Subtopic: Place of Work

This article examines regional and local industrial specialisations in Great Britain through use of employee jobs data. A number of measures of industrial specialisation have been calculated to provide a means of measuring the similarity, or otherwise, of industrial structures between areas. In addition, location quotients have been calculated. These allow for a more in depth analysis of local specialisations.

An overview of data available from ONS that can be used to examine the subregional distribution of public sector and private sector employment