BICS weighted Scotland estimates: data to wave 80
Business Insights and Conditions Survey (BICS) weighted Scotland estimates containing data to wave 80 (including data for Wave 79).
Recruitment
In Wave 80, businesses not permanently stopped trading were asked if they had experienced any difficulties recruiting employees in March 2023.
Figure 1: Difficulties in recruiting employees had been experienced by an estimated 43.1% of applicable businesses. The highest rates of recruitment difficulties were reported by businesses in the Construction (52.4%) and Accommodation & Food Services (47.0%) industry sectors.
Source: Office for National Statistics – BICS – Weighted Scotland Estimates – Wave 80
Of those businesses having had recruitment difficulties, 62.9% reported having a low number of applications for the roles on offer, and a similar proportion reported a lack of qualified applicants for the roles on offer (60.7%). An estimated 17.3% of businesses having had recruitment difficulties reported that this was due to a reduced number of EU applicants, with this share rising to 31.5% in the Accommodation and Food Services industry sector.
Contact
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Marina Curran
Business & Innovation Statistics
Office of the Chief Economic Adviser
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