Public sector employment in Scotland: statistics for first quarter 2021

Statistics based on administrative records and surveys of individual public sector bodies carried out by the Scottish Government and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is a snapshot of employment as at March 2021.


List of Tables

Table 1: Number of people employed by public and private sector; Scotland, Headcount

Table 2: Public sector employment by devolved and reserved sector; Scotland, Headcount and Full-time equivalent

Table 3: Total devolved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Headcount

Table 4: Total reserved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Headcount

Table 5: Devolved civil service employment; Scotland, Headcount

Table 6: Reserved civil service employment; Scotland, Headcount

Table 7: Total devolved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Full-time equivalent

Table 8: Total reserved public sector employment by sector; Scotland, Full-time equivalent

Table 9: Devolved civil service employment; Scotland, Full-time equivalent

Table 10: Reserved civil service employment; Scotland, Full-time equivalent

Table S1: Youth (16-24) Employment in the Devolved Public Sector, Q1 2013 – Q1 2021, Scotland, Headcount

These tables include comparisons for Q4 in 1999 and 2015 to 2021 only. A complete time series, including all quarters back to Q1 1999 is provided in the excel spreadsheets published at the public sector employment web section

https://www.gov.scot/publications/public-sector-employment-statistics-web-tables/

Contact

Email: LMStats@gov.scot

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