This publication is categorised as a CSO Frontier Series Output. Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release as it may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example new administrative data sources.
The seasonally adjusted employee index increased by 7.1% in the 12 months to July 2022. The female employee index increased by 7.5%, while the male index increased by 6.7% for the same period.
All age groups saw annual increases in the employee index. The highest increases were in those aged 15–19 years (+17.2%) and 65 years and over (+12.1%). However, all age groups saw monthly decreases in the employee index.
The Accommodation & Food Services Activities sector saw an annual increase of 24.8% in July 2022. When compared with pre-pandemic levels in July 2019, the sector increased by 5.7%.
Data for two additional aggregated sectors are provided: Tourism Industries and Cultural & Creative Industries saw increases in their indices of 23.0% and 6.2% respectively in July 2022 when compared with July 2021.
The Monthly Estimates of Payroll Employees using Administrative Data release is a very short time series (three and a half years of monthly data) and is thus at the lower limit of acceptable length for the seasonal adjustment process. In the short term, care should be taken in interpreting the seasonally adjusted output. Users should be aware that there is increased uncertainty around the seasonally adjusted figures during the COVID-19 period due to the volatility of the data. Non-seasonally adjusted data are available on PxStat.
The Monthly Estimates of Payroll Employees using Administrative Data is published as a 'Frontier' release, therefore the methodology and data are subject to revision. As more data become available, due to later transmissions from employers, the series may change from month to month. As this particularly affects the most recent months, figures should be considered provisional for the two most recent months for the non-seasonally adjusted data.
| Seasonally Adjusted Employee Index | |||
| Seasonally Adjusted Employee Index Base Year: 2019=100 | Monthly % change | Annual % change | |
| July 2021 | 100.6 | 1.2 | 7.1 |
| June 2022 | 109.0 | -0.3 | 9.7 |
| July 2022 | 107.7 | -1.2 | 7.1 |
The seasonally adjusted index increased by 8.4% in July 2022 when compared to July 2019. 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 male and female indices have increased on an annual basis by 6.7% and 7.5% respectively. Both males (-0.7%) and females (-1.4%) decreased in July 2022 when compared with June 2022.
All age groups showed monthly decreases in the seasonally adjusted employee index in July 2022, with 20-24 years (-3.4%), 15-19 years (-2.0%), and 65 years and over (-1.8%) showing the largest decreases.
The seasonally adjusted employee index in the Information & Communication sector saw continuous monthly increases from December 2020 to July 2022, where it reached 120.6, up 8.2% from the previous year.
Accommodation & Food Services Activities sector had the largest decrease in the monthly index (-6.3%), while Information & Communication had the largest increase (+0.2%) in July 2022.
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Statistician's Comment
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has today (14 September 2022) released Monthly Estimates of Payroll Employees using Administrative Data July 2022.
Commenting on the release, John Mullane, Statistician, said:
“Today’s release details employee estimates for July 2022 using administrative data. The series provides estimates of employees (indexed and volumes) by Age, Sex and NACE sector. All data presented are seasonally adjusted. Non-seasonally adjusted data are available on PxStat. For further information see the background notes.
All NACE economic sectors increased on an annual basis. The Arts, Entertainment, Recreation & Other Service Activities sector saw an annual increase of 10.1% to July 2022. However, this sector decreased by 2.0% over the three years from July 2019 to July 2022. Agriculture, Forestry, & Fishing had the smallest increase on an annual basis at 0.7%.
The age group 25-34 years recorded the smallest increase in the employee index when comparing July 2019 with July 2022 at 2.6%.
The highest increases in this three-year period were noted in the following age groups: 33.5% for 15-19 years, 20.9% for 65 years and over, and 15.4% for 60-64 years.”