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Compendium of Labour Market Statistics
26/06/2008
Scotland's Chief Statistician today published statistics from the Annual Population Survey (APS), a boosted annual version of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) that is the official source of many labour market and lifelong learning indicators for Scotland and local authority areas in Scotland.
This publication provides an annual summary of the data covering key indicators such as employment rates, unemployment rates, rates of young people not in education, employment or training and qualification breakdowns in Scotland, Local Authority areas and other selected geographies.
Some of the main findings are:
- In Scotland the number of working age people in employment was estimated at 2.432 million (76.0 per cent), an increase of 0.3 percentage points from 2006
- Employment rates varied by local authority areas in 2007, from 66.7% in Glasgow City to 88.1 per cent in the Shetland Islands
- The employment rates in the best and worst performing Local Authorities increased over the last year, however the rates increased faster in the best performing areas so the gap between the best and worst performing areas has increased by 0.8 percentage points
- Employment rates in the most deprived areas continue to be lower than in the rest of Scotland (58.6 per cent v 78.9 per cent) but the difference in employment rates between the two areas has decreased from 22.9 percentage points to 20.3 percentage points since 2006
A total of 124,900 people aged 16 or over were estimated to be unemployed in 2007. This was 4.7 per cent of the economically active population, a reduction from 5.2 per cent in 2006
Between 2006 and 2007, the proportion of 16 to 19 year olds estimated to be not in employment, education or training (NEET) decreased by 0.2 percentage points from 12.4 per cent to 12.2 per cent. However, this change is not statistically significant
In 2007, the proportion of children living in workless households was 15.3 per cent, a decrease of 0.8 percentage points from 16.1 per cent in 2006