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Tuesday, 17 February 2015

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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168. To ask the Taoiseach the number of jobs lost or gained in County Kildare in each of the past six years to date. [6559/15]

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates of employment in the State. The most recent figures available are for Q3 2014. Estimates of employment are produced by NUTS 3 Regions. The NUTS 3 Mid-East region includes Kildare, Meath and Wicklow. Due to methodology and sample size it is not possible to produce reliable Kildare County estimates from the QNHS.

Table 1a below shows the number of persons aged 15 years and over in employment classified by NUTS3 Mid-East region in Q3 of each year from 2008 to 2014.

Table 1b shows the annual change in the numbers of persons aged 15 years and over in employment classified by NUTS3 Mid-East region in Q3 of each year from 2009 to 2014.

As Table 1a shows the overall stock of persons employed at given points in time, the annual changes which are calculated using these stock figures depend both on the number of jobs lost and jobs created over the period in question.

The QNHS does not record whether a job is newly created.

Table 1a Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by NUTS3 Mid-East region, Q3 2008 - Q3 2014

'000

Q3 08Q3 09Q310Q3 11Q3 12Q3 13Q3 14
In employment246.8231.1228.5226.6223.5216.7229.6
Data may be subject to sampling or other survey errors, which are greater in respect of smaller values or estimates of change.

Source: Quarterly National Household Survey, Central Statistics Office.

Table 1b Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO) classified by NUTS3 Mid-East region, Q3 2009 - Q3 2014 -Annual change

'000
Q3 09Q3 10Q3 11Q3 12Q3 13Q3 14
In employment-15.6-2.6-1.9-3.1-6.912.9
Data may be subject to sampling or other survey errors, which are greater in respect of smaller values or estimates of change.

Source: Quarterly National Household Survey, Central Statistics Office.

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