Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 2nd Quarter 2012

The statistics in this release are based on administrative records and surveys of individual public sector bodies carried out by the Scottish Government and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The publication includes information on public sector employment in Scotland with distinctions made for employment in devolved bodies and reserved bodies (located in Scotland).


Table 3: Public sector employment by devolved and reserved sector; Scotland, Headcount and Full-time equivalent
Not Seasonally Adjusted

Headcount Full-time equivalent
Total Public Sector Devolved Public Sector Reserved Public Sector Total Public Sector Devolved Public Sector Reserved Public Sector
Q2 1999 545,100 470,900 74,300 455,600 384,700 70,900
Q2 2006 601,300 524,300 77,000 506,700 434,000 72,800
Q2 2007 595,600 524,900 70,700 502,100 435,500 66,500
Q2 2008 595,100 525,400 69,700 504,300 438,900 65,400
Q2 2009 630,900 522,100 108,900 539,900 438,500 101,400
Q2 2010 621,700 517,900 103,800 531,100 434,500 96,600
Q2 2011 596,900 499,000 97,900 510,000 419,200 90,800
Q2 2012 580,100 487,600 92,600 496,600 410,900 85,600
Change on year to:
Q2 2012 -16,700 -11,400 -5,300 -13,500 -8,300 -5,200
% change on year:
Q2 2012 -2.8% -2.3% -5.4% -2.6% -2.0% -5.7%

Notes:
1. Figures have been rounded to the nearest hundred.
2. Devolved Public Sector consists of the following staff groups: Civil Service, Other public Bodies, NHS, Further Education Colleges, Local Government and Public Corporations. (as shown in in Table 4)
Reserved Public Sector consists of the following staff groups: Civil Service, Public Bodies, Armed Forces, Public Corporations, Public Sector Financial Institutions (as shown in Table 5)
3. Northern Rock classified to public sector from Q4 2007. Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc and Lloyds Banking Group plc classified to the public sector from Q4 2008.
Detailed tables showing a full time series of data - all quarters back to Q1 1999 - are available to download from the Public Sector Employment Websection:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Labour-Market/PublicSectorEmployment

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