You asked
Please provide access to statistics concerning Standard Occupational Classification breakdown for those currently employed within the UK’s AECO industry i.e. anyone involved in the design, construction, and management of built assets (buildings and infrastructure). If possible, I would like this information to also be broken down by region and level of education.
We said
Thank you for your freedom of information query asking for statistics concerning those currently employed within the UK’s AECO industry broken down by occupation (Standard Occupational Classification), region and level of education.
We also provide a bespoke service for analysis. The request for tables showing the number of people currently employed by industry as well as occupation, region and level of education can be obtained from the customer services team of ONS Social Surveys Division. Special extracts and tabulations of data are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to socialsurveys@ons.gov.uk.
However, you can find LFS statistics regarding those in employment by occupation here -
You can find LFS statistics regarding those in employment by industry here -
There are also APS employment estimates by occupation and region here -
https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/summary.asp?mode=construct&version=0&dataset=168
Another route would be to access the Labour Force Survey or the Annual Population Survey datasets at the UK Data Service if you are able to run your own analysis. You can access anonymised datasets from the UK Data Service.
Details of how to access the data can be found here - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access.aspx
Data can be downloaded free of charge for non-commercial purposes but if charges are applicable, you will be notified during the ordering process.
Advice for commercial users - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/registration.aspx#/tab-commercial-users -
Charges - http://ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/how-to-access/charges.aspx
List of LFS and APS datasets at the UK Data Service - https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/
LFS and APS user guides- https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/methodologies/labourforcesurveyuserguidance
Unfortunately, we do not currently have any published or ad hoc Census tables showing the number of people currently employed by industry as well as occupation, region and level of education.
However, you can find Census statistics regarding those in employment by occupation and region at – https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ct0347
Census data on highest level of qualification by occupation at - https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/dc6501ewla
Census table on industry by occupation at - https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ct0144
For more detailed information from the Census e.g. simple extracts of figures from the 2001 Census and earlier censuses and simple rankings and counts for customer-specified areas, please contact the Census Customer Services at census.customerservices@ons.gov.uk
As this information is already available to you via this route, we consider that s.21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S.21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.