Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive, together.

The following tables contain detailed data on the questions asked. The data are drawn from the quarterly national household survey, the official source of estimates of employment in the State. The data show the overall stock of persons employed at given points in time. Annual changes are calculated using these stock figures and measure the number of extra jobs year-on-year. In general, the number of new jobs created will be larger than this but they are offset in part by the number of jobs lost year-on-year. The QNHS does not record whether a job is newly-created.

Table 1a shows the number of persons employed in quarter two of each year from 2010 to 2014. Table 1b shows the annual change in the number of persons aged 15 years and over in employment. In quarter two of 2011, 1,861,300 persons aged 15 years and over were in employment. This had risen to 1,901,600 in quarter two of 2014.

The exact information requested by the Deputy relating to geographical and sectoral breakdown is not available. Estimates of employment are produced by the EU Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, NUTS, 3 region. Due to methodology and sample size it is not possible to produce reliable local authority area estimates from the QNHS.

Table 2 shows the number of persons aged 15 years and over in employment classified by region and economic sector in quarter two of 2013 and 2014 together with the annual change.

Table 3a shows the number of persons aged 15 years and over in employment, classified by full-time or part-time employment, in quarter two of each year from 2010 to 2014. Table 3b shows the annual change in the number of persons aged 15 years and over in full-time and part-time employment.

In quarter two of 2011, of the 1,861,300 persons aged 15 and over in employment some 1,423,800 were in full-time employment with 437,500 in part-time employment. In quarter two of 2014, full-time employment had increased to 1,451,300 and part-time employment had increased to 450,300.

The latest figures available from the QNHS are for quarter four of 2014. Table 4 shows the number of persons employed in each economic sector in quarter four of 2013 and quarter four of 2014, together with the annual change.

Table 5 shows the number of persons aged 15 years and over in the labour force, classified by economic status, in quarter four of 2013 and quarter four of 2014, as defined by the International Labour Organization. It also shows the annual change in the number of persons aged 15 years and over classified by economic status in quarter four of 2013 and quarter four of 2014. In quarter four of 2014 the labour force comprised 2,152,500 persons, an increase of 10,500 on the year. The quarterly data for quarter one of 2015 are due for publication by the CSO this Thursday, 21 May at 11.00 a.m.

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