Release

Public sector employment, UK: December 2019

Released: 17 March 2020 9:30am
Next release: 16 June 2020

Summary

The official measure of people employed in the UK public sector, including private sector estimates, based on the difference between total UK employment and public sector employment.

Publications

Data

  • Public sector employment time series

    Seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted quarterly time series of UK public sector employment, containing the latest estimates.

  • Public sector employment

    Quarterly estimates of UK and regional public sector employment, made up of central government, local government, and public corporations.

Contact details

Name

Laura Caldwell

Email

pse@ons.gov.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1633 455955

About the data

Accredited Official Statistics

These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:

  • meet user needs
  • are presented clearly and accessibly
  • are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
  • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest