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  • Public Sector Employment, Q1 2013 (Excel sheet 680Kb) 12-Jun-2013
    This set of tables contains the latest public sector employment estimates. For most sources that contribute to these statistics, the employment is reported for a specific day in March 2013. The public sector comprises central government, local government and public corporations as defined for the UK National Accounts. Estimates of public sector employment are provided on a headcount and full-time equivalent basis for sectors and industries, and also by region on a headcount basis only. In addition, Civil Service employment is provided by government department and agency. Employment in Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) is provided, aggregated by sponsoring department. Since the inclusion of some financial institutions in the public sector in 2009, estimates for public sector employment and employment in public corporations have been provided with and without these financial institutions. Estimates of private sector employment are provided.
  • Public Sector Employment, Q1 2013 Dataset 12-Jun-2013
    This dataset contains the seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted time series of UK public sector employment, containing the latest Q1 2013 estimates. Public sector employment has been provided by industry and sector classification.
  • Public Sector Employment, Q4 2012 (Excel sheet 482Kb) 20-Mar-2013
    This set of tables contains the latest public sector employment estimates. For most sources that contribute to these statistics, the employment is reported for a specific day in December 2012. The public sector comprises central government, local government and public corporations as defined for the UK National Accounts. Estimates of public sector employment are provided on a headcount and full-time equivalent basis for sectors and industries, and also by region on a headcount basis only. In addition, Civil Service employment is provided by government department and agency. Employment in Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) is provided, aggregated by sponsoring department. Since the inclusion of some financial institutions in the public sector in 2009, estimates for public sector employment and employment in public corporations have been provided with and without these financial institutions. Estimates of private sector employment are provided.
  • Public Sector Employment, Q4 2012 Dataset 20-Mar-2013
    This dataset contains the seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted time series of UK public sector employment, containing the latest Q4 2012 estimates. Public sector employment has been provided by industry and sector classification.
  • Regional Public Sector employment, Q3 2012 (Excel sheet 468Kb) 06-Mar-2013
    Contains estimates of regional public sector employment by government sector and industry. They are consistent with estimates of UK public sector employment published in the Public Sector Employment, Q3 2012 Statistical Bulletin. Also contains estimates of regional public and private sector employment that enable analysis of quarterly change in series affected by the impact of the reclassification of English further education colleges and English sixth form college corporations in April 2012. These estimates are derived by removing indicative series for employment in colleges in English regions from public sector employment estimates.
  • Public Sector Employment, Q3 2012 (Excel sheet 553Kb) 12-Dec-2012
    Contains the latest public sector employment estimates. For most sources that contribute to these statistics, the employment is reported for a specific day in September 2012. The public sector comprises central government, local government and public corporations as defined for the UK National Accounts. Estimates of public sector employment are provided on a headcount and full-time equivalent basis for sectors and industries, and also by region on a headcount basis only. In addition, Civil Service employment is provided by government department and agency. Employment in Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) is provided by sponsoring department. Since the inclusion of some financial institutions in the public sector in 2009, estimates for public sector employment and employment in public corporations have been provided with and without these financial institutions. Estimates of private sector employment are provided.
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