Scottish Government

Labour Market Brief - May 2013 - *new version*

This briefing contains two documents:

1 - LMB Tables and Charts (availble in PDF and Excel formats). This contains tables and charts for:

• Headline national statistics on employment, unemployment, economic activity
• Claimant count information on areas and occupations most affected

2 - Monthly Briefing - Slide Pack

• A short briefing document, highlighting the key stories and trends in an accessible, and easy to understand format.

These briefing products are based on secondary analysis of data from the latest ONS releases for the Labour Force Survey, Claimant Count and other relevant sources that are in the public domain.

Labour Market Brief - April 2013 - *new version*

Labour Market Brief - March 2013 - *new version*

Labour Market Brief - February 2013 - *new version*

Note that ONS have made revisions to all labour market statistics derived from the Labour Force Survey, including estimates of employment, unemployment and economic inactivity, resulting from the correction of an error in the previously published estimates. These revisions have affected the estimates for September to November 2012 and October to December 2012 only. For both of these time periods, estimates at UK level for the number of people in employment have been revised up by around 20,000 and estimates of the number of economically inactive people have been revised down by around 20,000. There have been very small upward revisions to estimates of the number of unemployed people.

Further information is available here. The data in the briefing packs based on these periods have not been updated.

Labour Market Brief - January 2013 - *new version*

Note that ONS have made revisions to all labour market statistics derived from the Labour Force Survey. See note for February 2013's brief for further information.

Labour Market Brief - December 2012

Labour Market Brief - November 2012

Labour Market Brief - October 2012

Labour Market Brief - September 2012

Labour Market Brief - August 2012

August 2012

Labour Market Brief - July 2012

July 2012

Labour Market Brief - June 2012

June 2012

Labour Market Brief - May 2012

May 2012

Statistics presented

These briefings are updated on a monthly basis and contain:

• The latest monthly headline experimental quarterly Labour Force Survey statistics for young people in Scotland published by ONS. regional ONS release. 
• Information is also presented from the latest Annual Population Survey data set for the 16-24 age group in Scotland.
• Information on young people on the claimant count..

Youth (16-24) estimates for employment, unemployment or inactivity from the LFS are classified as experimental by ONS due to some concerns about the sampling error due to the smaller samples. However, the LFS data are more timely and updated on a monthly basis.

Quarterly Labour Force Survey data tables X01, X02 and X03 are updated each month and can be found at the following link on the ONS web site.  The time series starts in 2006:
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-257600

Tables containing annual National Statistics of employment, unemployment and inactivity by age, based on the Annual Population Survey are available in the headline indicators table HL01-HL11 at the link shown above.

Historic Time series

Historic time series information by age for Scotland (prior to Aug-Oct 2006) is available in the data section of our web site

• Youth Employment Summary Briefing (16-24 year olds) - May 2013

Updated this month:

Part 1: Labour Force Survey estimates - covering Jan-Mar 2013

• Youth Employment Summary Briefing (16-24 year olds) - April 2013

• Youth Employment Summary Briefing (16-24 year olds) - March 2013

Underemployment in Scotland

Copy of briefing provided by the Scottish Government to the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee