Average Hours Worked in Wales, 2010

Statistics on Average hours worked include data for Wales for 2010. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 5 November 2009.

The key points from the latest release are:

• Usual hours of work have increased 0.2 hours since 2009 but decreased by 0.5 hours since 2000 compared to a decrease of 0.3 hours since 2000 for the UK. However, both the UK and Wales average remain above the EU27 average;
• The self – employed continue to have the longest average hours of work at 40.5 hours per week compared to 34.1 hours per week for employees, but the gap between the self – employed and employees has narrowed from 9.6 hours in 2001 to 6.4 hours in 2010;
• The proportion of people working non – standard working time arrangements has increased since 2002 - 04 by 2.4 percentage points to 24.1 per cent of employed persons.

The analyses are based on the Labour Force Survey and the Annual Population Survey.

Contact

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

Next update

December 2012 (provisional - to be confirmed on 'Due out Soon' page)