Regional Workforce Jobs

The quarterly update of the workforce jobs datasets took place at 09:30 on 17 April 2013 with the release of new data for December 2012 (this release was originally scheduled for 20 March 2013).

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).

Sampling errors. Sampling errors, which give an indication of the actual accuracy of the estimates, are available in an article Estimates of sampling variability for Workforce Jobs. From 17th April 2013 they are also included as table JOBS07 of the Labour Market Statistics bulletin published on the ONS website.