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"This is the latest in a series of annual articles on jobs in the public and private sectors. This article updates the figures to June 2003, the latest date for which there is comprehensive information. The paper first looks at the latest figures for public sector jobs and their historic context. It then investigates the relative movements in public and private sector jobs. The public sector data in this article are derived from administrative sources and a survey of local authorities. This information is combined with data from the Labour Force Survey and Workforce Jobs to produce information on the private sector. The fastest growing areas of public sector employment are in those areas that have had the largest additional public spending. The bulk of the job gains were in education (up 88,000 jobs) and health (up 63,000). Police and 'other central government' employment also went up (adding 9,000 and 22,000 jobs respectively). Together health and education now account for just under 60 per cent of public sector jobs compared with around 40 per cent in 1983.Employment in the public sector is now 10 per cent higher than in 1998, due to the creation of an additional 509,000 jobs. Before this, the number of public sector jobs had fallen since 1983. Current totals are still well down on levels seen in the 1970s and 1980s, though the biggest single cause of the fall since that period was the reclassification of corporations following privatisation.Job growth in the economy as a whole continued in the 12 months to June 2003. Private sector jobs grew by 98,000 compared to 162,000 in the public sector. The public sector is the largest employer in public administration, education and health, although private sector health employment also increased last year. Private sector jobs are more prevalent in production and construction and in the 'other services' category that contains the bulk of private sector service jobs."

"This is the latest in a series of annual articles on jobs in the public and private sectors. This article updates the figures to June 2002, the latest date for which there is comprehensive information. The paper first looks at the latest figures for public sector jobs and their historic context. It then investigates the relative movements in public and private sector jobs. The public sector data in this article are derived from administrative sources and a survey of local authorities. This information is combined with data from the Labour Force Survey and Workforce Jobs to produce information on the private sector. Around 86,000 new jobs were created in the public sector last year, slightly less than the 118,000 rise in the previous year. Employment in the public sector has now grown in three of the last four years since 1998. Prior to these gains, employment in the public sector had fallen for over fifteen years in a row. The fastest growing areas of public sector employment have been health and education. Job growth in the economy as a whole continued last year, despite the fact that output growth was below trend. The job gains were split fairly evenly between the public and private sectors, but given that the public sector only constitutes about 19 per cent of total jobs, the contribution of the public sector to employment growth was unusually large.Despite the recent job gains in the public sector, the private sector still accounts for over 80 per cent of total jobs. The private sector is the dominant employer in production and construction and in many services. In contrast, the public sector is the dominant employer in public administration, health and education."

"Each year the quarterly employee jobs figures are benchmarked to the ABI annual inquiry, and at the same time the annual seasonal adjustment review is incorporated. This year, ONS is also carrying through the implications of the 2001 Census population data to the estimates of workforce jobs. This article describes each of the type of revisions that ONS has taken on, and provides an indication of their impact on the total workforce jobs estimates. It also provides an up-to-date comparison of the population-based Labour Force Survey (LFS) employment estimates and the business-based workforce jobs estimates.The main effects of these various revisions has been to raise the number of employee jobs in December 2001 by 153,000 and revise downwards self-employed jobs. Comparisons between the revised workforce jobs series and the post-2001 Census LFS jobs series show a substantial gap between the two series."