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Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Department of An Taoiseach

Job Creation Data

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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82. To ask the Taoiseach the total number of jobs created here in the past five and a half years. [6640/17]

Photo of Regina DohertyRegina Doherty (Meath East, 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 2016.

Table 1a shows the number of persons aged 15 years and over in employment in Q3 of each year from 2010 to 2016.

Table 1b shows the annual change in the numbers of persons aged 15 years and over in employment in Q3 of each year from 2011 to 2016.

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), Q3 2010- Q3 2016

'000

Q3 10
Q3 11
Q3 12
Q3 13
Q3 14
Q3 15
Q3 16
In employment
1,886.1
1,845.6
1,841.3
1,899.3
1,926.9
1,983.0
2,040.5

Table 1b Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO), Q3 2011- Q3 2016 - Annual change

'000

Q3 11
Q3 12
Q3 13
Q3 14
Q3 15
Q3 16
In employment
-40.4
-4.3
58.0
27.7
56.0
57.5

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.

Reference period: Q3=July-September.

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