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This release has been compiled during the COVID-19 crisis but only the results contained in this release for Quarter 1 2020 may reflect some of the economic impacts of the COVID-19 situation. For further information see Information Note on Implications of COVID-19 on the Labour Force Survey (LFS)

CSO statistical release, 25 June 2020, 11am

Labour Force Survey (LFS) Employment Series

Quarter 1 2014 - Quarter 1 2020

Indicator	Total Employment	Annual change
Q1 14	1,950,700	+58,700
Q1 15	2,014,400	+63,700
Q1 16	2,080,800	+66,500
Q1 17	2,158,400	+77,500
Q1 18	2,220,700	+62,400
Q1 19	2,301,900	+81,200
Q1 20	2,353,500	+51,500
COVID-19 Adjusted estimate of employment - end March 2020	2,070,371	-

Employment reaches 2,353,500 persons in Q1 2020

Figure 1 Numbers in employment (ILO) in the first quarters 2014 to 2020

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This release presents detailed employment statistics for the period Q1 2014 to Q1 2020.

COVID19 and the Labour Force Survey

The effects of COVID-19 on the labour market are not fully reflected in the results from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) in Quarter 1 (Q1) 2020. This is partially due to the timing of COVID-19 implications which only caused the closure of some sectors for the last two weeks out of the 13 weeks in the quarter (i.e. schools, childcare and public houses) while the full list of the closures was announced on 27 March 2020. It is also partially due to the concepts and definitions that CSO are obliged to use for defining the official measures of employment and unemployment. For more information please see the Information Note on Implications of COVID-19 on the Labour Force Survey (LFS)

As part of the process for generating Q1 2020 estimates, the CSO produced a COVID-19 Adjusted Measure of Employment. This estimate was created by subtracting the number who were in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment at the end of March 2020 from the number of persons in employment during Q1 2020. Please see the core LFS release for Q1 2020 for more information.

COVID-19 began to impact the Labour Market towards the end of Q1 2020

In the six-year period to Q1 2020, the number of persons in employment has increased by 402,800 or 20.6% to 2,353,500. The increase in full-time employment (+384,900) over this period accounted for virtually all (95.6%) of this increase. See Table 6.

However, COVID-19 began to impact the Labour Market towards the end of Q1 2020. At the end of March 2020, the COVID-19 Adjusted Measure of Employment, or lower bound of the number of persons aged 15 years and over in employment, was estimated to have been 2,070,371. See Headline Table above.

Employment Status – sectoral groups

There were 2,009,200 persons classified as employees in Q1 2020 while there were 331,600 self-employed persons. Between Q1 2014 and Q1 2020, the number of employees increased by 393,700 or 24.4% while those classified as self-employed increased by 12,400 or 3.9%. See Table 4.

All economic sectors experienced an increase in the number of employees over this period. The largest percentage increases were in the Construction (+48,600 or +90.7%) and the Administrative and Support Services Activities (+30,600 or +46.9%) sectors. The number of self-employed persons, however, fell in five economic sectors with the largest percentage decreases occurring in the Industry sector (-15.7% or -3,300) and the Transportation and Storage sector (-11.4% or -2,400). See Table 4.

Employment Status - occupational groups

The number of employees increased in all nine occupational groups between Q1 2014 and Q1 2020. The Caring, leisure and other service and the Process, plant and machine operative occupational groups, which increased by 39.5% (51,000) and 33.4% (40,200) respectively, showed the largest increase in the number of employees over the period. The largest percentage increases in self-employment were in the Caring, leisure and other service and the Managers, directors and senior officials’ groups at 46.9% (5,300) and 11.9% (7,700) respectively. See Table 5.

Broad Occupational Group	Self Employed	Employees
1	72400	116300
2	49100	460000
3	35100	237200
4	5400	232000
5	117100	196800
6	16600	180100
7	4400	181500
8	24200	160600
9	6500	238700
10	*	6100

KEY
1-	Managers, directors and senior officials
2-	Professional
3-	Associate professional and technical
4-	Administrative and secretarial
5-	Skilled trades
6-	Caring, leisure and other services
7-	Sales and customer service
8-	Process, plant and machine operatives
9-	Elementary
10-	Other/Not stated

Full-time/ Part-time Status- sectoral groups

In the six-year period to Q1 2020, full-time employment increased in all but one of the fourteen economic sectors while just nine sectors showed an increase in part-time employment. See Table 6

The largest percentage increases in full-time employment were in the Construction sector, which almost doubled when it increased by 99.4% (68,000) to 136,400 and the Administrative and support services activities sector which increased by 53.1% (28,500) to 82,200. The Administrative and support services activities sector showed the largest percentage increase in part-time employment when it increased by 27.6% (6,400) to 29,600. On the other hand, the Construction sector recorded the largest percentage decrease in part-time employment over the period, falling by 39.6% (7,400) to 11,300. See Table 6.

Full-time/ Part-time Status - occupational groups

Part-time employment accounted for nearly a quarter (23.8%) of total employment in Q1 2014 and this fell to just over one fifth (20.5%) by Q1 2020. In Q1 2020, the Elementary occupational group had the largest number of persons in part-time employment at 109,700 and this was followed by the Sales and customer service group with 79,200. Together these two groups accounted for 39.2% of total part-time employment. See Table 7.

Average Usual Hours Worked per Week

The average number of usual hours worked per week in Q1 2020 was 36.2 hours compared to 35.5 hours six years earlier. Of the fourteen economic sectors, the Agriculture, forestry and fishing sector had the highest average at 47.5 hours per week while the Education sector had the lowest at 30.2 hours. See Table 8.

When classified by occupational group, the average usual hours worked per week by Managers, directors and senior officials was the highest at 43.6 hours in Q1 2020. The Sales and customer service and Elementary groups had the lowest average hours worked per week at 29.4 hours for both groups. In Q1 2014, the Sales and customer service occupational group had the lowest at 29.0 hours. See Table 9.

Self-employed persons usually worked an average of 44.4 hours per week in Q1 2020, while the corresponding number for employees was 35.1 hours. The average for persons in full-time and part-time employment was 40.6 and 18.4 hours per week respectively. See Tables 10 and 11.

Duration of Employment

There were 1,901,700 persons in their current employment for one year and over in Q1 2020. This accounted for 83.8% of total employment (excluding Not stated) and has declined from 85.4% in Q1 2014. The number of persons in their current employment for less than 1 year was 368,500 or 16.2% of total employment in Q1 2020 and this had increased from 14.6% in Q1 2014. See Table 12.

Reasons for Part-time Employment

There were 481,800 persons in part-time employment in Q1 2020. The share of persons (excluding Not stated) who gave the reason for being in part-time employment as Person could not find a full-time job fell from 41.4% in Q1 2014 to 13.1% in Q1 2020. On the other hand, the share of persons in part-time employment because of Undergoing school education or training increased from 14.7% to 25.2% over the period. See Table 14.

Permanency of Employment

This section refers to permanency of employment in relation to employees only. Permanent employment increased by 379,200 (+26.5%) to 1,812,200 persons between Q1 2014 and Q1 2020, while temporary employment increased by 25,600 (+15.9%) to 186,700 persons. Nine out of every ten employees were in permanent employment in Q1 2020. See Table 15.

When classified by economic sector, the Construction (+104.6% or +47,700), the Administrative and Support Services Activities (+51.6% or +29,100) and the Information and communication (+40.3% or +30,900) sectors showed the largest percentage changes in permanent employment between Q1 2014 and Q1 2020. See Table 15.

The largest percentage increase in temporary employment over the last 6 years was in the Construction sector which increased by 53.7% or 2,900 to 8,300. In volume terms, the largest increase in temporary employment was in the Education sector which increased by 9,300 or 43.3% to 30,800; the change in this sector accounted for 36.3% of the overall increase in temporary employment over the period. See Table 15.

Working at home

The share of persons in employment (excluding not stated) who indicated that they did any work at home increased from 15.1% in Q1 2014 to 23.1% in Q1 2020. In Q1 2020, 8.8% of persons indicated that they usually work at home and this was up from 4.1% in Q1 2014. The share of persons who sometimes work at home increased from 11.0% to 14.3% over the period, while the share who never work from home decreased from 84.8% to 76.9%. See Table 17.

Reasons for being in temporary employment

In Q1 2020, one third of persons in temporary employment (excluding not stated) indicated their reason for being in temporary employment was Person could not find a permanent job; this was down from 62.2% in Q1 2014. The share of persons who did not want a permanent job increased from 18.5% to 34.3% between Q1 2014 and Q1 2020. See Table 18.

Show Table 1 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by detailed NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector

Table 1 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by detailed NACE Rev. 2 Economic Sector
'000
Detailed NACE Rev. 2 Economic Sector	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
01 Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities	102.4	101.8	103.1	100.8	108.3	98.3	101.2
02 Forestry and logging	[3.5]	*	*	[3.9]	*	*	*
03 Fishing and aquaculture	[3.6]	[3.4]	*	*	*	*	*
05 Mining of coal and lignite	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
06 Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
07 Mining of metal ores	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
08 Other mining and quarrying	[4.7]	5.1	[4.4]	[4.6]	[4.3]	[3.9]	[5.6]
09 Mining support service activities	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
10 Manufacture of food products	47.8	50.7	51.3	52.3	49.2	47.3	44.6
11 Manufacture of beverages	5.6	6.2	[5.2]	[5.4]	[5.9]	7.7	[6.3]
12 Manufacture of tobacco products	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
13 Manufacture of textiles	[2.9]	[3.4]	*	*	*	*	*
14 Manufacture of wearing apparel	[3.2]	[3.7]	*	[3.6]	*	*	*
15 Manufacture of leather and related products	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
16 Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials	5.1	*	[3.6]	[5.2]	*	*	*
17 Manufacture of paper and paper products	[2.7]	*	*	*	*	*	*
18 Printing and reproduction of recorded media	8.7	9.6	6.5	9.0	9.5	7.4	9.3
19 Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
20 Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products	*	[3.9]	[4.7]	[4.5]	*	*	*
21 Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations	36.5	34.9	40.6	41.6	40.2	40.9	46.9
22 Manufacture of rubber and plastic products	4.5	[3.5]	[6.4]	6.2	[7.2]	8.4	[6.6]
23 Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products	5.7	7.0	6.2	7.2	[6.8]	8.1	[7.5]
24 Manufacture of basic metals	[2.8]	[3.8]	[4.9]	6.3	[5.4]	[4.6]	[6.3]
25 Manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment	12.0	13.2	14.8	13.8	13.1	14.8	15.2
26 Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products	25.7	30.1	29.8	27.9	20.4	21.5	21.9
27 Manufacture of electrical equipment	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
28 Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.	31.6	31.4	32.7	34.3	8.3	8.4	10.5
29 Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers	[4.0]	[3.0]	*	*	[5.4]	7.3	[4.8]
30 Manufacture of other transport equipment	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
31 Manufacture of furniture	[4.0]	6.4	5.9	6.4	9.0	9.5	[6.7]
32 Other manufacturing	5.8	7.0	7.2	7.8	42.3	45.0	44.8
33 Repair and installation of machinery and equipment	4.6	5.8	6.9	8.0	[4.2]	[5.7]	6.9
35 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	10.5	9.4	12.3	13.7	12.7	14.0	10.9
36 Water collection, treatment and supply	*	[3.2]	*	*	*	[4.4]	*
37 Sewerage	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
38 Waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery	8.3	7.9	6.4	8.7	[6.2]	7.2	[6.9]
39 Remediation activities and other waste management services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
41 Construction of buildings	39.8	48.5	55.6	55.9	48.7	54.2	55.1
42 Civil engineering	5.4	5.6	5.8	6.8	10.7	15.3	17.7
43 Specialised construction activities	41.9	51.3	52.6	62.1	78.0	75.2	74.9
45 Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	34.6	42.5	36.9	36.4	30.6	40.0	33.4
46 Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles	58.5	50.5	46.1	54.9	53.1	44.5	63.1
47 Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles	188.2	193.7	208.2	206.6	211.4	220.2	213.3
49 Land transport and transport via pipelines	45.4	45.4	49.2	51.0	51.7	52.3	51.9
50 Water transport	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
51 Air transport	8.9	12.3	9.7	7.5	[6.6]	[6.9]	8.5
52 Warehousing and support activities for transportation	13.0	12.6	16.1	16.9	18.6	27.5	28.3
53 Postal and courier activities	15.3	15.2	15.4	14.4	16.1	17.2	13.8
55 Accommodation	52.4	53.9	54.3	58.7	52.6	53.3	54.0
56 Food and beverage service activities	87.8	87.4	98.4	102.5	117.0	121.7	116.6
58 Publishing activities	7.0	[5.0]	[5.5]	[5.2]	[5.7]	[6.2]	[5.1]
59 Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities	[5.3]	[3.7]	[5.1]	8.3	[6.5]	8.2	7.7
60 Programming and broadcasting activities	[5.1]	[5.8]	[3.9]	[4.2]	*	[5.2]	*
61 Telecommunications	18.6	20.3	16.8	17.3	17.5	16.4	19.1
62 Computer programming, consultancy and related activities	52.9	59.1	64.8	70.7	75.9	74.4	83.9
63 Information service activities	7.4	6.2	8.6	8.7	[6.2]	[7.6]	[8.6]
64 Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding	65.3	64.5	66.4	66.7	61.9	62.8	70.6
65 Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social security	21.3	21.7	22.4	19.4	21.9	24.1	23.8
66 Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance activities	5.9	8.1	8.2	9.4	12.1	14.6	14.5
68 Real estate activities	8.5	12.3	10.6	11.0	9.6	9.5	10.8
69 Legal and accounting activities	32.7	30.8	29.8	33.3	43.8	47.6	53.2
70 Activities of head offices; management consultancy activities	7.2	5.5	8.1	8.6	9.9	11.4	10.9
71 Architectural and engineering activities; technical testing and analysis	32.6	31.9	31.7	29.7	39.7	40.4	39.7
72 Scientific research and development	7.1	8.1	[7.1]	9.4	[6.3]	7.3	[6.9]
73 Advertising and market research	8.3	6.4	8.2	8.5	13.7	11.5	15.3
74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities	34.3	34.9	33.7	36.6	16.9	18.0	19.6
75 Veterinary activities	[4.3]	*	[4.4]	[4.1]	[3.8]	*	*
77 Rental and leasing activities	7.1	6.7	[6.6]	8.1	9.5	12.5	12.9
78 Employment activities	7.7	8.5	8.8	14.0	8.3	8.9	10.2
79 Travel agency, tour operator reservation service and related activities	8.7	7.7	[5.9]	8.6	[7.4]	[7.0]	8.7
80 Security and investigation activities	14.4	14.0	15.3	17.0	15.6	16.7	20.5
81 Services to buildings and landscape activities	23.6	27.1	33.6	29.7	42.1	48.0	44.0
82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities	15.4	11.9	15.5	13.3	17.0	17.2	15.4
84 Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	88.6	90.8	91.6	93.7	103.5	110.8	115.6
85 Education	146.2	152.0	152.5	157.8	167.0	179.4	192.5
86 Human health activities	166.4	160.2	170.8	165.5	163.2	163.4	157.4
87 Residential care activities	25.5	29.9	26.2	32.6	35.2	41.7	44.5
88 Social work activities without accommodation	67.0	74.7	71.3	78.3	78.9	81.6	88.1
90 Creative, arts and entertainment activities	15.9	17.1	18.8	16.3	11.7	12.0	11.4
91 Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities	[4.0]	5.9	[5.5]	[5.6]	[5.8]	[5.5]	[5.6]
92 Gambling and betting activities	[5.0]	[4.8]	[6.6]	7.3	8.9	8.3	[8.0]
93 Sports activities and amusement and recreation activities	20.9	22.1	25.8	24.9	27.1	27.1	26.8
94 Activities of membership organisations	12.8	16.9	12.5	15.3	19.2	16.6	20.1
95 Repair of computers and personal and household goods	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
96 Other personal service activities	33.7	32.4	34.3	35.6	36.8	38.6	37.3
97 Activities of households as employers of domestic personnel	7.5	7.4	8.7	7.7	9.5	7.1	[5.3]
99 Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies	5.6	[3.2]	*	*	*	*	*
Not stated	*	*	[6.6]	7.8	[6.5]	[6.7]	*
Total persons	1,950.7	2,014.4	2,080.8	2,158.4	2,220.7	2,301.9	2,353.5
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 2 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by detailed occupational group (UK SOC2010)
'000
Detailed occupational group	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
1 Managers, directors and senior officials	168.8	171.5	180.6	191.0	189.1	183.1	189.1
11 Corporate managers and directors	116.4	123.5	130.3	136.4	123.1	119.5	115.1
111 Chief Executives and senior officials	[3.3]	*	*	*	[4.4]	[5.3]	*
112 Production managers and directors	16.6	17.7	18.6	23.7	23.9	23.4	20.3
113 Functional managers and directors	66.3	65.9	67.8	70.0	50.6	42.1	41.3
115 Financial institution managers and directors	5.2	[5.3]	7.6	5.8	[6.1]	6.3	7.7
116 Managers and directors in transport and logistics	6.6	6.9	6.4	8.4	8.6	11.2	11.1
117 Senior officers in protective services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
118 Health and social services managers and directors	*	*	*	*	[5.2]	[4.7]	*
119 Managers and directors in retail and wholesale	15.9	20.5	22.4	20.6	23.0	25.6	25.7
12 Other managers and proprietors	52.4	48.0	50.3	54.7	66.0	63.6	73.9
121 Managers and proprietors in agriculture related services	*	*	*	*	[4.7]	[3.6]	[6.2]
122 Managers and proprietors in hospitality and leisure services	22.2	19.2	23.1	22.7	22.9	21.1	24.8
124 Managers and proprietors in health and care services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
125 Managers and proprietors in other services	25.7	24.8	24.6	27.4	35.6	37.0	39.8
2 Professional	396.1	394.4	412.0	429.5	442.9	475.6	509.4
21 Science, research, engineering and technology professionals	89.3	87.4	95.6	103.7	107.0	110.5	121.4
211 Natural and social science professionals	12.2	11.1	11.3	15.3	13.6	15.4	17.4
212 Engineering professionals	21.5	21.6	21.3	26.1	32.7	34.0	31.9
213 Information technology and telecommunications professionals	53.2	51.1	58.8	58.9	57.4	57.3	67.9
214 Conservation and environment professionals	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
215 Research and development managers	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
22 Health professionals	98.6	100.7	95.3	102.9	103.4	118.0	111.9
221 Health professionals	32.5	34.3	31.2	33.0	32.1	37.6	36.5
222 Therapy professionals	8.9	11.3	8.7	12.7	13.5	12.0	13.1
223 Nursing and midwifery professionals	57.1	55.0	55.4	57.2	57.8	68.4	62.3
23 Teaching and educational professionals	101.7	103.9	104.4	112.2	118.6	120.6	130.2
231 Teaching and educational professionals	101.7	103.9	104.4	112.2	118.6	120.6	130.2
24 Business, media and public service professionals	106.5	102.5	116.7	110.7	113.8	126.4	145.9
241 Legal professionals	12.1	11.3	16.2	14.1	13.2	13.5	17.6
242 Business, research and administrative professionals	62.1	60.7	61.2	59.1	61.5	73.0	83.6
243 Architects, town planners and surveyors	10.1	9.6	11.0	11.7	14.4	13.7	15.1
244 Welfare professionals	8.9	7.2	11.4	9.0	7.8	7.9	10.2
245 Librarians and related professionals	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
246 Quality and regulatory professionals	[4.3]	[4.9]	[6.5]	[6.0]	7.6	8.2	9.6
247 Media professionals	6.5	5.4	7.6	7.6	[6.6]	7.3	[7.5]
3 Associate professional and technical	239.7	248.3	261.3	266.0	256.8	268.5	272.6
31 Science, engineering and technology associate professionals	37.8	40.3	42.2	49.3	50.3	50.4	39.8
311 Science, engineering and production technicians	19.7	21.0	23.3	26.7	23.5	25.8	21.3
312 Draughtspersons and related architectural technicians	[2.9]	*	[3.9]	*	*	*	*
313 Information technology technicians	15.2	16.6	14.9	19.5	24.0	21.9	15.8
32 Health and social care associate professionals	18.7	21.2	19.1	20.2	20.6	21.0	24.2
321 Health associate professionals	9.3	9.6	10.7	10.2	11.1	10.4	13.3
323 Welfare and housing associate professionals	9.4	11.6	8.4	10.0	9.5	10.6	10.9
33 Protective service occupations	23.2	22.3	21.7	22.7	24.6	21.4	25.4
331 Protective service occupations	23.2	22.3	21.7	22.7	24.6	21.4	25.4
34 Culture, media and sports occupations	33.8	36.5	35.9	36.8	39.1	38.7	40.0
341 Artistic, literary and media occupations	19.4	20.7	19.1	19.0	22.4	20.7	18.6
342 Design occupations	6.3	7.9	6.7	7.1	[7.5]	[6.8]	9.1
344 Sports and fitness occupations	8.2	7.9	10.1	10.7	9.2	11.2	12.3
35 Business and public service associate professionals	126.2	127.9	142.4	137.0	122.2	137.1	143.3
351 Transport associate professionals	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
352 Legal associate professionals	[3.2]	*	*	[4.0]	*	*	*
353 Business, finance and related associate professionals	32.1	35.4	40.5	39.6	42.0	46.0	46.5
354 Sales, marketing and related associate professionals	61.4	59.9	66.7	61.9	49.0	53.5	58.7
355 Conservation and environmental associate professionals	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
356 Public services and other associate professionals	26.9	26.4	29.6	29.3	26.4	30.6	31.6
4 Administrative and secretarial	198.7	199.4	200.8	207.4	216.5	228.5	239.3
41 Administrative occupations	159.2	160.6	159.8	167.3	173.9	182.5	196.5
411 Administrative occupations: Government and related organisations	32.4	30.1	29.1	32.4	42.9	48.4	44.3
412 Administrative occupations: Finance	47.4	48.8	46.2	45.7	52.4	49.6	55.0
413 Administrative occupations: Records	17.7	15.3	18.2	22.6	12.3	14.0	21.0
415 Other administrative occupations	54.4	57.8	57.6	57.3	58.8	60.2	65.5
416 Administrative occupations: Office managers and supervisors	7.3	8.6	8.6	9.2	7.5	10.2	10.6
42 Secretarial and related occupations	39.5	38.8	41.1	40.1	42.7	46.0	42.8
421 Secretarial and related occupations	39.5	38.8	41.1	40.1	42.7	46.0	42.8
5 Skilled trades	271.2	289.3	297.0	307.0	317.2	321.5	315.1
51 Skilled agricultural and related trades	90.6	93.6	95.3	91.7	91.8	89.2	81.0
511 Agricultural and related trades	90.6	93.6	95.3	91.7	91.8	89.2	81.0
52 Skilled metal, electrical and electronic trades	85.3	88.1	91.4	91.7	84.8	89.7	100.5
521 Metal forming, welding and related trades	8.4	9.4	11.6	11.7	12.3	13.2	12.5
522 Metal machining, fitting and instrument making trades	24.8	27.4	26.6	25.9	17.4	16.6	19.6
523 Vehicle trades	19.5	20.4	15.6	18.7	18.2	23.1	21.9
524 Electrical and electronic trades	31.1	29.3	35.6	34.1	35.8	35.6	44.4
525 Skilled Metal, electrical and electronic trades supervisors	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
53 Skilled construction and building trades	46.8	55.3	55.5	64.4	73.2	78.6	75.6
531 Construction and building trades	34.8	41.4	40.9	48.7	51.9	55.5	56.0
532 Building finishing trades	9.3	11.1	11.5	11.6	18.7	19.7	15.0
533 Construction and building trades supervisors	[2.7]	[2.8]	[3.1]	[4.0]	*	*	[4.6]
54 Textiles, printing and other skilled trades	48.5	52.3	54.8	59.3	67.4	64.0	58.1
541 Textiles and garments trades	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
542 Printing trades	[3.1]	[2.9]	*	[2.9]	*	*	*
543 Food preparation and hospitality trades	38.6	40.8	43.5	48.7	53.2	51.4	47.1
544 Other skilled trades	4.8	6.2	6.5	6.7	7.8	8.6	[6.4]
6 Caring, leisure and other services	141.9	159.8	161.6	173.8	190.5	191.8	197.0
61 Caring personal service occupations	97.1	112.4	113.1	124.5	128.0	129.9	135.6
612 Childcare and related personal services	35.5	36.6	38.5	42.2	47.3	47.7	52.8
613 Animal care and control services	*	*	*	*	[5.0]	[4.6]	[5.0]
614 Caring personal services	60.2	73.4	72.0	79.0	75.7	77.6	77.8
62 Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations	44.9	47.4	48.4	49.2	62.5	61.9	61.4
621 Leisure and travel services	9.4	9.3	8.3	10.8	10.4	13.4	11.3
622 Hairdressers and related services	22.7	23.8	23.3	26.9	28.8	28.0	27.9
623 Housekeeping and related services	11.6	13.0	15.8	10.5	22.1	18.5	20.2
624 Cleaning and housekeeping managers and supervisors	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
7 Sales and customer service	155.9	166.0	167.3	171.6	182.0	188.7	186.0
71 Sales occupations	136.3	144.1	145.7	145.5	156.2	164.1	155.9
711 Sales assistants and retail cashiers	122.3	128.9	132.1	128.4	135.0	137.2	130.4
712 Sales related occupations	10.9	10.9	8.8	11.1	17.5	19.0	19.9
713 Sales supervisors	[3.1]	[4.4]	[4.8]	6.0	*	7.9	[5.6]
72 Customer service occupations	19.6	21.9	21.6	26.1	25.7	24.6	30.2
721 Customer service occupations	15.6	18.1	18.3	21.6	22.8	21.1	26.5
722 Customer service managers and supervisors	[4.0]	[3.8]	*	[4.6]	*	*	*
8 Process, plant and machine operatives	146.4	149.4	158.3	161.2	169.3	180.9	186.2
81 Process, plant and machine operatives	75.3	74.9	77.1	79.0	88.7	94.0	99.1
811 Process Operatives	23.5	24.6	23.1	21.8	37.4	35.2	33.4
812 Plant and machine operatives	9.0	7.7	8.3	9.3	9.2	11.7	13.6
813 Assemblers and routine operatives	32.3	32.5	30.8	35.2	31.9	35.9	37.6
814 Construction operatives	10.5	10.1	15.0	12.6	10.1	11.1	14.6
82 Transport and mobile machine drivers and operatives	71.1	74.5	81.1	82.2	80.6	87.0	87.1
821 Road transport drivers	56.6	58.3	64.8	64.5	62.9	63.4	64.2
822 Mobile machine drivers and operatives	9.9	12.3	12.0	14.1	12.8	18.4	18.6
823 Other drivers and transport operatives	4.7	[3.9]	[4.3]	[3.6]	[5.0]	[5.2]	*
9 Elementary	227.8	230.7	231.1	240.5	243.1	250.9	252.0
91 Elementary trades and related occupations	57.6	65.1	59.4	61.7	50.3	46.8	47.6
911 Elementary agricultural occupations	18.8	13.4	13.5	11.6	16.8	13.3	17.3
912 Elementary construction occupations	29.7	37.7	35.0	40.3	20.8	22.4	18.6
913 Elementary process plant occupations	8.7	13.1	10.4	9.4	11.8	10.0	10.7
92 Elementary administration and service occupations	170.2	165.7	171.7	178.9	192.8	204.1	204.4
921 Elementary administration occupations	9.6	7.9	8.6	7.4	9.2	9.3	7.2
923 Elementary cleaning occupations	40.9	38.9	38.6	44.5	44.4	50.1	48.5
924 Elementary security occupations	16.3	16.3	16.6	15.5	19.1	16.7	19.2
925 Elementary sales occupations	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
926 Elementary storage occupations	21.7	20.7	20.0	19.2	21.8	22.3	25.8
927 Other elementary services occupations	80.4	80.5	87.1	91.3	97.2	103.9	101.2
Other/Not stated	4.1	5.6	10.8	10.3	13.3	12.3	[6.8]
Total persons	1,950.7	2,014.4	2,080.8	2,158.4	2,220.7	2,301.9	2,353.5
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 3 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by NACE Rev. 2 Economic Sector and occupational group (UK SOC2010)
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NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector/Occupational group			Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	[4.5]	[3.1]	*	[3.3]	[4.5]	[4.5]	7.3
		2. Professional	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		3. Associate professional and technical	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		4. Administrative and secretarial	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		5. Skilled trades	79.0	82.4	83.1	81.1	82.6	77.1	71.7
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	[4.5]	*	*	[5.3]
		9. Elementary	17.9	13.8	15.5	12.3	17.3	13.6	16.6
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	109.5	107.2	108.1	107.7	113.3	103.8	107.3
B-F	Total Industry	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	27.9	30.3	34.7	35.3	33.8	32.6	32.9
		2. Professional	32.2	33.3	33.1	40.8	44.8	49.7	53.6
		3. Associate professional and technical	38.9	41.8	45.5	45.7	38.7	41.2	36.8
		4. Administrative and secretarial	20.3	20.4	20.6	22.9	22.4	27.9	26.6
		5. Skilled trades	95.2	108.6	116.3	125.8	136.7	139.0	138.1
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	[3.5]	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	7.6	7.2	6.7	7.6	8.0	[6.1]	[6.8]
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	72.5	75.8	78.3	81.1	93.9	100.6	105.7
		9. Elementary	37.0	45.4	41.4	44.8	33.9	33.1	32.5
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	332.8	365.0	381.1	406.9	416.7	432.3	434.2
B-E	Industry	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	21.6	22.1	26.0	28.0	25.2	25.2	23.2
		2. Professional	29.5	30.7	29.1	34.0	33.3	35.7	40.7
		3. Associate professional and technical	35.7	38.5	40.4	41.8	35.6	37.4	33.8
		4. Administrative and secretarial	16.6	16.5	16.8	18.9	17.2	21.1	19.0
		5. Skilled trades	45.6	50.5	55.3	55.2	54.7	55.1	55.0
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	6.7	6.6	5.8	6.9	7.8	[5.8]	[6.3]
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	62.3	63.1	62.0	66.1	81.4	87.0	89.3
		9. Elementary	26.5	30.0	30.1	29.8	20.5	18.5	18.1
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	245.7	259.6	267.1	282.1	279.4	287.7	286.5
F	Construction	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	6.3	8.2	8.7	7.3	8.6	7.4	9.6
		2. Professional	[2.7]	*	[4.0]	6.8	11.5	14.0	12.9
		3. Associate professional and technical	[3.2]	[3.3]	[5.1]	[4.0]	*	*	*
		4. Administrative and secretarial	3.7	3.9	[3.8]	[4.1]	[5.2]	6.8	7.7
		5. Skilled trades	49.6	58.1	61.1	70.6	82.0	83.9	83.0
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	10.1	12.7	16.2	15.0	12.6	13.6	16.4
		9. Elementary	10.5	15.4	11.3	15.0	13.4	14.6	14.4
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	87.1	105.4	114.0	124.9	137.3	144.6	147.7
G-U	Total Services	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	136.4	137.6	143.7	152.1	150.8	145.8	148.9
		2. Professional	362.8	359.8	378.2	386.6	396.8	425.5	454.6
		3. Associate professional and technical	199.0	204.4	213.9	218.8	217.0	225.6	234.4
		4. Administrative and secretarial	176.6	176.6	178.2	182.2	190.9	199.1	210.0
		5. Skilled trades	96.8	97.9	97.5	100.2	97.9	105.4	105.2
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	140.4	157.2	157.1	170.2	187.4	189.5	194.6
		7. Sales and customer service	148.1	158.4	160.5	163.8	173.5	182.2	179.0
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	71.4	70.8	77.9	75.4	72.8	76.9	75.3
		9. Elementary	172.6	171.1	174.3	182.7	191.7	204.3	202.7
		Other/Not stated	3.6	4.9	3.8	4.0	[5.4]	[4.8]	*
		Total	1,507.7	1,538.8	1,585.0	1,636.0	1,684.1	1,759.1	1,807.7
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	45.1	45.0	44.6	46.7	45.6	46.9	49.7
		2. Professional	11.8	9.3	11.6	12.0	11.0	9.8	9.1
		3. Associate professional and technical	27.0	26.7	30.8	28.4	23.0	21.4	24.8
		4. Administrative and secretarial	22.9	18.4	21.7	20.6	19.2	21.0	21.2
		5. Skilled trades	24.0	28.0	21.4	25.3	22.8	25.8	25.6
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	116.0	124.8	125.6	128.0	139.6	149.3	142.7
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	12.7	12.0	13.9	13.9	12.2	11.2	13.5
		9. Elementary	20.1	20.3	20.3	21.2	19.8	18.6	21.4
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	281.3	286.7	291.2	298.0	295.0	304.7	309.8
H	Transportation and storage	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	5.5	6.2	7.3	6.2	8.4	8.6	[6.9]
		2. Professional	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		3. Associate professional and technical	5.5	5.2	[5.5]	[4.9]	[5.7]	6.2	[7.2]
		4. Administrative and secretarial	8.4	9.6	8.2	11.2	8.4	9.2	11.7
		5. Skilled trades	[3.7]	[2.6]	[3.4]	[3.6]	*	*	*
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	[5.6]	*
		7. Sales and customer service	[2.7]	[2.6]	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	41.1	42.9	47.0	45.6	46.0	50.4	47.5
		9. Elementary	14.8	13.6	15.3	12.2	12.3	17.9	16.4
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	84.9	87.6	92.4	91.7	94.9	105.8	103.7
I	Accommodation and food service activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	19.7	18.8	23.8	21.8	20.4	20.6	23.5
		2. Professional	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		3. Associate professional and technical	[4.1]	[4.1]	[4.0]	*	*	*	*
		4. Administrative and secretarial	5.2	7.2	6.4	7.4	[6.9]	7.9	[5.1]
		5. Skilled trades	23.9	24.8	29.9	33.1	34.5	36.3	32.5
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	[4.2]	[4.5]	[5.5]	[4.2]	[7.2]	[7.7]	[7.6]
		7. Sales and customer service	6.3	5.3	[5.4]	[4.5]	*	*	[5.6]
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	73.5	73.6	75.3	82.4	91.9	93.9	89.2
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	140.2	141.3	152.6	161.2	169.6	175.0	170.6
J	Information and communication	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	8.7	8.8	11.2	13.5	11.2	11.5	8.2
		2. Professional	39.2	37.6	46.7	46.2	50.3	50.0	57.0
		3. Associate professional and technical	23.9	28.1	24.2	31.2	32.9	32.8	32.6
		4. Administrative and secretarial	6.2	6.5	6.9	7.0	[5.0]	[5.7]	*
		5. Skilled trades	7.8	7.1	7.8	7.5	[7.5]	8.6	12.5
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	5.3	6.4	[4.5]	5.7	[7.0]	[5.6]	[8.9]
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	96.4	100.1	104.8	114.4	115.8	118.0	127.8
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	14.1	14.3	15.3	16.2	17.3	14.2	16.2
		2. Professional	22.8	21.0	23.8	21.2	21.5	28.1	28.2
		3. Associate professional and technical	21.3	26.8	30.1	29.3	29.5	32.9	32.4
		4. Administrative and secretarial	33.0	33.0	27.2	27.9	28.6	28.5	34.7
		5. Skilled trades	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	5.6	6.6	7.7	7.8	*	[4.9]	[6.2]
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	100.9	106.7	107.6	106.5	105.5	111.0	119.6
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	10.4	9.3	7.8	11.6	10.1	10.8	[8.0]
		2. Professional	61.3	57.3	63.0	64.4	57.7	62.3	70.4
		3. Associate professional and technical	22.3	20.9	21.4	22.6	32.2	32.2	34.1
		4. Administrative and secretarial	13.9	14.4	12.7	15.5	21.0	22.2	23.0
		5. Skilled trades	11.4	10.7	10.0	6.7	[6.9]	[6.7]	[7.8]
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	126.3	120.7	122.9	130.1	134.2	139.3	149.5
N	Administrative and support service activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	[6.1]	7.2	[6.1]	[7.5]	9.6	7.4	8.4
		2. Professional	*	*	*	*	*	*	[5.0]
		3. Associate professional and technical	10.1	6.9	8.5	13.2	10.0	11.8	11.2
		4. Administrative and secretarial	10.5	11.7	10.8	10.9	8.2	9.3	10.3
		5. Skilled trades	9.0	8.3	9.8	8.7	9.0	10.9	11.7
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	[4.0]	[3.7]	[4.6]	[5.5]	[6.8]	[7.0]	9.6
		7. Sales and customer service	[4.9]	[5.2]	7.8	8.0	9.1	9.2	[7.5]
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	[5.1]	[6.2]	*
		9. Elementary	26.3	27.8	30.8	32.9	37.7	44.1	43.7
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	76.9	75.8	85.7	90.7	99.9	110.4	111.8
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	4.6	6.1	6.6	7.8	*	[4.4]	[5.2]
		2. Professional	10.1	12.0	10.2	9.9	12.6	16.0	18.6
		3. Associate professional and technical	32.4	31.2	32.7	31.7	36.1	36.2	40.8
		4. Administrative and secretarial	33.2	33.6	31.6	35.4	45.2	45.3	43.8
		5. Skilled trades	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	[3.2]	[2.4]	[3.7]	[2.9]	*	*	*
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	88.6	90.8	91.6	93.7	103.5	110.8	115.6
P	Education	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	[3.0]	[3.6]	*	[3.4]	*	*	*
		2. Professional	99.2	103.9	104.7	107.9	121.0	124.1	134.2
		3. Associate professional and technical	11.2	9.5	8.9	9.6	[6.8]	7.4	7.5
		4. Administrative and secretarial	8.4	8.4	10.5	10.1	9.5	12.9	15.4
		5. Skilled trades	*	[2.9]	*	*	*	*	*
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	15.3	16.6	16.6	18.2	22.9	27.4	27.4
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	5.4	5.0	5.4	4.4	*	*	*
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	146.2	152.0	152.5	157.8	167.0	179.4	192.5
Q	Human health and social work activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	10.0	8.0	9.2	9.3	13.2	9.5	10.9
		2. Professional	102.1	102.3	101.7	106.3	105.8	120.4	117.7
		3. Associate professional and technical	20.8	21.4	22.7	20.2	17.3	18.2	16.6
		4. Administrative and secretarial	24.2	22.6	28.3	23.8	25.9	26.8	25.7
		5. Skilled trades	5.4	4.6	[3.5]	[4.0]	[5.2]	[4.7]	*
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	75.7	89.1	88.3	95.5	95.0	93.5	100.0
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	[3.3]	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	15.3	13.1	10.7	12.1	11.2	11.1	12.9
		Other/Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	258.9	264.9	268.3	276.4	277.3	286.7	290.0
R-U	Other NACE activities	1. Managers, directors and senior officials	9.1	10.2	8.9	8.1	10.0	9.3	10.1
		2. Professional	10.3	9.8	11.2	12.9	8.8	7.8	9.6
		3. Associate professional and technical	20.3	23.5	25.2	24.3	21.2	23.5	23.6
		4. Administrative and secretarial	10.5	11.2	13.9	12.4	12.9	10.5	14.4
		5. Skilled trades	7.8	6.1	6.6	6.4	[6.5]	[6.5]	[4.7]
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	33.9	34.6	36.7	39.1	46.4	44.9	41.1
		7. Sales and customer service	*	[2.8]	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	8.4	9.6	8.3	9.3	10.4	11.0	8.7
		Other/Not stated	[2.6]	[2.8]	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	106.9	112.3	115.4	115.5	121.4	118.0	116.7
Not stated		1. Managers, directors and senior officials	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		2. Professional	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		3. Associate professional and technical	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		4. Administrative and secretarial	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		5. Skilled trades	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		7. Sales and customer service	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		9. Elementary	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Other/Not stated	*	*	[5.9]	5.4	[4.6]	[6.0]	*
		Total	*	*	[6.6]	7.8	[6.5]	[6.7]	*
All persons		1. Managers, directors and senior officials	168.8	171.5	180.6	191.0	189.1	183.1	189.1
		2. Professional	396.1	394.4	412.0	429.5	442.9	475.6	509.4
		3. Associate professional and technical	239.7	248.3	261.3	266.0	256.8	268.5	272.6
		4. Administrative and secretarial	198.7	199.4	200.8	207.4	216.5	228.5	239.3
		5. Skilled trades	271.2	289.3	297.0	307.0	317.2	321.5	315.1
		6. Caring, leisure and other services	141.9	159.8	161.6	173.8	190.5	191.8	197.0
		7. Sales and customer service	155.9	166.0	167.3	171.6	182.0	188.7	186.0
		8. Process, plant and machine operatives	146.4	149.4	158.3	161.2	169.3	180.9	186.2
		9. Elementary	227.8	230.7	231.1	240.5	243.1	250.9	252.0
		Other/Not stated	4.1	5.6	10.8	10.3	13.3	12.3	[6.8]
		Total persons	1,950.7	2,014.4	2,080.8	2,158.4	2,220.7	2,301.9	2,353.5
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector/Employment status			Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Self-employed (with paid employees)	7.1	7.8	9.4	7.9	9.7	9.8	8.4
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	68.2	67.9	64.7	65.4	69.5	62.0	62.6
		Total self employed	75.3	75.7	74.1	73.3	79.2	71.8	71.0
		Employee	26.7	26.1	26.5	27.7	24.6	25.8	29.8
		Assisting relative	7.5	5.3	7.5	6.6	9.5	6.1	6.5
		Total	109.5	107.2	108.1	107.7	113.3	103.8	107.3
B-F	Total Industry	Self-employed (with paid employees)	16.4	18.9	17.7	21.4	24.1	25.1	23.7
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	37.1	39.3	43.5	38.4	42.6	41.1	38.8
		Total self employed	53.5	58.2	61.2	59.8	66.7	66.2	62.5
		Employee	277.6	305.3	318.6	345.3	349.1	364.9	369.2
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	332.8	365.0	381.1	406.9	416.7	432.3	434.2
B-E	Industry	Self-employed (with paid employees)	7.7	6.6	6.4	9.2	9.0	8.5	7.5
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	13.3	13.7	14.9	12.8	10.7	10.2	10.2
		Total self employed	21.0	20.3	21.4	21.9	19.7	18.7	17.7
		Employee	224.0	238.9	244.8	259.1	259.4	268.7	267.0
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	245.7	259.6	267.1	282.1	279.4	287.7	286.5
F	Construction	Self-employed (with paid employees)	8.7	12.4	11.2	12.2	15.1	16.6	16.2
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	23.9	25.6	28.6	25.6	31.9	30.9	28.6
		Total self employed	32.6	37.9	39.8	37.8	47.1	47.6	44.8
		Employee	53.6	66.4	73.8	86.2	89.7	96.2	102.2
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	87.1	105.4	114.0	124.9	137.3	144.6	147.7
G-U	Total Services	Self-employed (with paid employees)	66.8	64.4	70.0	66.7	66.7	62.1	64.2
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	123.5	120.1	121.1	116.8	125.3	123.1	133.7
		Total self employed	190.3	184.5	191.1	183.4	192.0	185.3	197.8
		Employee	1,310.6	1,347.7	1,385.9	1,448.0	1,487.7	1,570.0	1,606.3
		Assisting relative	6.8	6.6	8.0	[4.6]	[4.4]	*	*
		Total	1,507.7	1,538.8	1,585.0	1,636.0	1,684.1	1,759.1	1,807.7
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	Self-employed (with paid employees)	17.8	18.6	19.2	18.4	15.8	17.8	16.8
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	18.8	16.8	14.0	12.7	15.9	12.3	17.2
		Total self employed	36.6	35.4	33.2	31.1	31.6	30.1	34.0
		Employee	243.3	249.9	255.9	265.9	261.9	273.4	274.7
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	281.3	286.7	291.2	298.0	295.0	304.7	309.8
H	Transportation and storage	Self-employed (with paid employees)	[3.5]	[3.5]	[4.8]	[3.5]	*	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	17.6	17.9	17.2	15.2	19.0	15.3	16.4
		Total self employed	21.0	21.3	21.9	18.7	22.9	18.9	18.6
		Employee	63.3	65.8	70.2	72.6	72.0	86.6	85.0
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	84.9	87.6	92.4	91.7	94.9	105.8	103.7
I	Accommodation and food service activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	9.2	8.6	10.4	8.7	[6.2]	10.2	10.3
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	5.1	[4.7]	5.8	[4.0]	*	[4.7]	[4.6]
		Total self employed	14.4	13.2	16.2	12.7	9.6	14.9	14.8
		Employee	124.9	127.1	134.8	147.5	159.5	159.6	155.3
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	140.2	141.3	152.6	161.2	169.6	175.0	170.6
J	Information and communication	Self-employed (with paid employees)	[3.5]	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	10.1	10.4	11.4	12.2	11.7	10.2	11.5
		Total self employed	13.7	12.3	13.5	16.2	15.6	13.2	14.4
		Employee	82.7	87.7	91.2	98.2	99.5	104.8	113.1
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	96.4	100.1	104.8	114.4	115.8	118.0	127.8
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	[2.7]	[3.1]	*	*	[4.3]	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	[4.2]	6.1	5.8	[4.5]	[4.3]	[5.5]	[5.7]
		Total self employed	6.9	9.2	8.7	6.6	8.7	8.3	9.5
		Employee	93.9	97.0	98.8	100.0	96.6	102.5	110.1
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	100.9	106.7	107.6	106.5	105.5	111.0	119.6
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	12.5	11.9	13.2	11.9	12.6	9.6	10.8
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	23.6	22.3	20.1	21.1	22.0	23.1	24.5
		Total self employed	36.0	34.2	33.3	33.0	34.6	32.7	35.4
		Employee	90.2	86.0	89.0	96.3	99.2	106.3	113.6
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	126.3	120.7	122.9	130.1	134.2	139.3	149.5
N	Administrative and support service activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	[4.3]	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	7.9	[5.4]	7.5	8.3	9.0	10.7	11.5
		Total self employed	11.2	8.1	10.6	11.7	13.3	14.3	15.6
		Employee	65.2	67.4	74.8	78.9	86.3	96.0	95.8
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	76.9	75.8	85.7	90.7	99.9	110.4	111.8
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total self employed	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employee	87.6	89.5	89.9	92.4	102.1	109.3	115.0
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	88.6	90.8	91.6	93.7	103.5	110.8	115.6
P	Education	Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	4.9	4.7	6.3	5.6	[6.3]	[5.8]	7.3
		Total self employed	6.9	6.6	7.8	7.0	8.8	7.1	9.7
		Employee	139.1	145.2	144.2	150.8	158.2	172.2	182.8
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	146.2	152.0	152.5	157.8	167.0	179.4	192.5
Q	Human health and social work activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	6.1	5.8	[5.4]	[5.5]	[6.8]	[3.6]	[4.6]
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	9.3	9.5	9.4	10.1	11.0	10.7	10.7
		Total self employed	15.3	15.3	14.8	15.6	17.8	14.3	15.3
		Employee	242.0	248.2	252.2	260.0	259.1	271.8	274.5
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	258.9	264.9	268.3	276.4	277.3	286.7	290.0
R-U	Other NACE activities	Self-employed (with paid employees)	6.0	6.2	7.1	7.2	[6.2]	6.4	[6.2]
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	21.4	21.3	22.4	22.3	21.7	23.7	23.5
		Total self employed	27.4	27.5	29.5	29.5	27.9	30.1	29.7
		Employee	78.4	83.8	84.9	85.5	93.1	87.5	86.3
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	106.9	112.3	115.4	115.5	121.4	118.0	116.7
Not stated		Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total self employed	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Employee	*	*	[6.2]	6.6	[6.1]	[6.1]	*
		Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	*	*	[6.6]	7.8	[6.5]	[6.7]	*
All persons		Self-employed (with paid employees)	90.3	91.3	97.1	96.3	100.5	97.5	96.5
		Self-employed (with no paid employees)	228.9	227.8	229.5	221.4	237.9	226.5	235.0
		Total self employed	319.2	319.0	326.6	317.7	338.4	323.9	331.6
		Employee	1,615.5	1,682.0	1,737.3	1,827.6	1,867.5	1,966.8	2,009.2
		Assisting relative	16.0	13.4	16.9	13.1	14.8	11.1	12.7
		Total	1,950.7	2,014.4	2,080.8	2,158.4	2,220.7	2,301.9	2,353.5
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Occupational group/Employment status		Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
a. Managers, directors and senior officials	Self-employed (with paid employees)	38.2	39.0	41.8	44.0	44.7	45.2	47.0
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	26.5	23.9	21.9	19.4	28.2	22.4	25.4
	Total self employed	64.7	62.8	63.7	63.4	72.8	67.5	72.4
	Employee	103.4	108.0	116.2	127.0	115.9	115.3	116.3
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	168.8	171.5	180.6	191.0	189.1	183.1	189.1
b. Professional	Self-employed (with paid employees)	17.2	16.0	17.0	16.8	16.3	11.7	14.9
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	27.6	29.2	30.4	34.5	31.4	30.6	34.2
	Total self employed	44.9	45.1	47.5	51.3	47.7	42.3	49.1
	Employee	350.6	348.6	363.8	378.0	394.6	432.7	460.0
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	396.1	394.4	412.0	429.5	442.9	475.6	509.4
c. Associate professional and technical	Self-employed (with paid employees)	5.0	5.2	[5.0]	[3.9]	[6.3]	[4.6]	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	31.4	30.7	31.6	30.7	28.4	30.8	31.0
	Total self employed	36.4	36.0	36.6	34.6	34.7	35.4	35.1
	Employee	202.6	211.8	224.1	231.0	221.6	233.1	237.2
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	239.7	248.3	261.3	266.0	256.8	268.5	272.6
d. Administrative and secretarial	Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	[3.5]	*	[3.9]	*	*	*	*
	Total self employed	5.2	[3.7]	6.4	[3.7]	[3.9]	[5.0]	[5.4]
	Employee	191.1	193.7	192.6	202.0	209.7	221.2	232.0
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	198.7	199.4	200.8	207.4	216.5	228.5	239.3
e. Skilled trades	Self-employed (with paid employees)	18.4	20.9	21.5	20.2	22.7	23.9	20.7
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	99.8	102.3	101.5	96.3	107.4	101.7	96.4
	Total self employed	118.3	123.2	123.0	116.5	130.1	125.6	117.1
	Employee	149.2	161.8	169.0	186.3	185.3	193.9	196.8
	Assisting relative	[3.7]	[4.3]	[5.0]	[4.2]	*	*	*
	Total	271.2	289.3	297.0	307.0	317.2	321.5	315.1
f. Caring, leisure and other service	Self-employed (with paid employees)	[3.1]	[4.1]	*	[4.2]	*	*	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	8.2	8.1	9.9	9.1	8.9	10.6	13.0
	Total self employed	11.3	12.3	12.8	13.3	12.9	14.1	16.6
	Employee	129.1	146.3	147.0	159.7	177.2	177.1	180.1
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	141.9	159.8	161.6	173.8	190.5	191.8	197.0
g. Sales and customer service	Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	3.8	[3.4]	[3.6]	*	*	*	*
	Total self employed	5.2	[4.1]	5.3	[3.8]	[4.2]	*	[4.4]
	Employee	149.9	161.5	160.6	167.2	176.9	184.6	181.5
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	155.9	166.0	167.3	171.6	182.0	188.7	186.0
h. Process, plant and machine operatives	Self-employed (with paid employees)	[3.7]	*	[3.8]	*	*	*	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	21.8	22.3	20.5	19.4	20.4	18.3	22.1
	Total self employed	25.5	25.1	24.3	22.2	23.2	21.8	24.2
	Employee	120.4	123.4	133.3	138.4	145.9	159.1	160.6
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	146.4	149.4	158.3	161.2	169.3	180.9	186.2
i. Elementary	Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	6.1	5.4	[5.7]	6.5	[6.8]	[5.6]	[4.9]
	Total self employed	7.5	6.6	6.7	7.7	7.8	7.8	[6.5]
	Employee	215.6	221.4	220.5	228.8	228.0	238.4	238.7
	Assisting relative	[4.6]	*	*	[4.0]	7.3	[4.7]	6.8
	Total	227.8	230.7	231.1	240.5	243.1	250.9	252.0
j. Not stated	Self-employed (with paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total self employed	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Employee	3.7	5.4	10.2	9.3	12.3	11.5	[6.1]
	Assisting relative	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Total	4.1	5.6	10.8	10.3	13.3	12.3	[6.8]
All persons	Self-employed (with paid employees)	90.3	91.3	97.1	96.3	100.5	97.5	96.5
	Self-employed (with no paid employees)	228.9	227.8	229.5	221.4	237.9	226.5	235.0
	Total self employed	319.2	319.0	326.6	317.7	338.4	323.9	331.6
	Employee	1,615.5	1,682.0	1,737.3	1,827.6	1,867.5	1,966.8	2,009.2
	Assisting relative	16.0	13.4	16.9	13.1	14.8	11.1	12.7
	Total	1,950.7	2,014.4	2,080.8	2,158.4	2,220.7	2,301.9	2,353.5
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector/Full and part-time status			Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Full-time	89.2	91.3	87.9	87.4	93.1	88.5	88.7
		Part-time	20.3	15.9	20.2	20.3	20.2	15.3	18.6
		Total	109.5	107.2	108.1	107.7	113.3	103.8	107.3
B-F	Total Industry	Full-time	291.0	325.4	338.5	367.1	388.3	402.7	403.6
		Part-time	41.8	39.6	42.6	39.8	28.5	29.6	30.6
		Total	332.8	365.0	381.1	406.9	416.7	432.3	434.2
B-E	Industry	Full-time	222.7	236.6	243.6	258.1	261.4	272.9	267.2
		Part-time	23.0	23.0	23.5	23.9	18.0	14.8	19.3
		Total	245.7	259.6	267.1	282.1	279.4	287.7	286.5
F	Construction	Full-time	68.4	88.8	94.9	109.0	126.8	129.8	136.4
		Part-time	18.7	16.5	19.1	15.9	10.5	14.8	11.3
		Total	87.1	105.4	114.0	124.9	137.3	144.6	147.7
G-U	Total Services	Full-time	1,106.2	1,135.5	1,172.6	1,233.6	1,279.8	1,331.9	1,375.5
		Part-time	401.5	403.3	412.4	402.4	404.4	427.2	432.2
		Total	1,507.7	1,538.8	1,585.0	1,636.0	1,684.1	1,759.1	1,807.7
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	Full-time	183.9	187.6	189.4	208.1	198.3	210.0	210.3
		Part-time	97.5	99.0	101.8	89.9	96.7	94.7	99.5
		Total	281.3	286.7	291.2	298.0	295.0	304.7	309.8
H	Transportation and storage	Full-time	73.1	74.0	76.6	77.7	83.5	93.0	89.0
		Part-time	11.8	13.6	15.8	14.0	11.4	12.8	14.8
		Total	84.9	87.6	92.4	91.7	94.9	105.8	103.7
I	Accommodation and food service activities	Full-time	77.9	80.3	91.6	91.5	101.4	103.5	97.4
		Part-time	62.4	61.0	61.0	69.6	68.2	71.5	73.2
		Total	140.2	141.3	152.6	161.2	169.6	175.0	170.6
J	Information and communication	Full-time	89.4	92.5	97.0	105.8	109.0	109.7	121.8
		Part-time	6.9	7.6	7.8	8.6	[6.8]	8.4	[6.0]
		Total	96.4	100.1	104.8	114.4	115.8	118.0	127.8
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	Full-time	89.8	94.5	98.4	96.9	94.7	100.5	106.7
		Part-time	11.1	12.1	9.2	9.7	10.8	10.5	12.9
		Total	100.9	106.7	107.6	106.5	105.5	111.0	119.6
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	Full-time	108.5	104.4	104.5	110.6	116.3	119.3	129.2
		Part-time	17.9	16.3	18.4	19.5	17.9	20.0	20.3
		Total	126.3	120.7	122.9	130.1	134.2	139.3	149.5
N	Administrative and support service activities	Full-time	53.7	53.6	58.1	63.6	72.5	78.1	82.2
		Part-time	23.2	22.2	27.6	27.1	27.3	32.3	29.6
		Total	76.9	75.8	85.7	90.7	99.9	110.4	111.8
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	Full-time	79.9	80.8	80.2	84.0	91.2	98.0	105.7
		Part-time	8.6	10.0	11.4	9.7	12.3	12.8	9.9
		Total	88.6	90.8	91.6	93.7	103.5	110.8	115.6
P	Education	Full-time	112.2	118.9	119.6	124.8	132.8	139.0	149.6
		Part-time	34.1	33.1	33.0	33.0	34.2	40.4	42.8
		Total	146.2	152.0	152.5	157.8	167.0	179.4	192.5
Q	Human health and social work activities	Full-time	174.1	181.0	185.8	196.5	205.1	211.1	211.6
		Part-time	84.8	83.9	82.4	79.9	72.2	75.6	78.4
		Total	258.9	264.9	268.3	276.4	277.3	286.7	290.0
R-U	Other NACE activities	Full-time	63.7	67.8	71.5	74.2	74.9	69.6	71.9
		Part-time	43.2	44.5	44.0	41.3	46.5	48.4	44.8
		Total	106.9	112.3	115.4	115.5	121.4	118.0	116.7
Not stated		Full-time	*	*	[5.4]	6.0	[5.1]	[5.9]	*
		Part-time	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total	*	*	[6.6]	7.8	[6.5]	[6.7]	*
Total		Full-time	1,486.8	1,555.0	1,604.4	1,694.1	1,766.3	1,828.9	1,871.7
		Part-time	463.9	459.4	476.5	464.2	454.4	473.0	481.8
		Total	1,950.7	2,014.4	2,080.8	2,158.4	2,220.7	2,301.9	2,353.5
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 7 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by occupational group (UK SOC2010) and full-time/part-time status
'000
Occupational group/Full and part-time status			Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	Full-time	155.3	157.8	168.6	179.2	175.3	170.1	176.4
		Part-time	13.5	13.7	12.0	11.8	13.8	13.0	12.7
		Total	168.8	171.5	180.6	191.0	189.1	183.1	189.1
2.	Professional	Full-time	342.1	340.3	361.2	375.8	390.9	414.6	445.7
		Part-time	54.1	54.1	50.8	53.7	52.0	60.9	63.7
		Total	396.1	394.4	412.0	429.5	442.9	475.6	509.4
3.	Associate professional and technical	Full-time	204.9	213.2	224.0	234.1	230.1	235.8	239.7
		Part-time	34.8	35.1	37.4	31.9	26.7	32.7	32.8
		Total	239.7	248.3	261.3	266.0	256.8	268.5	272.6
4.	Administrative and secretarial	Full-time	142.2	143.0	138.9	149.2	156.9	164.8	177.1
		Part-time	56.5	56.4	61.9	58.2	59.7	63.6	62.1
		Total	198.7	199.4	200.8	207.4	216.5	228.5	239.3
5.	Skilled trades	Full-time	231.0	249.6	253.2	265.8	284.9	290.9	285.1
		Part-time	40.2	39.7	43.7	41.2	32.3	30.6	30.0
		Total	271.2	289.3	297.0	307.0	317.2	321.5	315.1
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	Full-time	76.4	91.1	92.7	106.9	122.8	124.4	125.6
		Part-time	65.5	68.7	68.9	66.9	67.7	67.4	71.4
		Total	141.9	159.8	161.6	173.8	190.5	191.8	197.0
7.	Sales and customer service	Full-time	79.1	88.5	88.7	96.0	101.7	111.3	106.8
		Part-time	76.8	77.5	78.6	75.6	80.3	77.4	79.2
		Total	155.9	166.0	167.3	171.6	182.0	188.7	186.0
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	Full-time	123.6	129.2	131.9	139.2	152.7	165.4	166.7
		Part-time	22.8	20.2	26.3	22.0	16.6	15.5	19.5
		Total	146.4	149.4	158.3	161.2	169.3	180.9	186.2
9.	Elementary	Full-time	128.9	137.5	136.2	139.4	139.9	140.6	142.2
		Part-time	98.9	93.2	94.9	101.1	103.2	110.3	109.7
		Total	227.8	230.7	231.1	240.5	243.1	250.9	252.0
Other/Not stated		Full-time	3.4	4.9	8.9	8.6	11.3	10.9	[6.3]
		Part-time	*	*	*	[1.7]	*	*	*
		Total	4.1	5.6	10.8	10.3	13.3	12.3	[6.8]
Total		Full-time	1,486.8	1,555.0	1,604.4	1,694.1	1,766.3	1,828.9	1,871.7
		Part-time	463.9	459.4	476.5	464.2	454.4	473.0	481.8
		Total	1,950.7	2,014.4	2,080.8	2,158.4	2,220.7	2,301.9	2,353.5
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 8 Average usual hours worked per week for persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by NACE Rev. 2 Economic Sector
Average usual hours worked per week
NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector		Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	45.9	49.5	48.0	47.1	50.2	49.5	47.5
B-F	Total Industry	38.5	38.9	38.8	39.1	40.0	40.1	40.0
B-E	Industry	38.9	39.0	38.9	39.0	39.7	39.8	39.5
F	Construction	37.2	38.6	38.6	39.2	40.8	40.6	41.2
G-U	Total Services	34.3	34.2	34.5	34.4	34.7	34.8	34.7
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	33.3	32.9	33.3	33.5	33.4	33.5	33.5
H	Transportation and storage	38.5	38.6	39.7	38.2	39.9	39.2	38.8
I	Accommodation and food service activities	31.1	31.1	31.6	30.7	31.6	31.7	30.7
J	Information and communication	39.6	39.6	39.8	39.2	39.7	39.7	40.1
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	38.2	38.3	38.7	38.8	38.3	38.9	37.8
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	38.6	38.9	39.0	38.9	39.0	39.1	39.4
N	Administrative and support service activities	33.7	33.2	33.4	34.0	34.2	34.5	34.1
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	37.8	37.5	37.4	37.3	37.2	37.1	38.3
P	Education	29.9	29.7	29.6	29.6	30.7	30.7	30.2
Q	Human health and social work activities	32.8	33.2	33.2	33.5	33.4	33.8	33.7
R-U	Other NACE activities	31.6	30.9	31.2	32.1	31.4	30.5	30.6
Not stated		*	*	[36.1]	[36.6]	[34.7]	[37.8]	*
Total		35.5	35.7	35.8	35.8	36.4	36.4	36.2
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 9 Average usual hours worked per week for persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by occupational group (UK SOC2010)
Average usual hours worked per week
Occupational group		Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	42.4	42.5	43.0	42.6	43.7	43.7	43.6
2.	Professional	36.2	36.1	36.5	36.3	36.8	37.0	37.0
3.	Associate professional and technical	37.9	37.7	37.6	38.1	38.0	38.1	38.1
4.	Administrative and secretarial	33.3	33.0	32.6	32.8	32.7	32.8	33.3
5.	Skilled trades	40.9	41.9	41.5	41.4	43.7	42.9	42.3
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	29.3	29.9	29.9	30.4	30.3	31.0	30.3
7.	Sales and customer service	29.0	29.2	29.4	29.6	29.4	30.1	29.4
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	37.8	38.3	38.3	38.4	39.7	39.5	39.3
9.	Elementary	30.4	30.6	30.5	30.2	30.1	29.5	29.4
Other/Not stated		37.6	38.1	36.0	37.8	36.2	37.8	[40.1]
Total		35.5	35.7	35.8	35.8	36.4	36.4	36.2
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 10 Average usual hours worked per week for persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by employment status
Average usual hours worked per week
Employment status	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
Self-employed (with paid employees)	46.1	48.4	48.6	48.8	48.9	49.2	48.8
Self-employed (with no paid employees)	41.7	42.7	41.8	42.9	43.8	43.2	42.5
Total self employed	43.0	44.4	43.9	44.8	45.4	45.1	44.4
Employee	34.6	34.5	34.7	34.7	35.1	35.2	35.1
Assisting relative	26.9	28.6	26.3	26.0	16.5	14.8	12.8
Total	35.5	35.7	35.8	35.8	36.4	36.4	36.2
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 11 Average usual hours worked per week for persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by full-time/part-time status
Average usual hours worked per week
Full and part-time status	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
Full-time	40.2	40.3	40.5	40.3	40.8	40.7	40.6
Part-time	19.1	19.1	19.1	18.8	18.5	18.6	18.4
Total	35.5	35.7	35.8	35.8	36.4	36.4	36.2
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 12 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by detailed duration of employment
'000
Detailed duration of employment	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
Less than 3 months	70.9	72.8	76.7	66.5	93.1	95.7	82.7
3-5 months	84.3	93.2	96.7	94.6	103.7	119.1	115.6
6-11 months	122.4	132.2	147.2	163.6	149.2	165.3	170.1
Total less than 1 year	277.6	298.2	320.6	324.6	345.9	380.2	368.5
12-17 months	99.3	101.2	120.6	130.0	129.6	135.0	144.7
18-23 months	64.5	62.0	77.1	88.2	89.9	87.6	104.1
24-47 months	147.2	165.8	173.2	211.3	228.5	227.4	253.3
48 months and greater	1,309.8	1,333.6	1,315.7	1,318.0	1,299.4	1,377.5	1,399.6
Total 1 year and over	1,620.8	1,662.6	1,686.5	1,747.6	1,747.4	1,827.5	1,901.7
Not stated	52.4	53.6	73.7	86.2	127.4	94.2	83.3
Total	1,950.7	2,014.4	2,080.8	2,158.4	2,220.7	2,301.9	2,353.5
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 13 Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by number of persons working in local place of employment
'000
Detailed local place of employment	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
1 to 4 persons	227.0	228.1	218.0	201.8	234.0	224.6	216.6
5 to 10 persons	232.2	233.6	238.1	237.4	242.7	247.9	266.2
Not sure but less than 11 persons	*	[3.3]	*	5.6	31.7	30.7	22.2
Total less than 11 persons	461.9	464.9	458.7	444.8	508.3	503.2	505.0

11 to 19 persons	142.1	152.2	162.6	179.7	184.5	178.0	195.1
20-49 persons	250.0	247.7	256.3	285.0	263.2	278.0	290.8
Total 11 to 49 persons	392.1	399.9	418.9	464.7	447.7	456.0	485.9

Total less than 50 persons	854.0	864.8	877.6	909.5	956.0	959.2	990.9

50-99 persons	159.2	167.1	172.6	186.5	:	199.7	200.7
100 to 249 persons	175.3	174.3	169.7	181.0	:	211.1	224.5
Total 50 to 249 persons	334.5	341.4	342.3	367.5	:	410.8	425.3

250 to 500 persons	120.8	126.8	128.0	131.9	:	152.5	150.6
Total 100 to 500 persons	296.0	301.0	297.7	312.9	:	363.6	375.1

501 persons or more	199.7	205.7	239.5	267.0	:	323.6	330.3
Total 50 persons or more	655.0	673.8	709.8	766.3	830.0	887.0	906.1

Not stated	212.8	248.0	263.9	261.1	196.8	229.3	221.4
Not applicable - Self-employed person with no employees	228.9	227.8	229.5	221.4	237.9	226.5	235.0
Total	1,950.7	2,014.4	2,080.8	2,158.4	2,220.7	2,301.9	2,353.5
: Data not available for the period Q3 2017 to Q3 2018
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 14 Persons aged 15 years and over in full and part-time employment (ILO) classified by reasons for being in part-time employment
'000
Full-time employment/Reasons for part-time employment		Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
Full-time		1,486.8	1,555.0	1,604.4	1,694.1	1,766.3	1,828.9	1,871.7
Part-time		463.9	459.4	476.5	464.2	454.4	473.0	481.8
of which:	Person is undergoing school education or training	63.8	66.7	72.7	84.2	97.2	102.9	121.1
	Of own illness or disability	4.4	7.0	6.4	6.7	13.3	11.7	13.0
	Looking after children or incapacitated adults	67.3	72.7	77.0	79.2	88.3	88.6	93.5
	Other personal or family reasons	75.6	86.7	108.5	112.0	120.0	131.4	123.1
	Person could not find a full-time job	179.6	164.2	146.1	123.1	75.0	75.7	62.7
	Of other reasons	42.6	36.5	43.6	42.8	55.6	60.7	66.9
	Not stated	30.6	25.5	22.2	16.2	[4.9]	*	*
Total		1,950.7	2,014.4	2,080.8	2,158.4	2,220.7	2,301.9	2,353.5
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 15 Employees aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by NACE Rev. 2 Economic Sector and permanency of employment
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NACE Rev.2 Economic Sector/Permanency of employment			Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
A	Agriculture, forestry and fishing	Permanent employees	22.6	22.7	23.0	23.5	21.1	21.9	25.4
		Temporary employees	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	26.7	26.1	26.5	27.7	24.6	25.8	29.8
B-F	Total Industry	Permanent employees	250.5	274.1	288.8	322.7	326.0	342.2	344.3
		Temporary employees	22.5	27.1	23.5	19.1	22.4	21.3	23.3
		Not stated	4.7	[4.2]	6.3	[3.6]	*	*	*
		Total employees	277.6	305.3	318.6	345.3	349.1	364.9	369.2
B-E	Industry	Permanent employees	204.8	218.3	227.9	247.0	244.6	253.7	251.0
		Temporary employees	17.0	19.1	15.1	11.4	14.4	14.1	15.0
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	224.0	238.9	244.8	259.1	259.4	268.7	267.0
F	Construction	Permanent employees	45.6	55.8	60.9	75.6	81.4	88.5	93.3
		Temporary employees	5.4	7.9	8.4	7.7	8.1	7.3	8.3
		Not stated	[2.6]	[2.7]	[4.4]	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	53.6	66.4	73.8	86.2	89.7	96.2	102.2
G-U	Total Services	Permanent employees	1,159.6	1,206.7	1,253.9	1,316.4	1,337.6	1,409.6	1,438.8
		Temporary employees	135.3	126.5	116.4	116.4	146.1	152.4	159.0
		Not stated	15.7	14.6	15.7	15.2	*	8.0	8.4
		Total employees	1,310.6	1,347.7	1,385.9	1,448.0	1,487.7	1,570.0	1,606.3
G	Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles	Permanent employees	217.1	220.7	230.6	243.5	236.6	244.7	245.7
		Temporary employees	24.0	27.3	23.1	19.8	24.1	26.6	26.9
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	243.3	249.9	255.9	265.9	261.9	273.4	274.7
H	Transportation and storage	Permanent employees	59.1	61.5	66.2	69.2	67.0	83.0	79.2
		Temporary employees	[3.9]	[4.2]	[3.7]	*	[4.9]	*	[5.4]
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	63.3	65.8	70.2	72.6	72.0	86.6	85.0
I	Accommodation and food service activities	Permanent employees	101.6	106.1	116.1	125.5	134.5	129.5	127.8
		Temporary employees	22.7	20.3	18.1	20.1	24.5	28.8	26.4
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	124.9	127.1	134.8	147.5	159.5	159.6	155.3
J	Information and communication	Permanent employees	76.7	83.0	85.2	94.2	93.9	98.2	107.6
		Temporary employees	5.6	[4.3]	[5.2]	*	[5.6]	[5.7]	[5.3]
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	82.7	87.7	91.2	98.2	99.5	104.8	113.1
K-L	Financial, insurance and real estate activities	Permanent employees	87.7	91.5	94.9	95.2	91.8	98.7	105.5
		Temporary employees	5.7	[5.0]	*	[4.6]	[4.8]	*	*
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	93.9	97.0	98.8	100.0	96.6	102.5	110.1
M	Professional, scientific and technical activities	Permanent employees	82.3	79.2	82.8	89.0	92.7	99.7	106.5
		Temporary employees	7.0	5.9	[5.4]	6.6	[6.4]	[6.5]	[6.7]
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	90.2	86.0	89.0	96.3	99.2	106.3	113.6
N	Administrative and support service activities	Permanent employees	56.4	61.2	66.1	69.4	77.1	87.2	85.5
		Temporary employees	7.5	[5.5]	[6.8]	7.4	9.2	7.9	9.2
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	65.2	67.4	74.8	78.9	86.3	96.0	95.8
O	Public administration and defence; compulsory social security	Permanent employees	84.3	85.9	85.4	88.5	96.3	103.5	109.5
		Temporary employees	[2.7]	[2.9]	[3.5]	[3.6]	[5.7]	[5.6]	[5.5]
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	87.6	89.5	89.9	92.4	102.1	109.3	115.0
P	Education	Permanent employees	115.9	126.3	123.6	130.2	133.3	144.8	151.2
		Temporary employees	21.5	17.6	18.7	19.4	24.4	26.7	30.8
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	139.1	145.2	144.2	150.8	158.2	172.2	182.8
Q	Human health and social work activities	Permanent employees	214.2	224.6	230.4	239.7	238.0	249.2	248.6
		Temporary employees	23.1	19.4	17.9	16.8	20.1	21.5	24.6
		Not stated	4.7	[4.2]	[3.9]	[3.5]	*	*	*
		Total employees	242.0	248.2	252.2	260.0	259.1	271.8	274.5
R-U	Other NACE activities	Permanent employees	64.2	66.7	72.6	71.9	76.5	71.3	71.8
		Temporary employees	11.5	14.2	10.4	11.6	16.3	16.1	14.2
		Not stated	[2.8]	[2.9]	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	78.4	83.8	84.9	85.5	93.1	87.5	86.3
Not stated		Permanent employees	*	*	*	[4.4]	[4.8]	[4.9]	*
		Temporary employees	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	*	*	[6.2]	6.6	[6.1]	[6.1]	*
Total		Permanent employees	1,433.0	1,505.4	1,569.7	1,667.0	1,689.6	1,778.5	1,812.2
		Temporary employees	161.1	157.6	143.6	139.6	172.4	177.2	186.7
		Not stated	21.3	19.0	24.0	21.0	[5.5]	11.1	10.4
		Total employees	1,615.5	1,682.0	1,737.3	1,827.6	1,867.5	1,966.8	2,009.2
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Table 16 Employees aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by occupational group (UK SOC2010) and permanency of employment
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Occupational group/Permanency of employment			Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20

1.	Managers, directors and senior officials	Permanent employees	100.2	105.3	113.4	123.8	112.8	113.1	114.1
		Temporary employees	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	103.4	108.0	116.2	127.0	115.9	115.3	116.3
2.	Professional	Permanent employees	315.4	320.2	336.6	350.2	361.8	395.6	416.6
		Temporary employees	33.9	27.2	25.9	27.1	32.0	35.7	41.6
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	350.6	348.6	363.8	378.0	394.6	432.7	460.0
3.	Associate professional and technical	Permanent employees	188.5	198.5	210.9	218.5	207.6	218.2	221.3
		Temporary employees	11.8	11.4	10.6	10.8	13.5	14.2	15.1
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	202.6	211.8	224.1	231.0	221.6	233.1	237.2
4.	Administrative and secretarial	Permanent employees	174.6	177.8	178.3	188.4	192.9	204.5	214.6
		Temporary employees	13.8	13.6	12.1	12.5	16.7	16.1	16.8
		Not stated	[2.7]	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	191.1	193.7	192.6	202.0	209.7	221.2	232.0
5.	Skilled trades	Permanent employees	133.2	145.3	155.1	172.1	175.6	182.1	182.5
		Temporary employees	12.8	13.7	10.1	9.9	9.6	10.7	12.6
		Not stated	[3.3]	[2.8]	[3.8]	[4.3]	*	*	*
		Total employees	149.2	161.8	169.0	186.3	185.3	193.9	196.8
6.	Caring, leisure and other services	Permanent employees	108.9	126.0	125.2	138.4	153.7	156.6	159.1
		Temporary employees	16.2	16.5	17.7	17.9	23.2	19.4	20.1
		Not stated	[4.0]	[3.8]	[4.1]	[3.5]	*	*	*
		Total employees	129.1	146.3	147.0	159.7	177.2	177.1	180.1
7.	Sales and customer service	Permanent employees	126.7	137.3	140.0	147.3	152.4	158.7	154.3
		Temporary employees	21.8	23.1	19.5	17.7	23.3	23.7	24.5
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	149.9	161.5	160.6	167.2	176.9	184.6	181.5
8.	Process, plant and machine operatives	Permanent employees	106.5	109.9	118.0	129.1	133.0	148.2	148.0
		Temporary employees	11.9	12.2	13.8	8.4	12.4	10.5	11.6
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	120.4	123.4	133.3	138.4	145.9	159.1	160.6
9.	Elementary	Permanent employees	176.6	180.9	185.3	192.1	190.0	193.1	196.0
		Temporary employees	35.7	36.8	30.3	31.8	37.2	43.2	41.7
		Not stated	[3.4]	[3.8]	[4.9]	[4.9]	*	*	*
		Total employees	215.6	221.4	220.5	228.8	228.0	238.4	238.7
Other/Not stated		Permanent employees	2.6	4.1	6.9	7.1	9.9	8.5	[5.7]
		Temporary employees	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Not stated	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
		Total employees	3.7	5.4	10.2	9.3	12.3	11.5	[6.1]
Total		Permanent employees	1,433.0	1,505.4	1,569.7	1,667.0	1,689.6	1,778.5	1,812.2
		Temporary employees	161.1	157.6	143.6	139.6	172.4	177.2	186.7
		Not stated	21.3	19.0	24.0	21.0	[5.5]	11.1	10.4
		Total employees	1,615.5	1,682.0	1,737.3	1,827.6	1,867.5	1,966.8	2,009.2
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Home work	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
Person usually works at home	80.3	74.6	77.5	75.2	160.4	160.4	206.5
Person sometimes works at home	214.7	191.9	185.2	238.6	287.6	289.8	336.1
Person never works at home	1,651.8	1,744.3	1,809.9	1,838.8	1,768.6	1,848.7	1,807.7
Not stated	[3.9]	[3.6]	8.2	[5.8]	*	*	*
Total	1,950.7	2,014.4	2,080.8	2,158.4	2,220.7	2,301.9	2,353.5
Source: Labour Force Survey (LFS), Central Statistics Office, Ireland.
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Reason for being in temporary employment	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
It is a contract covering a period of training	19.6	19.8	18.8	9.9	15.2	21.9	21.4
Person could not find a permanent job	80.8	79.3	68.3	68.6	55.3	50.4	41.4
Person did not want a permanent job	24.0	27.0	24.6	25.5	35.1	38.9	43.1
It is a contract for a probationary period	5.7	[5.8]	*	*	15.0	15.5	19.6
Not stated	31.1	25.7	27.9	32.6	51.8	50.6	61.1
Total	161.1	157.6	143.6	139.6	172.4	177.2	186.7
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Supervisory duties	Q1 14	Q1 15	Q1 16	Q1 17	Q1 18	Q1 19	Q1 20
Person is a supervisor	428.6	454.8	483.3	512.4	553.0	585.4	619.6
Person is not a supervisor	1,166.8	1,210.2	1,232.5	1,296.9	1,300.3	1,370.1	1,376.3
Not stated	20.1	17.0	21.5	18.3	14.3	11.3	13.2
Total	1,615.5	1,682.0	1,737.3	1,827.6	1,867.5	1,966.8	2,009.2
Note: A new Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) in Q3 2017 and, as a result, care should be taken when comparing data from before and after this period. Please see background notes of the LFS release for additional information.

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Purpose of Survey

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) replaced the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) at the beginning of Q3 2017. The purpose of the survey is the production of quarterly labour force estimates and occasional reports on special social topics. The survey meets the requirements of Council Regulation (EC) No. 577/98, adopted in March 1998, which requires the introduction of quarterly labour force surveys in EU member states.

Reference Period

Information is collected continuously throughout the year from households surveyed each week in each quarter. Up to and including the fourth quarter of 2008 the QNHS operated on a seasonal quarter basis since its establishment in Q4 1997. The LFS is undertaken on a calendar quarter basis which was first adopted in the QNHS in the first quarter of 2009.

The reference quarters for survey results are:

Q1 - January to March, Q2 - April to June, Q3 - July to September and Q4 - October to December

Data Collection

The LFS is conducted using mixed mode data collection with the introduction of Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI). As with the QNHS, information is collected from each sample household over 5 successive quarters or Waves. However, in the LFS, the first interview is conducted by a team of face-to-face interviewers using Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI). The four follow-up interviews are conducted using CATI from a dedicated call centre, where householders have agreed to conduct a telephone interview, and are conducted using face-to-face interviews where householders have not agreed to conduct a telephone interview.

Users should note that, as referenced in our Press Statement of 20 March 2020, the CSO had to suspend direct face-to-face interviews for the LFS (and other household surveys) due to the social distancing measures introduced in Ireland because of COVID-19. Consequently, all interviews for the LFS since then have been carried out using CATI.

Sample Design

A new sample based on the 2016 Census of Population was introduced on a phased basis (over five quarters) from Q2 2019 and will be fully operational in Q2 2020. As with the expiring sample below, the new sample is stratified using administrative county and the Pobal HP (Hasse and Pratschke) Deprivation Index and consists of 32,500 households per quarter.

The previous sample was based on the 2011 Census of Population and was introduced incrementally from Q1 2016 and expired in Q1 2019. The sample was stratified using administrative county and the Pobal HP (Haase and Pratschke) Deprivation Index. A two-stage sample design was used. In the first stage 1,300 blocks were selected using Probability Proportional to Size (PPS) sampling. In the second stage households were selected using Simple Random Sampling (SRS). This ensured each household in the sample frame had an equal probability of selection.

To account for the additional attrition resulting from the introduction of mixed mode data collection, the LFS sample up to Q1 2019 was increased incrementally from Q3 2017. An additional 1,300 households were included in Wave 1 for each quarter up to Q3 2018 and this has resulted in a total sample of 32,500 from Q3 2018 onwards. The actual achieved sample varies over time depending on the level of response.

The number of valid responding households for the LFS in Q1 2020 was 13,714.

Households are asked to take part in the survey for five consecutive quarters and are then replaced by other households in the same block. Thus, one fifth of the households in the survey are replaced each quarter and the QNHS/LFS sample involves an overlap of 80% between consecutive quarters and 20% between the same quarter in consecutive years. It is important to note that there is no overlap in sample between the QNHS and the LFS.

The survey results are weighted to agree with population estimates broken down by age, sex and region (the regions have changed from Q1 2018 – see below) and are also calibrated to nationality control totals. The LFS results also contain a non-response adjustment to make the results from the achieved sample representative of the target sample and the population. The population estimates for April of each year are published in a separate release.

New samples, both based on the 2011 Census of Population, were introduced incrementally for the QNHS in Q4 2012 and in Q3 2016. The former was stratified using administrative county and population density while the latter was stratified using administrative county and the Pobal HP (Haase and Pratschke) Deprivation Index. The quarterly sample in each case was 26,000 households. The actual achieved sample varied over time depending on the level of response.

Households with all persons aged 75 and over and classified as inactive

Households which contain only respondents who are aged 75 or over who are each classified as Inactive (Not in the Labour Force) are not re-interviewed. This is to reduce unnecessary burden and instead answers are copied forward from the last available interview.

Usual residence and de facto population concepts

Up to and including Q1 2006 the annual population estimates were calculated using the defacto definition of population (i.e. all persons present in the state). Since Q2 2006 a new concept of usual residence has been used, i.e. all persons usually resident and present in the state plus absent persons who are usually resident in Ireland but are temporarily away from home and outside the state.

ILO Labour Force Classification

The primary classification used for the LFS results is the ILO (International Labour Office) labour force classification. Labour Force Survey data on this basis have been published since 1988. The ILO classification distinguishes the following main subgroups of the population aged 15 or over:

In Employment: Persons who worked in the week before the survey for one hour or more for payment or profit, including work on the family farm or business and all persons who had a job but were not at work because of illness, holidays etc. in the week.

Unemployed: Persons who, in the week before the survey, were without work and available for work within the next two weeks, and had taken specific steps, in the preceding four weeks, to find work. It should be noted that as per Eurostat’s operational implementation, the upper age limit for classifying a person as unemployed is 74 years.

Inactive Population (not in labour force): All other persons.

The labour force comprises persons employed plus unemployed.

The data presented in this release are related to persons classified as being in employment only.

NACE Industrial Classification

The LFS sectoral employment figures are based on the EU NACE Rev. 2 (Nomenclature généraledes activités économiques dans les Communauté européenne) classification as defined in Council Regulation (EC) no 1893/2006. Fourteen NACE sub-categories are distinguished in Tables 3, 4, 6, 8 and 14 of this release. From Q1 2009 NACE Rev. 2 has been adopted as the primary classification of industrial sectors for use in QNHS/LFS outputs. The NACE Rev. 1.1 classification had been in use from Q4 1997 to Q4 2008.

To facilitate analysis and the running of seasonal adjustment on the time series, NACE Rev. 2 estimates have been produced from Q1 1998 onwards. As of Q2 2009 only NACE Rev. 2 estimates have been published.

Occupation Classification

As a result of changes to the European regulations governing the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (implemented in Ireland using the LFS (formerly the QNHS) the CSO has been obliged to report occupational coding data to Eurostat based on the new Europe wide classification ISCO-08 from Q1 2011 onwards. To allow this requirement to be met the CSO changed to using UK SOC2010 as the primary classification used in collecting the data. ISCO-08 is then derived from UK SOC2010.

The previously used classification for publication purposes in Ireland was UK SOC1990 and this cannot be directly compared to the new UK SOC2010 classification as all occupations have been reclassified accordingly. This newer classification reflects the evolution over a period of time of certain occupational areas which were developing rapidly, both in terms of their scale and the complexity of work organisation. One particular example which highlighted this change was the reclassifying of farmers from the major occupation grouping of ‘Managers and administrators’ in SOC1990 to the major occupation grouping of ‘Skilled trades’ in SOC2010.

Results for occupations coded to the new SOC2010 classification have now been recoded for historical quarters back to Q1 2007 to provide a longer and consistent time series for users.

Further information regarding SOC 2010 is available here.

NUTS2 and NUTS3 Regions

The regional classifications in this release are based on the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units) classification used by Eurostat. Until Q4 2017, the NUTS3 regions corresponded to the eight Regional Authorities established under the Local Government Act, 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order, 1993, which came into operation on 1 January 1994 while the NUTS2 regions, which were proposed by Government and agreed by Eurostat in 1999, were groupings of those historic NUTS3 regions.

However, the NUTS3 boundaries were amended on 21^st of November 2016 under Regulation (EC) No. 2066/2016 and have come into force from Q1 2018. These new groupings are reflected in the LFS results from Q1 2012 onwards. The changes resulting from the amendment are that County Louth has moved from the Border to the Mid-East and what was formerly South Tipperary has moved from the South-East to the Mid-West, resulting in the new NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions:

Northern & Western Region		Southern Region		Eastern & Midland Region
Border	Cavan	Mid-West	Clare	Dublin	Dublin City
	Donegal		Limerick City and		Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown
	Leitrim		County		Fingal
	Monaghan		Tipperary		South Dublin
	Sligo
		South-East	Carlow	Mid-East	Kildare
West	Galway City		Kilkenny		Meath
	Galway County		Waterford City and		Wicklow
	Mayo		County		Louth
	Roscommon		Wexford
				Midland	Laois
		South-West	Cork City		Longford
			Cork County		Offaly
			Kerry		Westmeath

Non-response adjustment

Non-response occurs when households that are sampled, and that are eligible for the survey, do not provide the requested information. This can lead to biased survey estimates if specific groups within the population are over-or under-represented and if these groups behave differently with respect to the survey variables (i.e. labour market outcomes). To correct for this, the CSO has introduced a non-response adjustment into the weighting procedure for the LFS.

The adjustment involves estimating response rates or propensities to respond as functions of characteristics available for responding and non-responding households, as well as characteristics of the areas where the households are located. Basically, the design weights must be inflated by the inverse of the response propensities to compensate for the loss of units in the sample.

Linking the LFS sample with the Census of Population at household level provides a set of auxiliary variables which are available for both responding and non-responding LFS households. These include a mix of personal characteristics as well as characteristics of the dwelling and location (e.g. gender, age, marital status, education, personal employment status, dwelling type, area etc.). This allows the CSO to compare responding and non-responding households with respect to the characteristics available from the Census. This auxiliary information allows the use of “response propensities” to model non-response and adjust the grossing factors to compensate for non-response.

The response propensities are calculated using a logistic regression model where the dependent variable (Y) is an indicator variable corresponding to response (if the household responded then Y=1 and if the household did not respond then Y=0) and the independent variables are the set of auxiliary variables available from the Census. The estimated response propensities are then used to form adjustment cells or strata which are made up of respondents and non-respondents with similar estimated response propensities. Respondents within each cell/stratum are then weighted by the inverse of the observed response rate in that cell. This non-response adjusted weight is then used to inflate the original survey design weight to account for non-response. This approach is referred to as response propensity classification.

Back-casting methodology

The introduction of the LFS in Q3 2017 constituted a break in series for the labour market estimates published by the CSO. To mitigate the effect of the introduction of the LFS on the coherence of the historic data series, a back-casting exercise was carried out to link the QNHS and the LFS. The result of this is that the published QNHS series from Q1 1998 to Q2 2017 has been revised.

As part of the roll-out of the LFS, a parallel run of the two surveys was carried out. This allowed the estimation of the effect of the introduction of the new survey on the various labour market estimates. Quarter 1 of 2017 was used as the reference period to calculate scaling factors which were used to link the results from the two surveys. Labour market estimates were calculated from both surveys for a range of cohorts (age, sex, ILO status etc.) and the ratio of the two estimates provided a scaling factor which was applied to the historic QNHS series to create a back-cast series.

In Q3 2017, separate scaling factors were calculated for ILO status by age and sex together with the 14 economic sector categories by sex:

ILO status (Employed, Unemployed, Inactive) by sex (Male and Female) and by age (15-24 years and 25+ years)
NACE Rev. 2 groups by sex (Male and Female)

In Q1 2018, additional scaling factors were calculated for the eight NUTS3 regions by Labour Force ILO status, occupation categories and highest level of education completed (supplementary table 8 of this release) by sex:

NUTS3 Regions (pre-Q1 2018 groupings) by Labour Force ILO status (Employed and Unemployed)
Occupation groups (table 4 of this release)
Highest level of education completed supplementary table 8 of this release) by sex (Male and Female)

Therefore, adjustments have been made to this historic data to enable comparability with the new LFS for these indicators. However, because of changes to the questionnaire, the interview mode, the introduction of a new sample, data processing changes and other methodological enhancements there are changes in the levels of some series from Q3 2017 onwards. Consequently, the series before and after the introduction of the new survey may not be directly comparable and users should therefore note this when examining annual and quarterly changes.

Please refer to the following information notes for further details:

Labour Force Survey, Information Notice, Quarter 3 2017

Labour Force Survey, Information Notice, Quarter 1 2018

Labour Force Survey, Information Notice, Quarter 2 2018

Information Note on Implications of COVID-19 on the Labour Force Survey

Reliability of Estimates Presented

Estimates for number of persons where there are less than 30 persons in a cell are too small to be considered reliable. These estimates are presented with an asterisk (*) in the relevant tables.

Where there are 30-49 persons in a cell, estimates are considered to have a wider margin of error and should be treated with caution. These cells are presented with parentheses [ ].

In the case of rates, these limits apply to the denominator used in generating the rate. In the case of annual changes, both the current year and the preceding year are taken into account when deciding whether the estimate should be suppressed or flagged as having a wider margin of error.

Calculation of Rates and Estimates of Change

Rates and estimates of change presented in this release are calculated from whole unrounded numbers. Due to rounding, these may differ from the rates and estimates of change calculated from the rounded volumes presented in the tables.

Main LFS release and data series

The quarterly LFS release can be accessed through the CSO website and is available, along with other additional series here.

Labour market data can also be accessed from Statbank, the CSO’s main data dissemination service which can be accessed through the CSO website here.

Implications of Census 2016 Final Results

The LFS results are weighted using population estimates which are updated every quarter. Every 5 years the Census of Population results are used to revise these population estimates, and consequently QNHS/LFS results are revised.

The population concept of usual residence is used for the LFS, i.e. all persons usually resident and present in the State plus absent persons who are usually resident in Ireland but are temporarily away from home and outside the State.

The final Census count was published on April 6, 2017. The total for this usually resident population concept which was enumerated on Census Night, April 24, 2016, was 4,739,597 persons, while the existing estimate for the usually resident population for April 2016 is 4,673,700 as detailed in the 2016 Population and Migration Estimates release. There is a difference, therefore, of just over 65,900 or 1.4% between the two figures.

The CSO has revised the population estimates for 2011 to 2016 based on this final Census count. Estimates of persons employed and unemployed have been revised in line with the higher population totals.

Participating Households

The Central Statistics Office wishes to thank the participating households for their co-operation in agreeing to take part in the survey and for facilitating the collection of the relevant data.

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Statistics in this publication are based on population estimates which have not been updated following Census 2022. See LFS Background Notes.

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Labour Force Survey (LFS) Employment Series

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Background Notes

Purpose of Survey

Reference Period

Data Collection

Sample Design

Households with all persons aged 75 and over and classified as inactive

Usual residence and de facto population concepts

ILO Labour Force Classification

NACE Industrial Classification

Occupation Classification

NUTS2 and NUTS3 Regions

Non-response adjustment

Back-casting methodology

Reliability of Estimates Presented

Calculation of Rates and Estimates of Change

Main LFS release and data series

Implications of Census 2016 Final Results

Participating Households

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