Written answers
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Department of An Taoiseach
Unemployment Levels
10:00 am
Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 92: To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a breakdown on unemployment levels by specific job type as was recently published by the UK Department of Works and Pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27401/10]
John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates relating to the labour force. Within the survey respondents who are unemployed are asked for their occupation in their previous employment. The table presents estimates of the number of persons unemployed broken down by previous occupation for the first quarter in each year from 2007 to 2010. It should be noted that some respondents either have no previous employment or do not indicate their previous employment, such persons are included in the Previous occupation not stated group in the table.
| Unemployed persons aged 15 years and over classified by previous occupation, | ||||||||||
| first quarter 2007 to first quarter 2010. | ||||||||||
| '000 | ||||||||||
| Broad occupational group | Jan- | Jan- | Jan- | Jan- | ||||||
| Mar 07 | Mar 08 | Mar 09 | Mar 10 | |||||||
| 1. Managers and administrators | 4.5 | 4.2 | 13.1 | 17.8 | ||||||
| 2. Professional | 2.8 | 4.8 | 9.0 | 11.6 | ||||||
| 3. Associate professional and technical | 5.1 | 5.3 | 8.7 | 11.9 | ||||||
| 4. Clerical and secretarial | 8.5 | 8.3 | 16.7 | 20.5 | ||||||
| 5. Craft and related | 14.2 | 21.2 | 60.7 | 75.3 | ||||||
| 6. Personal and protective service | 10.1 | 11.5 | 20.2 | 22.8 | ||||||
| 7. Sales | 9.0 | 9.3 | 17.3 | 19.7 | ||||||
| 8. Plant and machine operatives | 9.1 | 10.5 | 21.2 | 28.0 | ||||||
| 9. Other | 16.3 | 19.1 | 32.8 | 36.7 | ||||||
| 10. Previous occupation not stated | 18.7 | 15.1 | 23.2 | 30.8 | ||||||
| Total persons | 98.1 | 109.4 | 222.8 | 275.0 | ||||||
| Note: Data may be subject to sampling or other survey errors, which are greater in respect of smaller values or estimates of change. | ||||||||||
| The classification system used is based on the UK Standard Occupational Classification (SOC 90) with some modifications | ||||||||||
| to reflect the Irish labour market. | ||||||||||
| Source: QNHS, Central Statistics Office, Ireland. |
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