associate professionals	[2.2]	*	[2.6]	[2.6]	*	*	*
352 Legal associate professionals	*	*	*	*	[2.7]	*	*
353 Business, finance and related associate professionals	25.6	25.7	30.5	28.8	29.3	30.7	34.3
354 Sales, marketing and related associate professionals	52.0	50.0	54.2	53.9	54.2	53.5	57.1
355 Conservation and environmental associate professionals	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
356 Public services and other associate professionals	21.5	21.8	23.6	22.8	24.8	24.5	25.4
4 Administrative and secreterial	243.2	221.7	207.9	201.8	208.8	206.6	206.8
41 Administrative occupations	195.4	175.4	162.7	161.6	167.2	167.2	164.7
411 Administrative occupations: Government and related organisations	51.3	42.6	41.9	37.4	37.0	34.8	33.5
412 Administrative occupations: Finance	63.9	55.9	50.5	49.4	48.6	50.2	46.7
413 Administrative occupations: Records	16.7	17.3	16.8	17.0	17.6	15.1	18.5
415 Other administrative occupations	57.4	52.9	46.8	51.8	56.2	58.5	57.2
416 Administrative occupations: Office managers and supervisors	6.1	6.7	6.7	6.0	7.8	8.6	8.7
42 Secretarial and related occupations	47.8	46.2	45.2	40.1	41.5	39.4	42.1
421 Secretarial and related occupations	47.8	46.2	45.2	40.1	41.5	39.4	42.1
5 Skilled trades	296.9	267.6	261.0	269.2	296.2	312.1	318.1
51 Skilled agricultural and related trades	76.1	74.0	73.1	85.4	95.4	97.7	100.1
511 Agricultural and related trades	76.1	74.0	73.1	85.4	95.4	97.7	100.1
52 Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades	91.4	85.3	84.2	85.0	90.4	92.1	94.2
521 Metal forming, welding and related trades	8.5	6.7	7.3	7.6	9.3	10.1	11.7
522 Metal machining, fitting and instrument making trades	23.4	19.8	22.5	24.9	26.1	28.8	27.6
523 Vehicle trades	18.0	18.0	18.3	17.9	20.4	20.8	16.2
524 Electrical and electronic trades	39.9	39.9	34.4	32.7	33.1	30.6	36.6
525 Skilled Metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
53 Skilled construction and building trades	75.1	58.0	52.9	51.0	55.6	65.3	65.0
531 Construction and building trades	56.3	43.5	40.7	38.9	40.9	48.2	47.0
532 Building finishing trades	15.1	12.3	10.1	9.4	11.5	14.0	14.2
533 Construction and building trades supervisors	3.7	*	*	[2.8]	[3.1]	[3.2]	[3.8]
54 Textiles, printing and other skilled trades	54.2	50.3	50.7	47.8	54.9	57.0	58.8
541 Textiles and garments trades	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
542 Printing trades	4.9	[3.9]	[3.8]	4.4	[3.8]	[3.0]	*
543 Food preparation and hospitality trades	39.9	36.5	39.0	36.5	43.5	44.6	46.7
544 Other skilled trades	7.9	8.6	5.5	5.5	5.3	6.8	6.9
6 Caring, leisure and other services	146.4	145.9	145.1	143.0	142.9	157.3	159.1
61 Caring personal service occupations	103.7	103.4	102.8	102.5	99.2	111.5	112.8
612 Childcare and related personal services	36.3	37.0	38.5	35.8	37.0	38.5	39.6
613 Animal care and control services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
614 Caring personal services	65.6	64.4	62.4	65.0	60.8	70.8	70.8
62 Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations	42.7	42.5	42.2	40.6	43.7	45.8	46.4
621 Leisure and travel services	8.6	8.3	8.3	6.3	8.0	8.1	7.0
622 Hairdressers and related services	21.8	20.4	20.5	20.7	22.1	22.5	22.0
623 Housekeeping and related services	11.8	13.3	12.7	12.8	12.5	14.0	16.5
624 Cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
7 Sales and customer service	158.7	158.7	157.7	162.0	154.4	162.4	161.0
71 Sales occupations	141.8	143.1	143.3	145.6	134.4	140.7	140.6
711 Sales assistants and retail cashiers	124.8	126.5	128.2	129.9	119.4	124.3	125.6
712 Sales related occupations	13.3	13.3	11.4	12.1	11.9	11.7	9.6
713 Sales supervisors	[3.8]	[3.3]	[3.6]	[3.6]	[3.1]	[4.7]	[5.5]
72 Customer service occupations	16.9	15.6	14.4	16.4	19.9	21.6	20.3
721 Customer service occupations	14.5	12.0	12.6	13.7	15.7	17.8	17.1
722 Customer service managers and supervisors	*	[3.6]	*	[2.7]	[4.3]	[3.8]	*
8 Process, plant and machine operatives	130.6	150.7	145.9	146.5	140.9	142.2	149.8
81 Process, plant and machine operatives	53.2	72.3	73.9	72.0	69.6	67.7	70.0
811 Process Operatives	16.3	30.1	25.2	22.6	21.4	22.3	20.2
812 Plant and machine operatives	9.2	5.8	7.9	6.5	8.6	7.1	7.7
813 Assemblers and routine operatives	20.9	26.4	30.4	33.1	29.5	28.5	27.5
814 Construction operatives	6.9	10.0	10.4	9.7	10.1	9.8	14.6
82 Transport and mobile machine drivers and operatives	77.3	78.4	72.0	74.6	71.3	74.5	79.8
821 Road transport drivers	61.5	62.5	57.3	59.9	56.9	58.7	64.5
822 Mobile machine drivers and operatives	10.6	10.8	10.2	11.0	9.6	11.9	11.4
823 Other drivers and transport operatives	5.2	5.1	4.5	[3.7]	4.8	[4.0]	[3.9]
9 Elementary	222.1	198.5	192.5	200.2	211.1	211.2	210.2
91 Elementary trades and related occupations	72.0	47.3	46.1	51.6	53.6	60.8	53.7
911 Elementary agricultural occupations	10.7	13.6	10.3	13.7	15.9	11.6	11.0
912 Elementary construction occupations	45.7	23.1	24.1	27.5	28.9	36.6	32.5
913 Elementary process plant occupations	15.3	10.0	11.2	9.5	8.4	11.9	9.7
92 Elementary administration and service occupations	150.2	151.2	146.4	148.6	157.5	150.3	156.5
921 Elementary administration occupations	11.6	13.0	10.1	10.7	10.2	8.2	8.9
923 Elementary cleaning occupations	33.6	37.5	38.1	37.8	40.1	38.2	37.2
924 Elementary security occupations	14.1	14.2	15.0	12.6	13.7	13.7	13.9
925 Elementary sales occupations	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
926 Elementary storage occupations	19.5	23.3	20.3	18.9	20.6	19.4	19.1
927 Other elementary services occupations	70.4	62.3	61.7	67.1	72.0	69.6	76.7
Other/Not stated	6.1	7.8	6.2	4.8	7.5	10.3	17.4
Total persons	1,891.9	1,841.8	1,825.0	1,845.6	1,888.2	1,929.5	1,976.5

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Table 3 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by NACE Rev. 2 Economic Sector and occupational group (UK SOC2010)
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NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector/Occupational group			Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	*	*	*	[2.6]	[3.7]	[2.7]	*
		2. Professional	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		3. Associate professional and technical	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		4. Administrative and secreterial	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		5. Skilled trades	66.1	63.3	62.6	74.6	84.9	87.0	88.4
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	9.4	11.6	10.6	12.5	14.7	11.4	12.4
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	80.5	83.2	80.5	96.2	110.5	107.8	109.3
B-F	Total Industry	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	22.8	24.4	25.5	27.1	26.5	28.6	32.4
		2. Professional	29.6	25.8	26.7	26.6	28.2	28.5	27.7
		3. Associate professional and technical	33.0	34.2	39.8	34.8	36.2	39.2	41.0
		4. Administrative and secreterial	25.2	21.7	22.1	21.0	22.7	22.2	22.0
		5. Skilled trades	140.2	115.2	107.5	104.6	109.8	123.4	130.1
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	[4.0]
		7. Sales and customer service	8.0	8.0	5.5	9.8	8.4	8.0	7.7
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	61.8	77.8	74.1	73.9	68.5	70.5	73.0
		9. Elementary	54.8	37.1	35.9	35.0	37.2	45.1	40.5
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	377.1	346.9	339.3	334.3	339.3	368.2	381.4
B-E	Industry	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	17.3	19.2	19.7	20.1	19.5	20.0	23.2
		2. Professional	26.1	22.8	24.4	24.4	25.4	25.8	23.8
		3. Associate professional and technical	29.4	30.5	34.3	31.4	32.7	35.6	35.4
		4. Administrative and secreterial	18.0	16.5	17.9	16.8	17.5	16.8	17.0
		5. Skilled trades	59.2	51.1	49.2	48.6	49.6	53.4	57.3
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	6.3	7.2	4.6	9.1	7.4	7.2	6.6
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	50.3	66.1	61.1	61.9	57.8	57.2	56.1
		9. Elementary	38.9	23.1	23.2	24.7	25.6	28.3	28.2
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	246.5	238.4	236.0	238.0	237.0	246.3	250.0
F	Construction	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	5.4	5.2	5.8	7.0	7.0	8.7	9.2
		2. Professional	[3.5]	[3.0]	*	*	[2.8]	*	[3.9]
		3. Associate professional and technical	3.6	[3.6]	5.5	[3.4]	[3.5]	[3.6]	[5.7]
		4. Administrative and secreterial	7.2	5.1	[4.2]	4.2	5.2	5.3	[5.1]
		5. Skilled trades	81.0	64.1	58.3	55.9	60.3	70.0	72.8
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	11.5	11.8	13.0	12.0	10.7	13.3	16.9
		9. Elementary	15.9	13.9	12.7	10.3	11.6	16.8	12.4
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	130.6	108.5	103.3	96.3	102.3	121.8	131.3
G-U	Total Services	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	117.7	114.3	119.5	119.9	124.6	124.4	129.8
		2. Professional	311.4	312.2	314.0	327.1	321.6	315.7	329.0
		3. Associate professional and technical	169.5	174.6	179.4	177.7	183.0	185.0	189.9
		4. Administrative and secreterial	215.7	197.5	184.9	179.2	184.5	182.8	183.2
		5. Skilled trades	89.8	88.6	90.9	90.1	101.2	101.2	99.6
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	144.8	143.8	143.0	141.3	141.3	154.8	154.2
		7. Sales and customer service	150.3	150.4	152.0	152.0	145.7	153.9	153.1
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	67.2	70.4	69.6	70.2	70.2	69.3	75.0
		9. Elementary	156.8	149.3	145.6	152.4	159.0	154.5	157.3
		Other/Not stated	[2.9]	[3.8]	[4.4]	[3.5]	6.6	8.9	8.4
		Total	1,426.2	1,404.8	1,403.3	1,413.5	1,437.7	1,450.5	1,479.6
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	41.6	41.0	42.9	43.1	42.5	42.4	41.7
		2. Professional	8.6	8.7	9.0	8.7	9.3	7.2	9.0
		3. Associate professional and technical	25.7	22.5	24.4	24.9	24.8	24.2	26.9
		4. Administrative and secreterial	19.4	19.0	16.8	21.4	21.5	17.0	20.7
		5. Skilled trades	25.3	24.6	24.3	26.2	25.4	28.8	21.7
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	120.9	123.1	120.8	117.3	112.8	119.6	120.7
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	11.8	11.5	13.8	13.9	11.9	11.0	12.5
		9. Elementary	20.5	18.7	17.4	16.3	18.3	18.4	18.1
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	275.3	271.3	271.3	274.1	268.2	270.5	272.5
H	Transportation and storage	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	6.7	6.4	6.3	5.1	6.0	6.1	7.6
		2. Professional	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		3. Associate professional and technical	5.0	5.1	5.1	5.2	5.4	5.2	[5.3]
		4. Administrative and secreterial	11.8	11.9	10.8	9.3	9.3	10.0	9.1
		5. Skilled trades	[3.4]	[3.6]	[4.0]	[3.5]	[4.2]	[3.0]	[3.9]
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	[3.4]	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	[3.1]	[3.1]	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	43.9	45.4	42.4	43.1	42.8	44.2	47.6
		9. Elementary	15.5	16.3	14.7	16.1	15.5	14.3	15.5
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	93.7	94.6	90.2	88.8	89.5	90.7	95.0
I	Accommodation and food service activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	22.9	19.2	19.2	18.0	18.7	18.0	21.9
		2. Professional	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		3. Associate professional and technical	*	*	*	*	[3.5]	[3.8]	[4.0]
		4. Administrative and secreterial	7.8	4.7	6.5	6.3	5.4	7.2	6.4
		5. Skilled trades	22.9	20.1	22.1	19.1	26.9	26.9	31.8
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	[3.5]	[3.6]	4.8	[3.7]	[4.2]	[4.6]	[5.0]
		7. Sales and customer service	5.9	[4.0]	6.0	7.1	6.8	5.8	[4.8]
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	64.3	55.2	54.9	60.5	65.4	63.3	66.0
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	131.1	110.7	117.6	120.3	133.8	132.3	142.4
J	Information and communication	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	7.2	6.8	8.6	7.5	6.9	6.8	9.0
		2. Professional	26.8	28.5	26.9	29.6	32.3	30.3	37.9
		3. Associate professional and technical	18.2	15.4	20.6	20.0	19.6	22.2	18.5
		4. Administrative and secreterial	5.6	5.3	5.3	4.4	5.3	5.6	5.4
		5. Skilled trades	9.3	8.9	8.2	6.2	7.5	6.8	7.6
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	5.4	[3.5]	5.9	6.6	4.8	5.4	[3.2]
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	76.1	72.6	78.5	77.4	80.7	81.8	85.2
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	11.5	12.7	12.3	12.6	12.8	13.1	14.0
		2. Professional	14.0	13.1	17.3	19.1	20.0	18.3	21.0
		3. Associate professional and technical	20.9	21.0	25.0	23.2	20.1	24.0	26.0
		4. Administrative and secreterial	50.4	42.6	37.6	35.7	34.2	34.1	27.7
		5. Skilled trades	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	5.2	6.7	5.6	6.3	6.2	7.3	8.0
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	104.4	99.7	101.0	99.7	97.8	102.3	100.7
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	5.6	5.3	6.3	7.2	9.3	8.4	6.7
		2. Professional	53.8	50.4	48.8	51.4	51.6	47.8	52.3
		3. Associate professional and technical	15.4	20.0	18.5	18.5	20.3	18.5	19.4
		4. Administrative and secreterial	14.5	12.8	10.6	10.5	14.8	15.1	13.4
		5. Skilled trades	6.7	7.5	8.4	10.3	12.0	11.3	9.7
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	*	[2.7]	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	102.8	103.6	98.0	103.9	115.7	109.3	110.3
N	Administrative and support service activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	3.7	4.0	[3.9]	5.1	[4.3]	5.2	[4.3]
		2. Professional	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		3. Associate professional and technical	5.3	5.5	5.8	5.8	7.5	5.1	5.5
		4. Administrative and secreterial	11.8	10.8	9.6	9.8	10.0	10.7	9.6
		5. Skilled trades	5.6	7.3	6.4	7.2	7.0	6.4	8.1
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	[3.5]	5.2	[4.7]	*	[3.3]	[3.3]	[3.7]
		7. Sales and customer service	5.1	5.0	[3.3]	[2.9]	[4.1]	[4.3]	6.5
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	[2.8]	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	21.7	22.4	23.8	23.1	21.8	23.6	25.4
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	61.5	64.9	62.5	59.5	62.5	62.1	68.2
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	5.6	4.2	[3.4]	5.3	4.4	5.5	6.1
		2. Professional	8.2	8.2	9.2	10.5	9.1	10.7	9.5
		3. Associate professional and technical	33.8	37.3	34.5	33.4	34.9	33.1	34.5
		4. Administrative and secreterial	47.9	45.8	41.4	35.7	38.6	39.7	37.0
		5. Skilled trades	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	4.4	4.1	5.2	[4.0]	[3.7]	[2.7]	[4.1]
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	105.1	104.5	99.5	95.2	96.4	97.8	98.5
P	Education	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	*	*	*	*	[3.1]	[3.6]	*
		2. Professional	95.6	97.6	94.1	97.8	95.1	97.6	98.0
		3. Associate professional and technical	9.6	10.2	9.4	8.9	11.5	9.9	9.4
		4. Administrative and secreterial	12.8	10.3	10.5	9.4	10.2	9.7	12.1
		5. Skilled trades	*	*	*	*	*	[3.8]	*
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	19.5	19.4	20.8	20.7	19.0	20.5	20.0
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	5.5	5.4	5.8	5.1	6.7	6.0	6.7
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	148.1	148.2	146.6	147.5	150.3	154.2	153.9
Q	Human health and social work activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	5.7	5.4	7.2	6.7	8.6	6.5	7.7
		2. Professional	90.4	91.7	95.0	95.2	90.8	90.8	88.0
		3. Associate professional and technical	17.3	17.6	17.4	18.0	18.2	19.1	19.1
		4. Administrative and secreterial	22.1	21.9	24.0	25.1	25.1	23.1	29.1
		5. Skilled trades	6.0	4.4	5.9	5.9	5.6	4.8	[3.9]
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	77.9	76.7	74.8	76.7	76.0	86.3	85.8
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	[3.0]	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	[2.7]	*	*	[2.8]	*	*
		9. Elementary	11.7	12.5	11.1	14.8	14.9	12.2	10.6
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	234.6	235.1	239.6	247.5	244.3	246.5	248.7
R-U	Other NACE activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	5.6	7.4	7.4	7.0	8.0	8.8	8.0
		2. Professional	9.3	9.4	8.9	9.9	8.4	8.1	8.9
		3. Associate professional and technical	16.1	17.7	16.2	17.6	17.2	19.9	21.4
		4. Administrative and secreterial	11.7	12.4	11.9	11.4	10.1	10.6	12.6
		5. Skilled trades	6.2	8.6	7.2	7.4	7.6	6.0	6.7
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	32.3	31.6	31.3	30.9	31.4	31.7	34.7
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	[3.6]	[3.4]	*	[3.0]	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	9.0	9.1	8.8	8.5	7.7	8.6	7.0
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	[4.6]	[5.0]	*
		Total	93.5	99.4	98.5	99.8	98.6	103.0	104.1
Not stated		1. Managers, directors and senior officials	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		2. Professional	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		3. Associate professional and technical	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		4. Administrative and secreterial	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		5. Skilled trades	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Other/Not stated	[2.5]	*	*	*	*	*	[6.0]
		Total	8.1	6.9	*	*	*	*	[6.3]
All persons		1. Managers, directors and senior officials	142.5	141.1	147.1	149.8	154.8	156.3	164.1
		2. Professional	341.8	339.5	341.5	354.3	351.0	345.2	357.2
		3. Associate professional and technical	203.7	210.3	220.0	213.9	220.7	226.1	232.6
		4. Administrative and secreterial	243.2	221.7	207.9	201.8	208.8	206.6	206.8
		5. Skilled trades	296.9	267.6	261.0	269.2	296.2	312.1	318.1
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	146.4	145.9	145.1	143.0	142.9	157.3	159.1
		7. Sales and customer service	158.7	158.7	157.7	162.0	154.4	162.4	161.0
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	130.6	150.7	145.9	146.5	140.9	142.2	149.8
		9. Elementary	222.1	198.5	192.5	200.2	211.1	211.2	210.2
		Other/Not stated	6.1	7.8	6.2	4.8	7.5	10.3	17.4
		Total persons	1,891.9	1,841.8	1,825.0	1,845.6	1,888.2	1,929.5	1,976.5

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NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector/Employment status			Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Self-employed (with paid employees)	6.0	5.1	5.3	7.7	7.4	8.1	9.6
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	57.1	54.5	55.0	61.8	73.1	71.9	70.4
		Total self employed	63.0	59.6	60.3	69.5	80.5	80.1	80.1
		Employee	12.6	18.2	16.0	20.0	23.8	23.1	22.9
		Assisting relative	4.8	5.4	4.3	6.7	6.3	4.7	6.3
		Total	80.5	83.2	80.5	96.2	110.5	107.8	109.3
B-F	Total Industry	Self-employed (with paid employees)	25.5	18.4	21.0	19.2	17.7	20.9	19.4
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	46.5	40.5	36.9	41.2	41.7	43.9	48.9
		Total self employed	72.0	59.0	58.0	60.4	59.4	64.8	68.3
		Employee	302.9	286.8	279.4	272.7	278.0	301.8	311.7
		Assisting relative	[2.2]	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	377.1	346.9	339.3	334.3	339.3	368.2	381.4
B-E	Industry	Self-employed (with paid employees)	8.5	7.1	10.4	8.6	7.4	6.7	6.5
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	14.0	10.6	10.1	12.5	13.3	13.3	15.2
		Total self employed	22.5	17.8	20.6	21.1	20.7	20.0	21.7
		Employee	222.8	220.3	214.5	216.4	215.4	225.9	227.6
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	246.5	238.4	236.0	238.0	237.0	246.3	250.0
F	Construction	Self-employed (with paid employees)	17.0	11.3	10.6	10.6	10.2	14.2	12.9
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	32.5	29.9	26.8	28.7	28.4	30.6	33.7
		Total self employed	49.5	41.2	37.4	39.3	38.7	44.8	46.6
		Employee	80.2	66.6	64.9	56.3	62.5	75.9	84.2
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	130.6	108.5	103.3	96.3	102.3	121.8	131.3
G-U	Total Services	Self-employed (with paid employees)	69.0	68.3	65.1	61.3	62.2	60.4	63.4
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	104.2	106.9	107.5	112.1	116.2	112.9	113.4
		Total self employed	173.2	175.2	172.6	173.4	178.4	173.3	176.8
		Employee	1,245.8	1,224.6	1,225.7	1,233.2	1,253.1	1,271.2	1,295.9
		Assisting relative	7.2	5.0	4.9	6.9	6.1	6.0	6.8
		Total	1,426.2	1,404.8	1,403.3	1,413.5	1,437.7	1,450.5	1,479.6
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	Self-employed (with paid employees)	20.5	19.9	19.2	17.2	17.1	17.7	18.1
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	15.7	17.3	15.0	17.3	19.2	16.7	13.4
		Total self employed	36.1	37.2	34.2	34.5	36.2	34.4	31.6
		Employee	237.2	233.0	235.9	237.7	230.7	234.9	239.2
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	275.3	271.3	271.3	274.1	268.2	270.5	272.5
H	Transportation and storage	Self-employed (with paid employees)	3.9	4.8	3.9	[3.6]	[3.5]	[3.6]	[4.7]
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	20.6	19.6	19.8	17.6	18.9	18.9	18.6
		Total self employed	24.5	24.4	23.7	21.2	22.4	22.5	23.3
		Employee	68.6	70.0	66.2	66.9	66.4	67.8	71.3
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	93.7	94.6	90.2	88.8	89.5	90.7	95.0
I	Accommodation and food service activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	10.8	10.4	10.3	7.0	9.1	8.3	9.8
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	5.0	[3.8]	4.0	5.0	4.8	[5.0]	5.2
		Total self employed	15.8	14.1	14.4	12.0	14.0	13.2	15.0
		Employee	113.9	95.7	102.2	107.6	119.0	118.3	126.2
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	131.1	110.7	117.6	120.3	133.8	132.3	142.4
J	Information and communication	Self-employed (with paid employees)	[2.2]	[2.7]	[3.6]	*	[2.9]	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	7.3	8.2	8.2	8.3	8.6	8.5	9.1
		Total self employed	9.5	10.9	11.8	10.9	11.5	10.2	10.8
		Employee	66.4	61.8	66.7	66.2	69.2	71.4	74.5
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	76.1	72.6	78.5	77.4	80.7	81.8	85.2
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	[2.6]	[3.2]	[2.9]	[3.2]	[2.7]	[3.2]	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	3.9	5.1	5.6	4.6	[4.1]	5.6	5.6
		Total self employed	6.4	8.2	8.5	7.8	6.8	8.8	8.1
		Employee	97.6	91.5	92.4	91.8	90.8	93.2	92.4
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	104.4	99.7	101.0	99.7	97.8	102.3	100.7
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	12.2	11.7	8.6	10.1	10.8	10.4	11.2
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	16.8	18.0	20.5	21.8	21.2	20.0	18.7
		Total self employed	29.0	29.7	29.0	31.8	32.1	30.4	29.9
		Employee	73.5	73.3	68.7	71.6	83.4	78.4	79.8
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	102.8	103.6	98.0	103.9	115.7	109.3	110.3
N	Administrative and support service activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	[3.2]	[3.0]	[3.3]	[2.7]	*	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	5.0	5.1	5.8	6.2	6.1	[4.3]	6.0
		Total self employed	8.2	8.2	9.1	8.9	8.7	6.3	8.3
		Employee	53.1	56.2	53.2	50.6	53.5	55.6	59.7
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	61.5	64.9	62.5	59.5	62.5	62.1	68.2
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total self employed	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employee	104.3	103.8	98.8	93.8	95.5	96.6	96.9
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	105.1	104.5	99.5	95.2	96.4	97.8	98.5
P	Education	Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	5.9	6.5	5.2	5.8	5.7	5.4	6.7
		Total self employed	7.7	8.1	6.5	8.4	8.2	8.0	8.3
		Employee	140.3	140.1	140.0	139.1	141.8	146.1	145.2
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	148.1	148.2	146.6	147.5	150.3	154.2	153.9
Q	Human health and social work activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	5.1	5.0	6.2	6.1	4.9	4.8	[4.5]
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	8.9	6.8	8.4	7.3	7.8	8.1	8.2
		Total self employed	13.9	11.8	14.6	13.4	12.7	12.9	12.7
		Employee	219.9	222.3	223.8	232.4	230.3	232.4	234.6
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	234.6	235.1	239.6	247.5	244.3	246.5	248.7
R-U	Other NACE activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	6.6	5.8	5.6	6.2	5.8	6.1	6.6
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	14.7	16.1	14.6	17.0	19.2	19.4	20.6
		Total self employed	21.2	21.9	20.1	23.2	25.0	25.4	27.2
		Employee	70.9	76.9	77.8	75.6	72.6	76.7	76.0
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	93.5	99.4	98.5	99.8	98.6	103.0	104.1
Not stated		Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total self employed	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employee	7.8	6.2	*	*	*	*	[5.9]
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	8.1	6.9	*	*	*	*	[6.3]
All persons		Self-employed (with paid employees)	100.5	92.0	91.4	88.2	87.2	89.6	92.5
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	208.0	202.3	199.5	215.3	231.1	229.2	233.0
		Total self employed	308.5	294.3	290.9	303.4	318.4	318.8	325.5
		Employee	1,569.2	1,535.9	1,523.0	1,527.3	1,555.5	1,598.6	1,636.4
		Assisting relative	14.2	11.7	11.2	14.9	14.3	12.2	14.5
		Total	1,891.9	1,841.8	1,825.0	1,845.6	1,888.2	1,929.5	1,976.5

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Occupational group/Employment status		Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16
a. Managers, directors and senior officials	Self-employed (with paid employees)	32.8	33.0	39.4	38.6	35.9	37.0	38.9
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	15.4	16.2	16.6	23.4	24.7	22.5	19.8
	Total self employed	48.3	49.2	56.0	62.0	60.6	59.4	58.7
	Employee	93.8	91.5	90.8	87.2	93.6	96.3	104.6
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	142.5	141.1	147.1	149.8	154.8	156.3	164.1
b. Professional	Self-employed (with paid employees)	16.8	16.3	14.7	14.8	14.6	14.0	13.8
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	24.5	25.2	26.2	25.9	23.9	24.4	26.1
	Total self employed	41.3	41.5	40.8	40.7	38.5	38.4	40.0
	Employee	300.2	297.8	300.2	312.9	312.1	306.0	316.7
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	341.8	339.5	341.5	354.3	351.0	345.2	357.2
c. Associate professional and technical	Self-employed (with paid employees)	6.5	6.4	5.3	4.6	4.7	4.9	[4.5]
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	22.8	25.9	25.1	26.0	28.0	27.4	28.9
	Total self employed	29.3	32.2	30.5	30.6	32.8	32.2	33.4
	Employee	174.0	177.7	189.5	182.9	187.4	193.3	198.8
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	203.7	210.3	220.0	213.9	220.7	226.1	232.6
d. Administrative and secreterial	Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	[2.2]	*	*	*	*	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	3.7	[3.2]	[2.8]	*	[3.2]	*	[3.5]
	Total self employed	5.6	5.4	4.6	[3.1]	4.9	[3.9]	6.0
	Employee	235.0	214.2	201.6	196.4	201.2	200.9	199.0
	Assisting relative	[2.6]	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	243.2	221.7	207.9	201.8	208.8	206.6	206.8
e. Skilled trades	Self-employed (with paid employees)	27.2	20.7	20.2	19.6	20.2	23.3	23.3
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	97.3	92.1	90.3	99.1	109.8	111.5	112.6
	Total self employed	124.5	112.8	110.4	118.7	130.0	134.8	135.9
	Employee	168.3	150.2	146.5	145.5	162.5	173.3	177.9
	Assisting relative	4.1	4.7	4.1	5.1	[3.7]	[3.9]	[4.3]
	Total	296.9	267.6	261.0	269.2	296.2	312.1	318.1
f. Caring, leisure and other service	Self-employed (with paid employees)	4.8	[3.5]	4.3	[3.1]	[3.2]	[4.0]	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	7.1	6.2	6.2	5.9	8.0	7.9	9.8
	Total self employed	11.9	9.7	10.5	9.0	11.3	11.9	12.8
	Employee	133.0	135.1	133.4	132.6	130.3	144.3	144.6
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	146.4	145.9	145.1	143.0	142.9	157.3	159.1
g. Sales and customer service	Self-employed (with paid employees)	[2.7]	[2.5]	*	*	*	*	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	5.5	4.2	[3.6]	5.1	4.6	[3.8]	[4.0]
	Total self employed	8.2	6.7	4.9	6.5	6.2	[4.6]	5.9
	Employee	148.9	151.5	152.5	154.9	147.4	157.3	153.8
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	158.7	158.7	157.7	162.0	154.4	162.4	161.0
h. Process, plant and machine operatives	Self-employed (with paid employees)	3.9	[3.9]	[3.0]	[3.2]	[3.5]	*	[3.5]
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	23.9	22.6	23.6	22.4	22.8	23.5	22.1
	Total self employed	27.8	26.5	26.6	25.6	26.4	26.2	25.6
	Employee	102.3	123.8	118.7	120.3	114.1	115.2	123.7
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	130.6	150.7	145.9	146.5	140.9	142.2	149.8
i. Elementary	Self-employed (with paid employees)	[3.7]	[3.2]	*	*	*	*	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	7.4	6.2	4.8	5.1	5.7	5.7	[5.3]
	Total self employed	11.1	9.3	6.0	6.6	7.1	6.9	6.3
	Employee	208.3	187.3	184.1	190.2	200.3	202.1	200.9
	Assisting relative	[2.7]	*	[2.5]	[3.3]	[3.7]	*	*
	Total	222.1	198.5	192.5	200.2	211.1	211.2	210.2
j. Not stated	Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total self employed	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Employee	5.4	6.8	5.6	4.4	6.8	9.9	16.4
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	6.1	7.8	6.2	4.8	7.5	10.3	17.4
All persons	Self-employed (with paid employees)	100.5	92.0	91.4	88.2	87.2	89.6	92.5
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	208.0	202.3	199.5	215.3	231.1	229.2	233.0
	Total self employed	308.5	294.3	290.9	303.4	318.4	318.8	325.5
	Employee	1,569.2	1,535.9	1,523.0	1,527.3	1,555.5	1,598.6	1,636.4
	Assisting relative	14.2	11.7	11.2	14.9	14.3	12.2	14.5
	Total	1,891.9	1,841.8	1,825.0	1,845.6	1,888.2	1,929.5	1,976.5

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NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector/Full and part-time status			Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16

A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Full-time	69.7	71.9	67.2	79.7	92.1	93.1	90.7
		Part-time	10.8	11.3	13.3	16.4	18.5	14.7	18.6
		Total	80.5	83.2	80.5	96.2	110.5	107.8	109.3
B-F	Total Industry	Full-time	332.9	306.5	298.6	288.3	293.5	325.6	334.9
		Part-time	44.2	40.4	40.7	46.1	45.7	42.6	46.5
		Total	377.1	346.9	339.3	334.3	339.3	368.2	381.4
B-E	Industry	Full-time	221.0	214.7	214.2	212.9	213.8	223.5	226.5
		Part-time	25.5	23.7	21.9	25.1	23.2	22.8	23.5
		Total	246.5	238.4	236.0	238.0	237.0	246.3	250.0
F	Construction	Full-time	111.9	91.8	84.5	75.4	79.7	102.1	108.3
		Part-time	18.8	16.7	18.8	21.0	22.5	19.8	23.0
		Total	130.6	108.5	103.3	96.3	102.3	121.8	131.3
G-U	Total Services	Full-time	1,057.9	1,018.3	1,028.1	1,022.3	1,051.6	1,068.3	1,089.6
		Part-time	368.3	386.5	375.2	391.2	386.1	382.2	390.0
		Total	1,426.2	1,404.8	1,403.3	1,413.5	1,437.7	1,450.5	1,479.6
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	Full-time	183.8	173.8	181.1	177.8	177.8	180.5	180.3
		Part-time	91.5	97.4	90.2	96.3	90.4	90.0	92.2
		Total	275.3	271.3	271.3	274.1	268.2	270.5	272.5
H	Transportation and storage	Full-time	80.6	80.7	75.9	74.5	76.9	76.4	79.3
		Part-time	13.2	13.9	14.3	14.3	12.5	14.3	15.7
		Total	93.7	94.6	90.2	88.8	89.5	90.7	95.0
I	Accommodation and food service activities	Full-time	80.0	64.4	69.0	67.4	76.6	78.6	87.4
		Part-time	51.1	46.3	48.6	52.9	57.1	53.7	55.0
		Total	131.1	110.7	117.6	120.3	133.8	132.3	142.4
J	Information and communication	Full-time	68.1	66.2	71.8	70.7	74.9	75.4	79.1
		Part-time	8.0	6.4	6.7	6.6	5.8	6.4	6.1
		Total	76.1	72.6	78.5	77.4	80.7	81.8	85.2
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	Full-time	92.1	87.5	88.5	87.1	86.0	89.8	91.1
		Part-time	12.3	12.2	12.4	12.6	11.8	12.5	9.6
		Total	104.4	99.7	101.0	99.7	97.8	102.3	100.7
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	Full-time	87.5	86.7	81.8	87.4	98.3	93.7	92.7
		Part-time	15.3	16.9	16.1	16.5	17.3	15.5	17.6
		Total	102.8	103.6	98.0	103.9	115.7	109.3	110.3
N	Administrative and support service activities	Full-time	41.2	43.2	42.3	37.5	42.7	42.0	44.2
		Part-time	20.3	21.7	20.2	22.0	19.8	20.0	24.0
		Total	61.5	64.9	62.5	59.5	62.5	62.1	68.2
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	Full-time	94.4	92.7	87.4	85.9	86.3	86.4	85.2
		Part-time	10.7	11.9	12.0	9.3	10.1	11.5	13.3
		Total	105.1	104.5	99.5	95.2	96.4	97.8	98.5
P	Education	Full-time	116.1	111.2	110.3	110.0	112.3	117.6	117.8
		Part-time	32.0	37.1	36.4	37.5	38.0	36.7	36.1
		Total	148.1	148.2	146.6	147.5	150.3	154.2	153.9
Q	Human health and social work activities	Full-time	157.5	151.8	159.5	165.1	161.3	165.1	168.5
		Part-time	77.2	83.3	80.1	82.3	83.0	81.4	80.1
		Total	234.6	235.1	239.6	247.5	244.3	246.5	248.7
R-U	Other NACE activities	Full-time	56.7	60.1	60.4	58.8	58.5	62.8	63.8
		Part-time	36.8	39.4	38.1	40.9	40.2	40.2	40.3
		Total	93.5	99.4	98.5	99.8	98.6	103.0	104.1
Not stated		Full-time	6.3	5.0	*	*	*	*	[5.2]
		Part-time	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	8.1	6.9	*	*	*	*	[6.3]
Total		Full-time	1,466.8	1,401.8	1,394.8	1,391.1	1,437.5	1,489.6	1,520.3
		Part-time	425.1	440.0	430.2	454.4	450.7	439.9	456.2
		Total	1,891.9	1,841.8	1,825.0	1,845.6	1,888.2	1,929.5	1,976.5

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Table 7 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by occupational group (UK SOC2010) and full-time/part-time status
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Occupational group/Full and part-time status			Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16

1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	Full-time	132.3	129.2	135.8	137.0	142.4	144.1	153.6
		Part-time	10.2	12.0	11.4	12.7	12.4	12.2	10.6
		Total	142.5	141.1	147.1	149.8	154.8	156.3	164.1
2.	Professional	Full-time	296.5	291.5	293.1	303.2	300.9	294.9	310.6
		Part-time	45.3	47.9	48.4	51.0	50.1	50.3	46.6
		Total	341.8	339.5	341.5	354.3	351.0	345.2	357.2
3.	Associate professional and technical	Full-time	173.4	179.2	192.4	184.0	188.8	194.5	197.6
		Part-time	30.3	31.1	27.6	30.0	31.9	31.5	34.9
		Total	203.7	210.3	220.0	213.9	220.7	226.1	232.6
4.	Administrative and secreterial	Full-time	176.8	154.0	146.4	146.3	148.8	148.0	142.0
		Part-time	66.4	67.6	61.6	55.5	59.9	58.6	64.8
		Total	243.2	221.7	207.9	201.8	208.8	206.6	206.8
5.	Skilled trades	Full-time	258.7	232.0	223.1	225.1	251.8	269.7	271.7
		Part-time	38.2	35.7	37.9	44.2	44.4	42.3	46.4
		Total	296.9	267.6	261.0	269.2	296.2	312.1	318.1
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	Full-time	84.7	78.5	80.0	76.9	77.0	89.2	91.8
		Part-time	61.7	67.4	65.0	66.1	65.9	68.1	67.3
		Total	146.4	145.9	145.1	143.0	142.9	157.3	159.1
7.	Sales and customer service	Full-time	82.8	79.0	79.5	77.7	80.7	89.1	88.3
		Part-time	75.9	79.8	78.2	84.3	73.7	73.3	72.7
		Total	158.7	158.7	157.7	162.0	154.4	162.4	161.0
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	Full-time	113.3	130.9	123.9	121.9	119.3	122.5	124.5
		Part-time	17.3	19.8	22.0	24.6	21.6	19.7	25.3
		Total	130.6	150.7	145.9	146.5	140.9	142.2	149.8
9.	Elementary	Full-time	143.7	121.6	115.6	115.0	121.7	128.7	125.7
		Part-time	78.5	76.9	76.9	85.2	89.4	82.5	84.5
		Total	222.1	198.5	192.5	200.2	211.1	211.2	210.2
Other/Not stated		Full-time	4.5	5.9	5.0	[4.0]	6.1	8.9	14.5
		Part-time	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	6.1	7.8	6.2	4.8	7.5	10.3	17.4
Total		Full-time	1,466.8	1,401.8	1,394.8	1,391.1	1,437.5	1,489.6	1,520.3
		Part-time	425.1	440.0	430.2	454.4	450.7	439.9	456.2
		Total	1,891.9	1,841.8	1,825.0	1,845.6	1,888.2	1,929.5	1,976.5

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					Average usual hours worked per week
NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector		Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	50.0	49.0	48.6	47.7	47.1	50.4	49.1
B-F	Total Industry	37.7	38.1	38.2	38.2	38.3	38.7	38.6
B-E	Industry	37.8	38.2	38.5	38.6	38.7	38.9	38.7
F	Construction	37.5	37.9	37.5	37.1	37.0	38.5	38.4
G-U	Total Services	33.7	33.3	33.6	33.8	34.2	34.2	34.4
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	32.9	32.6	33.2	33.0	33.6	33.3	33.5
H	Transportation and storage	39.1	39.0	38.8	38.5	38.4	38.5	39.7
I	Accommodation and food service activities	32.1	30.8	31.6	31.1	31.6	31.9	32.2
J	Information and communication	38.4	39.2	39.3	39.1	39.5	39.6	39.9
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	37.6	37.3	37.7	37.9	37.9	38.0	38.4
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	38.1	38.3	38.1	38.7	38.3	38.6	38.7
N	Administrative and support service activities	32.4	32.2	32.2	31.8	33.2	32.3	32.6
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	36.3	36.3	35.9	37.0	37.7	37.3	37.1
P	Education	28.9	27.8	28.5	28.8	29.7	29.7	29.4
Q	Human health and social work activities	31.7	31.2	31.7	32.1	32.4	32.8	32.7
R-U	Other NACE activities	30.7	30.4	30.6	30.9	31.6	31.0	31.2
Not stated		34.0	33.8	*	*	*	*	[36.1]
Total		34.9	34.7	34.9	35.0	35.5	35.7	35.8

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						Average usual hours worked per week
Occupational group		Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	41.9	41.9	42.7	41.9	42.3	42.6	43.0
2.	Professional	35.1	34.9	35.2	35.6	35.9	35.8	36.1
3.	Associate professional and technical	37.2	37.2	37.9	37.8	37.9	37.7	37.6
4.	Administrative and secreterial	32.8	32.0	32.1	32.9	33.2	33.0	32.5
5.	Skilled trades	40.1	40.4	40.4	40.3	40.9	41.8	41.6
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	28.9	28.2	28.4	28.9	29.1	29.8	30.0
7.	Sales and customer service	28.6	28.4	28.3	28.5	29.6	29.7	29.9
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	38.6	38.5	38.0	37.8	38.0	38.4	38.2
9.	Elementary	31.8	30.6	30.5	30.4	30.6	30.9	30.7
Other/Not stated		34.5	35.0	36.6	[35.8]	37.4	38.0	35.9
Total		34.9	34.7	34.9	35.0	35.5	35.7	35.8

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				Average usual hours worked per week
Employment status	Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16

Self-employed (with paid employees)	46.4	46.7	47.1	44.7	45.8	48.1	48.8
Self-employed (with no paid employees)	41.3	41.3	41.4	41.4	42.0	43.0	42.0
Total self employed	43.2	43.3	43.4	42.5	43.2	44.6	44.0
Employee	33.9	33.6	33.8	34.1	34.5	34.5	34.6
Assisting relative	33.2	29.6	30.1	29.7	26.9	29.0	27.6
Total	34.9	34.7	34.9	35.0	35.5	35.7	35.8

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				Average usual hours worked per week
Full and part-time status	Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16

Full-time	39.5	39.6	39.7	39.9	40.2	40.3	40.5
Part-time	18.6	18.6	18.8	19.1	19.3	19.3	19.3
Total	34.9	34.7	34.9	35.0	35.5	35.7	35.8

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Detailed duration of employment	Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16

Less than 3 months	47.3	51.3	56.9	60.3	63.3	64.3	67.2
3-5 months	58.6	72.8	63.2	74.0	75.3	80.3	81.7
6-11 months	77.4	84.9	94.4	96.1	107.4	116.2	128.0
Total less than 1 year	183.3	209.1	214.5	230.4	246.0	260.8	276.9
12-17 months	85.3	72.5	78.7	84.4	90.9	92.0	109.3
18-23 months	77.6	46.0	49.9	52.9	59.2	54.9	68.0
24-47 months	224.9	175.3	148.5	145.4	136.0	153.4	159.1
48 months and greater	1,293.0	1,307.8	1,301.9	1,298.6	1,304.3	1,314.4	1,289.0
Total 1 year and over	1,680.8	1,601.7	1,578.9	1,581.3	1,590.4	1,614.7	1,625.5
Not stated	27.8	31.1	31.6	33.8	51.8	54.1	74.1
Total	1,891.9	1,841.8	1,825.0	1,845.6	1,888.2	1,929.5	1,976.5

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Table 13 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by detailed size of firm
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Detailed size of firm	Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16

1 to 4 persons	258.2	245.3	234.5	232.1	222.8	225.2	210.5
5 to 10 persons	268.1	244.7	242.5	230.8	226.7	222.9	227.0
Not sure but less than 11 persons	*	*	*	*	*	[2.8]	*
Total less than 11 persons	527.7	490.6	477.9	464.9	452.2	450.9	440.1
11 to 19 persons	171.8	170.9	160.8	144.2	136.9	144.9	155.5
20-49 persons	245.6	233.8	222.4	241.9	242.0	237.9	243.0
Total 11 to 49 persons	417.4	404.6	383.2	386.2	378.9	382.8	398.5
Total less than 50 persons	945.1	895.3	861.1	851.1	831.0	833.7	838.6
50-99 persons	159.4	157.7	159.9	146.7	153.4	155.3	161.2
100 to 249 persons	:	:	:	168.5	166.5	164.0	159.2
Total 50 to 249 persons	:	:	:	315.2	319.9	319.3	320.5
250 to 500 persons	:	:	:	109.7	114.2	118.1	117.4
Total 100 to 500 persons	266.6	264.8	276.3	278.2	280.7	282.1	276.7
500 persons or more	201.2	201.0	194.0	190.5	189.7	191.1	217.2
Total 50 persons or more	627.2	623.5	630.2	615.4	623.8	628.4	655.1
Not stated	111.5	120.7	134.2	163.8	202.3	238.3	249.8
Not applicable - Self-employed person with no employees	208.0	202.3	199.5	215.3	231.1	229.2	233.0
Total	1,891.9	1,841.8	1,825.0	1,845.6	1,888.2	1,929.5	1,976.5
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Table 14 Persons aged 15 years and over in full and part-time employment (ILO) classified by reasons for being in part-time employment
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Full-time employment/Reasons for part-time employment		Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16

Full-time		1,466.8	1,401.8	1,394.8	1,391.1	1,437.5	1,489.6	1,520.3
Part-time		425.1	440.0	430.2	454.4	450.7	439.9	456.2
of which:	Person is undergoing school education or training	58.6	55.2	49.6	53.5	50.3	51.2	56.1
	Of own illness or disability	5.0	5.5	5.9	5.3	4.8	7.0	7.0
	Looking after children or incapacitated adults	66.9	59.7	55.4	62.4	69.9	74.0	78.0
	Other personal or family reasons	103.7	108.3	91.1	80.5	77.5	88.1	108.4
	Person could not find a full-time job	110.4	142.0	157.4	173.1	174.9	158.8	141.4
	Of other reasons	44.2	42.2	42.8	44.9	43.4	36.1	43.7
	No answer	36.4	27.0	27.9	34.6	30.0	24.7	21.5
Total		1,891.9	1,841.8	1,825.0	1,845.6	1,888.2	1,929.5	1,976.5

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Table 15 Employees aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by NACE Rev. 2 Economic Sector and permanency of employment
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NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector/Permanency of employment			Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16

A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Permanent employees	11.6	16.4	13.6	17.5	20.4	20.4	20.0
		Temporary employees	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	12.6	18.2	16.0	20.0	23.8	23.1	22.9
B-F	Total Industry	Permanent employees	282.6	265.5	252.8	245.5	251.1	271.5	282.3
		Temporary employees	17.5	18.8	23.0	22.9	22.0	26.0	22.7
		Not stated	[2.9]	*	[3.7]	[4.3]	4.8	[4.4]	6.7
		Total employees	302.9	286.8	279.4	272.7	278.0	301.8	311.7
B-E	Industry	Permanent employees	211.8	207.3	198.4	199.3	197.7	207.8	212.9
		Temporary employees	9.7	11.5	14.3	15.4	15.8	16.9	12.9
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	222.8	220.3	214.5	216.4	215.4	225.9	227.6
F	Construction	Permanent employees	70.8	58.2	54.4	46.2	53.4	63.7	69.4
		Temporary employees	7.8	7.4	8.7	7.5	6.3	9.1	9.8
		Not stated	*	*	*	[2.7]	[2.9]	[3.1]	[5.0]
		Total employees	80.2	66.6	64.9	56.3	62.5	75.9	84.2
G-U	Total Services	Permanent employees	1,116.5	1,085.1	1,082.6	1,100.5	1,120.1	1,151.3	1,180.1
		Temporary employees	120.3	129.2	131.9	119.7	117.7	105.7	100.7
		Not stated	9.1	10.3	11.3	12.9	15.4	14.2	15.0
		Total employees	1,245.8	1,224.6	1,225.7	1,233.2	1,253.1	1,271.2	1,295.9
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	Permanent employees	213.3	205.3	209.5	213.0	208.8	211.1	218.1
		Temporary employees	23.1	26.3	25.1	23.1	19.9	22.3	19.1
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	237.2	233.0	235.9	237.7	230.7	234.9	239.2
H	Transportation and storage	Permanent employees	64.9	64.9	60.8	62.1	62.1	63.5	67.7
		Temporary employees	[3.7]	5.0	5.1	[3.8]	[4.0]	[4.2]	[3.4]
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	68.6	70.0	66.2	66.9	66.4	67.8	71.3
I	Accommodation and food service activities	Permanent employees	96.6	80.8	83.7	92.1	100.3	102.4	111.3
		Temporary employees	16.3	14.2	17.2	14.9	18.0	15.2	14.1
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	113.9	95.7	102.2	107.6	119.0	118.3	126.2
J	Information and communication	Permanent employees	62.9	58.9	62.0	60.3	64.3	67.7	68.8
		Temporary employees	[2.9]	[2.8]	[4.2]	5.7	4.6	[3.3]	[4.9]
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	66.4	61.8	66.7	66.2	69.2	71.4	74.5
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	Permanent employees	94.4	87.8	89.2	87.2	84.8	88.2	89.3
		Temporary employees	[3.0]	[3.5]	[2.9]	[4.4]	5.5	[4.4]	*
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	97.6	91.5	92.4	91.8	90.8	93.2	92.4
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	Permanent employees	67.3	67.0	62.0	63.7	76.4	72.8	75.2
		Temporary employees	5.7	6.1	6.1	7.5	6.1	4.7	[3.9]
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	73.5	73.3	68.7	71.6	83.4	78.4	79.8
N	Administrative and support service activities	Permanent employees	45.9	48.5	46.0	44.6	46.9	50.4	53.0
		Temporary employees	6.0	6.5	6.2	4.7	5.6	[4.6]	[5.5]
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	53.1	56.2	53.2	50.6	53.5	55.6	59.7
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	Permanent employees	100.8	100.2	96.1	91.4	92.2	92.9	92.0
		Temporary employees	[3.1]	[3.6]	[2.7]	*	[2.7]	[3.0]	[3.8]
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	104.3	103.8	98.8	93.8	95.5	96.6	96.9
P	Education	Permanent employees	116.7	112.5	116.2	116.4	118.3	128.4	125.5
		Temporary employees	23.0	25.5	22.8	21.3	21.5	16.0	17.5
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	140.3	140.1	140.0	139.1	141.8	146.1	145.2
Q	Human health and social work activities	Permanent employees	195.7	197.9	196.7	207.9	206.0	211.9	213.9
		Temporary employees	21.9	21.9	24.0	20.7	19.9	16.8	17.0
		Not stated	[2.3]	[2.5]	[3.2]	[3.7]	4.4	[3.8]	[3.7]
		Total employees	219.9	222.3	223.8	232.4	230.3	232.4	234.6
R-U	Other NACE activities	Permanent employees	58.0	61.3	60.5	61.8	59.9	62.0	65.4
		Temporary employees	11.7	13.9	15.5	11.7	9.8	11.4	8.6
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	[2.9]	[3.3]	*
		Total employees	70.9	76.9	77.8	75.6	72.6	76.7	76.0
Not stated		Permanent employees	5.0	4.5	*	*	*	*	*
		Temporary employees	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	7.8	6.2	*	*	*	*	[5.9]
Total		Permanent employees	1,415.7	1,371.5	1,350.1	1,364.5	1,391.9	1,445.1	1,486.3
		Temporary employees	139.6	150.7	157.1	145.1	142.5	134.7	126.4
		Not stated	13.9	13.7	15.8	17.7	21.1	18.7	23.7
		Total employees	1,569.2	1,535.9	1,523.0	1,527.3	1,555.5	1,598.6	1,636.4

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Table 16 Employees aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by occupational group (UK SOC2010) and permanency of employment
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Occupational group/Permanency of employment			Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	Permanent employees	92.2	89.4	88.0	84.6	90.8	94.0	102.0
		Temporary employees	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	93.8	91.5	90.8	87.2	93.6	96.3	104.6
2.	Professional	Permanent employees	271.1	265.9	268.5	280.4	282.0	282.8	293.4
		Temporary employees	28.4	31.5	30.6	32.0	29.1	22.1	22.0
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	300.2	297.8	300.2	312.9	312.1	306.0	316.7
3.	Associate professional and technical	Permanent employees	160.7	164.4	176.1	169.8	175.4	182.6	187.9
		Temporary employees	11.9	11.8	12.1	11.4	10.0	9.2	8.7
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	174.0	177.7	189.5	182.9	187.4	193.3	198.8
4.	Administrative and secreterial	Permanent employees	220.9	197.9	185.3	181.1	185.0	185.9	184.6
		Temporary employees	12.5	14.2	14.6	13.7	13.5	12.9	12.0
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	[2.7]	*	*
		Total employees	235.0	214.2	201.6	196.4	201.2	200.9	199.0
5.	Skilled trades	Permanent employees	156.1	137.8	132.8	130.9	145.8	155.7	163.2
		Temporary employees	10.6	10.9	11.7	11.2	13.1	14.6	10.5
		Not stated	*	*	*	[3.4]	[3.5]	[3.0]	[4.2]
		Total employees	168.3	150.2	146.5	145.5	162.5	173.3	177.9
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	Permanent employees	113.5	112.8	110.4	112.6	111.5	125.8	123.8
		Temporary employees	17.8	19.6	20.8	16.5	14.9	14.6	16.9
		Not stated	*	[2.7]	*	[3.5]	[3.9]	[3.8]	[3.9]
		Total employees	133.0	135.1	133.4	132.6	130.3	144.3	144.6
7.	Sales and customer service	Permanent employees	127.7	126.5	128.9	132.6	127.4	137.5	136.7
		Temporary employees	20.6	24.1	22.3	21.0	18.7	18.9	16.1
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	148.9	151.5	152.5	154.9	147.4	157.3	153.8
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	Permanent employees	96.4	114.0	106.8	107.8	101.9	104.0	110.3
		Temporary employees	5.1	8.0	10.8	10.2	10.4	10.2	12.0
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	102.3	123.8	118.7	120.3	114.1	115.2	123.7
9.	Elementary	Permanent employees	174.0	157.3	149.5	160.8	167.4	169.3	171.2
		Temporary employees	30.4	27.8	30.8	26.7	29.6	29.4	24.8
		Not stated	[3.9]	*	[3.9]	[2.7]	[3.4]	[3.4]	[4.9]
		Total employees	208.3	187.3	184.1	190.2	200.3	202.1	200.9
Other/Not stated		Permanent employees	[3.1]	5.4	[3.9]	[3.9]	4.8	7.5	13.0
		Temporary employees	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	5.4	6.8	5.6	4.4	6.8	9.9	16.4
Total		Permanent employees	1,415.7	1,371.5	1,350.1	1,364.5	1,391.9	1,445.1	1,486.3
		Temporary employees	139.6	150.7	157.1	145.1	142.5	134.7	126.4
		Not stated	13.9	13.7	15.8	17.7	21.1	18.7	23.7
		Total employees	1,569.2	1,535.9	1,523.0	1,527.3	1,555.5	1,598.6	1,636.4

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Table 17 Employees aged 15 years and over in temporary employment (ILO) classified by type of temporary employment
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Type of temporary employment	Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16

Casual work	38.4	36.9	42.7	48.8	51.0	50.5	44.5
Seasonal work	[3.7]	4.8	5.0	8.5	8.1	8.6	7.9
Lasted only until a particular task/tasks are completed	8.9	12.4	11.3	16.9	19.0	21.7	16.5
Lasted only for a specific duration	28.9	27.5	28.7	64.5	62.4	52.8	55.6
Not stated/No data available	59.7	69.0	69.4	6.4	*	*	*
Total	139.6	150.7	157.1	145.1	142.5	134.7	126.4
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Reason for being in temporary employment	Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16
It is a contract covering a period of training	5.3	[2.9]	5.2	17.4	16.9	16.9	16.5
Person could not find a permanent job	37.6	42.4	50.1	77.2	75.2	71.9	64.0
Person did not want a permanent job	18.5	17.9	15.2	18.1	18.6	20.2	17.6
It is a contract for a probationary period	:	:	:	[3.8]	5.3	[4.7]	*
Not stated	78.1	87.6	86.7	28.6	26.6	21.1	24.7
Total	139.6	150.7	157.1	145.1	142.5	134.7	126.4
: Data not available
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Supervisory duties	Q1 10	Q1 11	Q1 12	Q1 13	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16
Person is a supervisor	408.8	391.7	405.7	401.5	404.7	423.4	450.1
Person is not a supervisor	1,150.0	1,133.3	1,106.4	1,111.3	1,130.7	1,158.3	1,165.2
Not stated	10.3	10.9	10.8	14.4	20.1	16.8	21.1
Total	1,569.2	1,535.9	1,523.0	1,527.3	1,555.5	1,598.6	1,636.4

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Purpose of Survey

The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) began in September 1997, replacing the annual April Labour Force Survey (LFS). The purpose of the survey is the production of quarterly labour force estimates and occasional reports on special social topics. The survey meets the requirements of Council Regulation (EC) No. 577/98, adopted in March 1998, which requires the introduction of quarterly labour force surveys in EU member states.

Reference Period

Information is collected continuously throughout the year from households surveyed each week in each quarter. Up to and including the fourth quarter of 2008 the QNHS operated on a seasonal quarter basis since its establishment in Q4 1997. As of the first quarter of 2009 the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is now undertaken on a calendar quarter basis.

The reference quarters for survey results are:

Q1 - January to March, Q2 - April to June, Q3 - July to September and Q4 - October to December.

Data Collection

Information is collected on tablet computers, using computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) software.

Sample Design

A two-stage sample design is used. A new sample was introduced in Q4 2012 following the 2011 Census of Population. The sample frame of households is clustered into blocks (small areas) with each block containing a minimum of 60 occupied households on the night of the 2011 Census of Population. The sample frame is stratified using administrative county and population density. In the first stage 1,300 blocks are selected using Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) sampling and in the second stage 20 households are selected using Simple Random Sampling (SRS). This ensures that each household in the sample frame has an equal probability of selection and results in a total quarterly sample of 26,000 households. The actual achieved sample varies over time depending on the level of response.

The number of valid responding households in Q1 2016, the most recent quarter for which data is included in this release, was 15,384.

Households are asked to take part in the survey for five consecutive quarters and are then replaced by other households in the same block. Thus, one fifth of the households in the survey are replaced each quarter and the QNHS sample involves an overlap of 80% between consecutive quarters and 20% between the same quarter in consecutive years. As the new sample based on the 2011 Census of Population was introduced incrementally across each quarter from Q4 2012 to Q4 2013, the new sample is fully effective from Q4 2013.

The survey results are weighted to agree with population estimates broken down by age, sex and region and are also calibrated to nationality control totals. The population estimates for April of each year are published in a separate release.

Usual residence and de facto population concepts

Up to and including Q1 2006 the annual population estimates were calculated using the de facto definition of population (i.e. all persons present in the state). Since Q2 2006 a new concept of usual residence has been used, i.e. all persons usually resident and present in the state plus absent persons who are usually resident in Ireland but are temporarily away from home and outside the State.

ILO Labour Force Classification

The primary classification used for the QNHS results is the ILO (International Labour Office) labour force classification. Labour Force Survey data on this basis have been published since 1988. The ILO classification distinguishes the following main subgroups of the population aged 15 or over:

In Employment: Persons who worked in the week before the survey for one hour or more for payment or profit, including work on the family farm or business and all persons who had a job but were not at work because of illness, holidays etc. in the week.

Unemployed: Persons who, in the week before the survey, were without work and available for work within the next two weeks, and had taken specific steps, in the preceding four weeks, to find work. It should be noted that as per Eurostat's operational implementation, the upper age limit for classifying a person as unemployed is 74 years.

Inactive Population (not in labour force): All other persons.

The labour force comprises persons employed plus unemployed.

The data presented in this release are related to persons classified as being in employment only.

NACE Industrial Classification

The QNHS sectoral employment figures are based on the EU NACE Rev. 2 (Nomenclature generale des activites economique dans les Communautes europeennes) classification as defined in Council Regulation (EC) no 1893/2006. Fourteen NACE sub-categories are distinguished in Table 2a of this release. From Q1 2009 NACE Rev. 2 has been adopted as the primary classification of industrial sectors for use in QNHS outputs. From Q4 1997 to Q4 2008 the NACE Rev. 1.1 classification had been in use.

NACE Rev. 2 classification is more detailed than the NACE Rev. 1.1 classification. In particular more sections are now identified for services activities with the aim of better capturing economic activity within services. In cases where there is a direct one to one correspondence (e.g. section H ‘Hotels and restaurants’ in NACE Rev. 1.1 directly corresponds to section I ‘Accommodation and food service activities’ sector in NACE Rev. 2) then the two different series can be expected to be broadly comparable.

However, the series will not be exactly the same, as the process of applying NACE Rev. 2 involved a very detailed recoding process whereby the new NACE classification was applied to each record in each quarter. The detailed nature of this process means it should be expected that even in the case of a one to one correspondence between a NACE Rev. 2 and NACE Rev. 1.1 section; minor differences in the level of the estimates may be seen.

To facilitate analysis and the running of seasonal adjustment on the time series NACE Rev. 2 estimates have been produced from Q1 2004 onwards. As of Q2 2009 only NACE Rev. 2 estimates will be published.

Occupation Classification

As a result of changes to the European regulations governing the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (implemented in Ireland using the QNHS) the CSO is obliged to report occupational coding data to Eurostat based on the new Europe wide classification ISCO-08 from Q1 2011 onwards. To allow this requirement to be met the CSO has changed to using UK SOC2010 as the primary classification used in collecting the data. ISCO-08 is then derived from UK SOC2010. This change is also being implemented for the Census 2011 results.

The previously used classification for publication purposes in Ireland was UK SOC1990 and this cannot be directly compared to the new UK SOC2010 classification as all occupations have been reclassified accordingly. This newer classification reflects the evolution over a period of time of certain occupational areas which were developing rapidly, both in terms of their scale and the complexity of work organisation. One particular example which highlights the impact of these changes on published results is the reclassifying of farmers from the major occupation grouping of ‘Managers and administrators’ in SOC1990 to the major occupation grouping of ‘Skilled trades’ in SOC2010.

Results for occupations coded to the new SOC2010 classification have now been recoded for historical quarters back to Q1 2007 to provide a longer and consistent time series for users.

Further information regarding SOC 2010 is available at the link below:

http://www.cso.ie/shorturl.aspx/104

Reliability of Estimates Presented

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 [ ].

In the case of rates, these limits apply to the denominator used in generating the rate. In the case of annual changes, both the current year and the preceding year are taken into account when deciding whether the estimate should be suppressed or flagged as having a wider margin of error.

Calculation of Rates and Estimates of Change

Rates and estimates of change presented in this release are calculated from whole unrounded numbers. Due to rounding, these may differ from the rates and estimates of change calculated from the rounded volumes presented in the tables.

Main QNHS release and data series

The quarterly QNHS release can be accessed through the CSO website and is available, along with other additional series, at the link below:

http://www.cso.ie/shorturl.aspx/70

Labour market data can also be accessed from Statbank, the CSO’s main data dissemination service which can be accessed through the CSO website at the link below:

http://www.cso.ie/shorturl.aspx/78

Participating Households

The Central Statistics Office wishes to thank the participating households for their co-operation in agreeing to take part in the survey and for facilitating the collection of the relevant data.

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