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| The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998 |
| Table 6C2 Sought occupation of claimant unemployed 1, 1997-1998 2 |
SOC Group Description |
1997 |
1998 |
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| Total | 162,323 |
140,735 |
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| 1 | Corporate managers/administrators | 3,526 |
2,989 |
| 2 | Managers/proprieters: agriculture/services | 1,824 |
1,609 |
| 3 | Science/engineering professionals | 1,896 |
1,490 |
| 4 | Health professionals | 65 |
63 |
| 5 | Teaching professionals | 1,518 |
1,395 |
| 6 | Other professional occupations | 1,228 |
999 |
| 7 | Science/engineering associate professionals | 1,907 |
1,672 |
| 8 | Health associate professionals | 585 |
502 |
| 9 | Other associate professional occupations | 4,842 |
4,444 |
| 10 | Clerical occupations | 17,226 |
15,824 |
| 11 | Secretarial occupations | 1,444 |
1,236 |
| 12 | Skilled construction trades | 6,525 |
5,491 |
| 13 | Skilled engineering trades | 4,686 |
3,871 |
| 14 | Other skilled trades | 14,406 |
12,471 |
| 15 | Protective service occupations | 1,728 |
1,593 |
| 16 | Personal service occupations | 12,065 |
11,020 |
| 17 | Buyers, brokers/sales representatives | 1,305 |
1,177 |
| 18 | Other sales occupations | 11,621 |
10,251 |
| 19 | Industrial plant/machine operators, etc | 6,751 |
7,241 |
| 20 | Drivers/mobile machine operators | 11,701 |
10,093 |
| 21 | Other occupations: agriculture/forestry/fishing | 2,344 |
2,193 |
| 22 | Other elementary occupations | 51,551 |
41,624 |
| 23 | No previous/unknown occupations | 1,579 |
1,487 |
Source: Office for National Statistics |
| 1 Claimants of unemployment related benefits. This dataset only contains data for computerised claims, and excludes clerical claims which represent about 1 to 2% of all claims. |
| 2 April of each year. |
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