Workplace Employment by Industry, 2001 to 2008

This bulletin is based on statistics from three different sources that are already in the public domain, and provides estimates of workplace employment (or total jobs) in Wales.  The analyses presented cover the aggregate of employees, the self employed and government supported trainees at a broad industrial level in Wales, with estimates also presented at sub-Wales levels.  By also including detail over time, the bulletin increases the information publicly available on jobs in Wales.

The key results are as follows.

• In 2008 there was a higher proportion of employment in health, education & public administration (which is not the same as the public sector) in Wales compared to the UK and a lower proportion in finance & business activities.
• Between 2001 and 2008 there were increases in employment in Wales in construction and across the service sectors.  There were reductions in the production sectors.  A similar pattern of change occurred across the UK as a whole.
• Comparing areas within Wales, West Wales and the Valleys had a higher proportion of jobs in health, education & public administration than East Wales and a lower proportion of jobs in finance & business activities.
• There was substantial variation in the distribution of workplace employment between industries at the local authority level in Wales.
• Workplace employment in Wales increased by 5 per cent between 2001 and 2009, compared with a 4 per cent increase across the UK as a whole.

Further information

StatsWales website.

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 5017
E-mail: economic.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

July 2010 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due Out Soon' page)