Regional Workforce Jobs

The quarterly update of the workforce jobs datasets took place at 09:30 on 14 March 2012 with the release of new data for December 2011.

Revisions: The full Workforce Jobs series has been revised. The revised estimates take account of benchmarking to the latest estimates produced from the annual Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) as well as a new methodology. An article giving details about the revisions is available - revisions article (PDF).

Rounding: Workforce jobs estimates across all outputs are now produced to the nearest thousand. This is based on ONS's desire to provide information that is useful but does not give a misleading impression of precision.

The datasets revised and updated in this release are:

• workforce jobs by industry (SIC 2007) - seasonally adjusted    [link to data]
• workforce jobs by industry (SIC 2007) and sex - unadjusted    [link to data]

Background

This series provides estimates of total workforce jobs, employee jobs, self-employment jobs, government supported trainees, and HM forces. Figures are available at national and regional level only (no local authority data).

Unreliable Estimates

As of September 2011, ONS are highlighting regional Workforce Jobs estimates by industry where the employee jobs component has either:

• a coefficient of variation greater than 25%, or
• a coefficient of variation greater than 10% and a standard error greater than 20,000.

These estimates are deemed unreliable and should be treated with caution. These criteria have been applied back to 2010 Q1, the first period selected on the SIC 2007 sample design. Download this table (xls) to get the list of SIC industry sections deemed unreliable by region.