You asked
I am writing to ask for data on hairdressing or barbering professionals and beauticians and their employment status over time.
If possible, please provide;
Regions: UK and London
Time period: 2002-2017
Variables:
Number of Hairdressers or Barbers and Beauticians over time
Their employment over time broken down into employees (full time/part time) and self employed
We said
Thank you for your query regarding hairdressers, barbers and beauticians and their numbers in employment.
We classify occupations in line with the Standard Occupational Classification 2010 (SOC2010). This classification has two Unit Groups; 6221 Hairdressers and barbers, and 6222 Beauticians and related occupations, that have been used for this analysis.
We measure the number of people employed in various occupations using the two related surveys, the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Annual Population Survey (APS). The LFS is a rolling quarterly survey based on interviews with people resident in households across the UK. The APS is an annual version of the LFS, using certain LFS interviews, plus some additional specific APS interviews. Consequently the LFS is used for the main timely headline labour market measures, whereas the APS is used for more detailed analysis.
We have two regular outputs, one from the LFS and one from the APS, which both are closely aligned to your request, although neither exactly matches your definition.
From the LFS we have table Emp04. This is produced on an annual basis and gives the number of people in classes 6221 and 6222, broken down by employees and self-employed, and by full-time and part-time. However, this data is only produced at UK level:
From the APS we produce a dataset that is published on Nomis, which gives a breakdown of the number of people employed in classes 6221 and 6222, in each region of the UK, as well as the UK totals. However, these occupation totals are not broken down by employees and self-employed, or by full-time and part-time. A download from this dataset is attached to this response:
https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/summary.asp?mode=construct&version=0&dataset=168
It would be possible to request an analysis to be produced, by our social surveys team, from the APS that gave this level of detail. It should be noted that such requests may incur a charge to recover the cost of producing the analysis:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/whatwedo/statistics/requestingstatistics/makingarequest
Although it would be possible to produce this request, based on the size of the estimates in the attached APS analysis and the associated confidence intervals, you should be aware that any estimates produced as part of this analysis would be very small, have a very high level of uncertainty associated with them and consequently may well display a very high level of volatility.