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The seasonally adjusted employee index increased 0.8% in the month to April 2022. The female employee index increased by 0.9%, while the male index remained unchanged for the same period.
The largest monthly increase in the employee index was in the age group 15 – 19 years (+6.0%), with the smallest increase occurring in the age group 55 – 59 years (+0.1%).
The Accommodation & food services activities sector saw an annual increase of 113.0% in April 2022. However, when comparing to pre-pandemic levels in April 2019, the sector increased by 1.5%.
Data for two additional aggregated sectors are provided: Tourism industries and Cultural & creative industries saw increases in their indices of 3.0% and 1.4% respectively in April 2022 when compared with March 2022.
| Seasonally Adjusted Employee Index | |||
| Seasonally Adjusted Employee Index Base Year: 2019=100 | Monthly % change | Annual % change | |
| April 2021 | 94.1 | 2.3 | 4.4 |
| March 2022 | 108.0 | 1.0 | 17.4 |
| April 2022 | 108.8 | 0.8 | 15.6 |
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March 2021 was the last month to show a negative annual change (-10.9%) for the employee index when compared to the previous year. The effect of the pandemic restrictions is evident in the March 2020 to April 2021 figures. The impact of restrictions can be seen in the employee index, for example, in April 2020 (-10.6%) and in November 2020 (-7.5%).
All age groups showed monthly increases in the seasonally adjusted employee index in April 2022, with 45-54 years (0.2%), 55-59 years (0.1%), and 35-44 years (0.3%) showing the smallest increases.
The seasonally adjusted employee index in the Information & communication sector saw a constant monthly increase from December 2020 to April 2022, where it reached 118.2, up 9.0% from the previous year. When comparing the index values in 2021 and 2022 with pre-pandemic peak values (January 2019 to March 2020), it was noted that most sectors surpassed their peak values.
The following sectors have not reached their pre-pandemic peak values: Agriculture; Financial, insurance & real estate, and Arts, entertainment, recreation & other services.
The Arts, entertainment, recreation & other service activities sector reached a maximum index value of 106.1 in May 2019.
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (21 June 2022) released Monthly Estimates of Payroll Employees using Administrative Data April 2022.
Commenting on the release, John Mullane, Statistician, said:
“Today's release details employee estimates for April 2022 using administrative data. The release provides estimates of the number of employees by Age, Sex and NACE sector. All data presented are seasonally adjusted. For further information see the background notes. Due to the pandemic restrictions in place in April 2021, there were large percentage increases in the indices on an annual basis. Pre-COVID-19 figures in April 2019 are used as an additional comparison.
The Arts, entertainment, recreation & other service activities sector saw the largest decrease (-4.1%) in the seasonally adjusted employee index in April 2022 when compared with April 2019. The corresponding annual figure showed a 42.9% increase for the same sector.
The sector showing the largest percentage increase for the series over the three-year period (April 2019 - April 2022) was the Information & communication sector (+19.6%). The annual increase for the same sector was 9.0%.
The age group with the smallest increase when comparing April 2019 to April 2022 for the series was 25-34 years at 1.6%.
For the seasonally adjusted series, the highest annual increases were noted in the following age groups; 71.2% for 15-19 years, 33.0% for 20-24 years and 20.6% for 65 and over.”