Employment overview
Estimates of employee numbers by local authority and industry sector from the Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES), 2018 (provisional data) and 2017 (revised data)
Background information
The Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES) is the official source of employee and employment estimates by detailed geography and industry, including public and private sector splits. BRES is regarded as the definitive source of official government employee statistics by industry. It is administered by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The survey collects employment information from businesses for each site that they operate, so the data is workplace-based. BRES does not include very small businesses that are not registered for Value Added Tax (VAT). However, as from data for 2015, the BRES estimates have included a population of solely Pay As You Earn (PAYE) based businesses with employment counts of less than 20. This results in a discontinuity with figures prior to 2015 for this aspect of the data. For total employment figures, other ONS sources, such as workforce jobs (at the regional level) and the Annual Population Survey (for sub-regional estimates) can provide a more complete coverage of total employment, although with less detailed industrial breakdown.
The data analysed below has been downloaded from the BRES open access dataset via the National Online Manpower Information System web site (Nomisweb). Although BRES data covers the whole of the United Kingdom (UK), low-level aggregate estimates published on NOMIS cover Great Britain (GB) only. Data for agriculture (from farms) is not available below the regional level.
BRES estimates are based on a sample of approximately 80,000 businesses and can be affected by sampling variability. The quality of the estimates may deteriorate for smaller geographies (below the regional level) and industries and this should be taken into account when interpreting the data. Part-time working is classified as 30 hours per week or less in the BRES survey.
Please note that owing to the rounding of figures for employee jobs that figures summed from individual industry sectors may not equal the local authority totals in some instances.
The BRES estimates are provisional in nature when initially published and may be subject to revision, usually on the anniversary of the initial release.
Readers may be interested in the following statistical bulletins produced by the ONS. Employees in the UK: 2018; Employees in the UK by region: 2018; Employees in the UK by industry: 2018; and the Business Register Employment Survey (BRES) QMI (quality and methodology information) document.
Provisional estimates of employment, 2018
In 2018, the provisional estimated total number of employees was 506,000 in the Lancashire-12 area and 638,000 in the Lancashire-14 area.
Within the Lancashire-12 area, Preston (89,000) had the greatest provisional estimate of employee numbers, followed by Lancaster (55,000), South Ribble (54,000) and West Lancashire (50,000): Rossendale (22,000) had the lowest. Blackburn with Darwen (70,000) and Blackpool (63,000) had the second and third largest total number of employees in the Lancashire-14 area.
For Great Britain (GB), the provisional estimate of total employees in 2018 was 29,758,000.
Manufacturing
In terms of wealth creation, the provisional 'balanced' gross value added (GVA) sum derived from the manufacturing sector (£6.533 billion) in the Lancashire-14 area accounted for almost a fifth (19.2%) of the total for the area in 2018, compared to 10.0% for the UK (less Extra-regio component). In the Lancashire-12 area, the percentage for manufacturing was slightly higher at 20.2% (£5.693 billion). The GVA for the Extra-regio component comprises compensation of employees and gross operating surplus that cannot be assigned to regions, such as oil and gas production on the continental shelf.
The number of employees in the manufacturing sector also remains greater in percentage terms in the Lancashire-12 area (14.0%, 71,000), and in the Lancashire-14 area (13.6%, 87,000) than for Great Britain as a whole (8.1%, 2,405,000).
Ten of the Lancashire-14 authorities had percentages of employees in the manufacturing sector that were greater than the GB average (8.1%), ranging from 11.3% (3,500 employees) in Wyre to 30.3% (10,000 employees) in Pendle. The percentage of employees in the manufacturing sector was more than three times the GB average (8.1%) in Pendle (30.3%, 10,000 employees), Ribble Valley (25.9%, 7,000) and Fylde (25.6%). For Hyndburn (21.4%, 6,000 employees), Rossendale (18.2%, 4,000), Burnley (17.9%, 7000) and Blackburn with Darwen (17.1%, 12,000) the percentage of manufacturing employees was more than double the GB average.
Out of 380 local authority areas in Great Britain, Pendle (30.3%, 10,000), Ribble Valley (25.9% 7,000) and Fylde (25.6%, 10,000) had the second, fifth and sixth highest percentages of their employee totals in the manufacturing sector in 2018. Copeland (37.5%, 12,000) and Barrow-in-Furness (30.0%, 9,000) in Cumbria had the highest and third highest percentages in GB. Hyndburn, ranked 15th (21.4%, 6,000), Rossendale, ranked in 29th place (18.2%, 4,000) and Burnley, ranked in 30th position (17.9%, 7,000) were placed in the top 10% of the GB rankings, whilst Blackburn with Darwen (17.1% 12,000) and West Lancashire (16.0%, 8,000) fell in the top 15%. South Ribble (13.0%, 7,000) and Wyre (11.3%, 3,500) also had manufacturing employee percentages that were greater than the GB average (8.1%). Wyre's ranking, 135th, fell just outside of the top third of the GB rankings.
Services
Service activities (industry sections G to U) comprised 78.5% (501,000) of total employment in the Lancashire 14 area and 76.9% (389,000) in the Lancashire-12 area in 2018, provisionally. These were both lower than the GB percentage for service activities of 85.1%, 25,335,000). In terms of 'balanced' gross value added (GVA), the sum for the services sector in the Lancashire-14 area of £24 billion represented 70.4% of the all industries total of £34.11 billion in 2018. For the Lancashire-12 area, the 'balanced' gross value added (GVA) total of £19.1 billion derived from the services sector was 67.9% of the all industries total of £28.117 billion (UK less Extra-regio = 80.2%).
The three industry sections of J (information and communication), K (financial and insurance activities) and M (professional, scientific and technical activities) contain many high value jobs and are sectors where the Lancashire-14 and Lancashire-12 areas are under-represented. This contributes to the disparity in the economic growth rate locally and the rest of the country. In the Lancashire-14 area, these three service sectors accounted for 8.8% (56,000) of employee jobs and 9.3% (47,000) in the Lancashire-12 area. These figures compare against 16.3% for Great Britain. Within the Lancashire-14 area, only Fylde (19.5%, 7,600) had a percentage of its employee total estimate that was greater than the GB figure. Blackpool (4.8%, 3,050) had the sixth lowest percentage of employee jobs in these three sectors in Great Britain, whilst Hyndburn (6.1%, 1,700), Rossendale (6.5%, 1,425), Burnley (6.6%, 2,600), Wyre (6.9%, 2,150) and Ribble Valley (7.3%, 1,975) were all in the lowest 20% of the rankings.
The three largely public sector industry categories of O (public administration and defence; compulsory social security), P (education) and Q (human health and social work activities) accounted for slightly larger percentages of employee jobs in the Lancashire-14 area (28.7%, 183,000) and the Lancashire-12 area (26.7%, 135,000) than at the GB level (26.2%, 7,805,000). At the district level however, Blackpool (41.2%, 26,000) had the fourth highest percentage of employee jobs in these three sectors in Great Britain in 2018, whilst Preston (37.1%, 33,000) and Lancaster (35.5%, 19,500) fell in the top 10%. Blackburn with Darwen (31.5%, 22,000), Chorley (30.7%, 12,000) and Burnley (29.5%, 11,500) also had percentages for these sectors that were above the GB figure (26.2%). South Ribble (17.6%, 9,500) had the lowest percentage of employee jobs in these three sectors in the Lancashire-14 area in 2018 and was ranked in the lowest 30th position in Great Britain (in the lowest 10%).
Industry section G (wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles) was the largest individual sector in the Lancashire-12 area in 2018, comprising 18.0% (91,000), or over a sixth of total employee jobs (GB = 15.1%, 4,504,000). In the Lancashire-14 area, section G accounted for 17.6% (112,000) of the employee jobs total. Hyndburn (25.0%, 7,000) and Wyre (22.6%, 7,000) had the fourth and tenth largest percentages of employee jobs in this sector in Great Britain in 2018, whilst the percentages for Burnley (20.5%, 8,000) and Rossendale (20.5%, 4,500) fell in the top 10% of the rankings. Within the Lancashire-14 area, only Fylde (12.8%, 5,000) had a percentage that was lower than the GB figure (15.1%).
The number of employee jobs in the accommodation and food service activities sector (I) amounted to 35,000 (6.9%) in the Lancashire-12 area and 45,000 (7.1%) in the Lancashire-14 area in 2018. Many employees in this sector work in jobs that are associated with tourism, so it is not surprisingly that Blackpool had the largest number (8,000, 12.7%) within the Lancashire-14 area. However, in terms of the percentage of employee jobs in this sector, Ribble Valley had the greatest figure in the area (13.0%, 3,500 employee jobs) in 2018. Fylde (10.3%, 4,000) and Wyre (9.7%, 3,000) also had high percentages in the Lancashire-14 area. The sector accounted for £0.724 billion (2.6%) of the 'balanced' GVA total in the Lancashire-12 area in 2018 and £0.949 billion (2.8%) in the Lancashire-14 area (UK less Extra-regio = 2.8%).
Construction
The construction industry (sector F) had a provisional employee jobs total of 33,000 (6.5%) in the Lancashire-12 area in 2018, and 37,000 (5.8%) in the Lancashire-14 area (GB = 4.7%). In terms of 'balanced' GVA, the provisional amount derived from the sector in 2018 was £2.159 billion or 7.7% of total GVA in the Lancashire-12 area, and £2.356 billion or 6.9% in the Lancashire-14 area (UK less Extra-regio = 6.1%).
At the district level within the Lancashire-14 area, South Ribble had 20.4%, or 11,000 employee jobs in the construction sector. This is the dominant individual sector in South Ribble. The percentage of construction employee jobs in South Ribble is the highest in Great Britain whilst the total number of employee jobs in the construction sector in South Ribble is the joint seventh highest in Great Britain, on a par with County Durham (11,000, 6.4%) and Wiltshire (11,000, 5.4%).
The reason for the high numbers of construction employee jobs in South Ribble most likely reflects a cluster of significant construction companies in the area, whose employees will have their registered paypoint at the headquarters/registered office of these companies. Their actual working site and the local authority in which they live may be many miles away.
Preston (4,500, 5.1%) had the second highest number of construction employee jobs in the Lancashire-14 area. The percentages of employee jobs in the construction sector for Wyre (8.1%, 2,500) and Rossendale (8.0%, 1,750) were in the top 10% of the GB local authority rankings.
* Agriculture note
The employee jobs estimates for the agricultural industry classification 01000 are only included at the GB and North West levels in the BRES dataset. The figures for the Lancashire-12 and Lancashire-14 areas, and at the local authority level for industry section A (agriculture, forestry and fishing) therefore only include employment estimates for forestry and fishing.
Table 1: Employee job estimates by industry sector, 2018 (provisional)
| * Please refer to note on agriculture above table 1. | ||||||
| 2018 (provisional data) | Lancashire-12 | Lancashire-14 | Great Britain | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industry Section | Number | % of total | Number | % of total | Number | % of total |
| A : Agriculture, forestry and fishing * | 5,000 | 1.0 | 5,000 | 0.8 | 213,000 | 0.7 |
| B : Mining and quarrying | 450 | 0.1 | 450 | 0.1 | 50,000 | 0.2 |
| C : Manufacturing | 71,000 | 14.0 | 87,000 | 13.6 | 2,405,000 | 8.1 |
| D : Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply | 2,250 | 0.4 | 2,250 | 0.4 | 141,000 | 0.5 |
| E : Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities | 4,500 | 0.9 | 5,000 | 0.8 | 211,000 | 0.7 |
| F : Construction | 33,000 | 6.5 | 37,000 | 5.8 | 1,402,000 | 4.7 |
| G : Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 91,000 | 18.0 | 112,000 | 17.6 | 4,504,000 | 15.1 |
| H : Transportation and storage | 20,000 | 4.0 | 26,000 | 4.1 | 1,427,000 | 4.8 |
| I : Accommodation and food service activities | 35,000 | 6.9 | 45,000 | 7.1 | 2,237,000 | 7.5 |
| J : Information and communication | 11,000 | 2.2 | 13,000 | 2.0 | 1,256,000 | 4.2 |
| K : Financial and insurance activities | 7,000 | 1.4 | 8,000 | 1.3 | 1,021,000 | 3.4 |
| L : Real estate activities | 6,000 | 1.2 | 7,000 | 1.1 | 506,000 | 1.7 |
| M : Professional, scientific and technical activities | 29,000 | 5.7 | 35,000 | 5.5 | 2,571,000 | 8.6 |
| N : Administrative and support service activities | 36,000 | 7.1 | 46,000 | 7.2 | 2,678,000 | 9.0 |
| O : Public administration and defence; compulsory social security | 21,000 | 4.2 | 31,000 | 4.9 | 1,277,000 | 4.3 |
| P : Education | 47,000 | 9.3 | 58,000 | 9.1 | 2,620,000 | 8.8 |
| Q : Human health and social work activities | 67,000 | 13.2 | 94,000 | 14.7 | 3,908,000 | 13.1 |
| R : Arts, entertainment and recreation | 10,000 | 2.0 | 15,000 | 2.4 | 732,000 | 2.5 |
| S : Other service activities | 9,000 | 1.8 | 11,000 | 1.7 | 598,000 | 2.0 |
| Total | 506,000 | 100.0 | 638,000 | 100.0 | 29,758,000 | 100.0 |
Source: Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES Open Access), 2018 (provisional), via the National On-line Manpower Information System (Nomis).
Yearly change by area (provisional)
Within Great Britain, the BRES employee jobs total increased provisionally by 215,000, or by 0.7% between 2017 and 2018. At the Lancashire-14 level, the number of BRES employee jobs rose by a similar 0.8% (5,000), provisionally, over the year. However, contrary to this, the Lancashire-12 area saw a provisional drop of 0.2%, with the number of employee jobs falling by 1,000.
Five of the Lancashire-14 local authority areas were estimated to have seen provisional growth in their employee job numbers between 2017 and 2018. Blackburn with Darwen (+4,000, +6.1%) and Blackpool (+3,000, +5.0%) saw the greatest increases, followed by Rossendale (+2,000, +10.0%), Preston (+2,000, +2.3%) and West Lancashire (+1,000, +2.0%). All of these five areas saw provisional percentage increases in their employee jobs totals that were greater than the GB rise of 0.7%.
Fylde (-3,000, -7.1%), Lancaster (-2000, -3.5%), Pendle (-1,000, -2.9%) and South Ribble (-1,000, -1.8%) were provisionally estimated to have seen falls in their employment totals between 2017 and 2018.
The BRES employee job numbers for Burnley, Chorley, Hyndburn, Ribble Valley and Wyre were provisionally estimated to be unchanged between 2017 and 2018.
Table 2: Changes to employee job estimates by area 2017 to 2018 (provisional)
| * Please refer to note on agriculture above table 1. | ||||
| Area | Employee job numbers 2017 | Employee job numbers 2018 | Change in employee job numbers 2017 to 2018 | % Change in employee job numbers 2017 to 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burnley | 39,000 | 39,000 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Chorley | 39,000 | 39,000 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Fylde | 42,000 | 39,000 | -3,000 | -7.1 |
| Hyndburn | 28,000 | 28,000 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Lancaster | 57,000 | 55,000 | -2,000 | -3.5 |
| Pendle | 34,000 | 33,000 | -1,000 | -2.9 |
| Preston | 87,000 | 89,000 | 2,000 | 2.3 |
| Ribble Valley | 27,000 | 27,000 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Rossendale | 20,000 | 22,000 | 2,000 | 10.0 |
| South Ribble | 55,000 | 54,000 | -1,000 | -1.8 |
| West Lancashire | 49,000 | 50,000 | 1,000 | 2.0 |
| Wyre | 31,000 | 31,000 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Lancashire-12 | 507,000 | 506,000 | -1,000 | -0.2 |
| Blackburn with Darwen | 66,000 | 70,000 | 4,000 | 6.1 |
| Blackpool | 60,000 | 63,000 | 3,000 | 5.0 |
| Lancashire-14 | 633,000 | 638,000 | 5,000 | 0.8 |
| North West | 3,298,000 | 3,329,000 | 31,000 | 0.9 |
| England | 25,829,000 | 25,976,000 | 147,000 | 0.6 |
| Great Britain | 29,543,000 | 29,758,000 | 215,000 | 0.7 |
Source: Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES Open Access), 2017 (revised) and 2018 (provisional), via the National On-line Manpower Information System (Nomis).
Yearly change by industry sector
Within the Lancashire-14 area, eight of the 19 industry sectors (from A to S) recorded provisional increases in employee job numbers between 2017 and 2018, seven industry sectors saw provisional decreases and four industry sectors were unchanged. The pattern of yearly change by industry sector was slightly different for the Lancashire-12 area. Overall, only six industry sectors recorded provisional increases in employee job numbers over the year, a greater number of nine sectors saw provisional decreases and four industry sectors were unchanged.
For Great Britain as a whole, 12 of the 19 industry sectors (from A to S) saw provisional growth in employee job numbers between 2017 and 2018, and seven sectors recorded provisional reductions. The industry sectors which experienced growth or decline in employee job numbers at the GB level differs in some instances to those in the Lancashire-14 and Lancashire-12 areas.
Increases in employment numbers
At the GB level, industry sector M: Professional, scientific and technical activities (+80,000, +3.2%) saw the largest provisional increase in the number of employees between 2017 and 2018, followed by industry sector G: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (+55,000, +1.2%) and industry sector I: Accommodation and food service activities (+47,000, +2.1%). In terms of the percentage rise, industry sector D: Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (+5.2%, +7,000) saw the largest percentage increase in employees over the year at the GB level, followed by sector L: Real estate activities (+4.1%, +20,000).
Of the eight sectors that saw increases in employee job numbers in the Lancashire-14 area between 2017 and 2018, industry sector G: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (+8,000, +7.7%) saw the largest provisional increase. This was followed by industry sector H: Transportation and storage (+3,000, +13.0%); sector I: Accommodation and food service activities (+3,000, +7.1%) and industry sector N: Administrative and support service activities (+2,000, +4.5%).
Industry sectors C: Manufacturing (+1,000, +1.2%); F: Construction (+1,000, +2.8%); and S: Other service activities (+1,000, 10.0%) all rose by the same amount in the Lancashire-14 area. Employee jobs in sector B: Mining and quarrying (+50, 12.5%) rose by the smallest number over the year in the area.
The provisional growth in employee jobs in sectors F: Construction and N: Administrative and support service activities in the Lancashire-14 area were contrary to the reductions in these sectors at the GB level over the year. For the remaining six sectors that rose in the Lancashire-14 area, the provisional percentage increases were much greater than the percentage increases at the GB level.
For the Lancashire-12 area, the pattern of yearly increases was similar to the Lancashire-14 area for six of the eight industry sectors. Industry sector G: Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (+6,000, +7.1%) once again saw the largest provisional yearly increase in employee jobs in the Lancashire-12 area. However, industry sector I: Accommodation and food service activities (+3,000, +9.4%) recorded the second greatest increase, followed by sector H: Transportation and storage (+2,000, +11.1%).
Industry sectors C: Manufacturing (+1,000, +1.4%) and S: Other service activities (+1,000, 12.5%) both rose by the same amount in the Lancashire-12 area. Employee jobs in sector B: Mining and quarrying (+50, 12.5%) rose by the smallest number over the year in the Lancashire-12 area.
Again, for the six sectors that rose in the Lancashire-12 area, the provisional percentage increases were much greater than the percentage increases at the GB level.
Whereas employee job numbers in the Lancashire-14 area increased in sector F: Construction and sector N: Administrative and support service activities, numbers for these sectors were unchanged in the Lancashire-12 area over the year.
Reductions in employment numbers
The sectors that saw the greatest provisional decreases in employee numbers at the GB level between 2017 and 2018 were industry sector J: Information and communication (-24,000, -1.9%), industry sector R: Arts, entertainment and recreation (-19,000, -2.5%) and industry sector F: Construction (-18,000, -1.3%). Industry sector R (-2.5%) saw the largest percentage fall, followed by sector J (-1.9%) and industry sector F (-1.3%).
Of the seven sectors that saw reductions in employee job numbers in the Lancashire-14 area between 2017 and 2018, industry sector Q: Human health and social work activities (-5,000, -5.1%) saw the greatest provisional reduction.
Four sectors each reduced by 2,000 employee jobs over the year in the Lancashire-14 area. These were sector J: Information and communication (-2,000, -13.3%); sector K: Finance and insurance activities (-2,000, -20.0%); sector L: Real estate activities (-2,000, -22.2%) and industry sector R: Arts, entertainment and recreation.
Two sectors in the Lancashire-14 area each reduced by 1,000 employee jobs between 2017 and 2018. These were sector M: Professional, scientific and technical activities (-1,000, -2.8%) and sector P: Education (-1,000, -1.7%).
The provisional falls in employee job numbers in sectors L: Real estate activities, M: Professional, scientific and technical activities and Q: Human health and social work activities in the Lancashire-14 area were contrary to the growth in employee numbers in these sectors at the GB level over the year. For the remaining sectors in which employee job numbers fell in the Lancashire-14 area, the provisional percentage decreases were greater than the percentage decreases at the GB level.
In the Lancashire-12 area, nine industry sectors were estimated to have recorded reductions to their employee job totals between 2017 and 2018, compared to seven in the Lancashire-14 area
The pattern of reductions in employee jobs in the Lancashire-12 area was similar to the Lancashire-14 area for six of the industry sectors (J, K, L M, Q and R). For sector P: Education, however, which saw a reduction in employee number in the Lancashire-14 area, the numbers were unchanged in the Lancashire-12 area between 2017 and 2018.
The three additional industry sectors in the Lancashire-12 area that recorded provisional reductions in employee job numbers over the year were sector D: Electric, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (-250, -10.0%), sector E: Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (-500, -10.0%), and sector O: Public administration and defence: compulsory social security (-1,000, -4.5%). Contrary to the Lancashire-12 area, these three sectors all saw increases to their employee job totals at the GB level between 2017 and 2018, and were unchanged in the Lancashie-14 area.
No change in employment numbers
At the GB level, all of the 19 industry sectors (A to S) saw some change to the number of employees between 2017 and 2018.
The four industry sectors that provisionally saw no change in employee job numbers over the year from 2017 to 2018 in the Lancashire-14 area were sector A: Agriculture, forestry and fishing; sector D: Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply; sector E: Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities and sector O: Public administration and defence: compulsory social security. At the GB level, sector A: Agriculture, forestry and fishing (-0.9%) recorded a reduction in employee job numbers over the year, whilst the remaining three industry sectors (D (5.2%), E (2.9%) & O (1.7%)) all saw increases in employee job numbers.
For the Lancashire-12 area, four industry sectors also provisionally saw no change in employee job numbers over the year from 2017 to 2018, but three of these were different to the four sectors that were unchanged in the Lancashire-14 area.
Similar to the Lancashire-14 area, industry sector A: Agriculture, forestry and fishing, recorded no provisional change to employee numbers between 2017 and 2018 in the Lancashire-12 area. At the GB level, this sector saw a reduction in employee numbers of 0.9%.
In the Lancashire-12 area, employee job numbers were also unchanged in sector F: Construction, sector N: Administrative and support service activities and sector P: Education between 2017 and 2018. At the GB level, sector F: Construction and sector N: Administrative and support service activities saw reductions in employee numbers of -1.3% and -0.2%, respectively, whilst for the Lancashire-14 area these two sectors saw increases in employee job numbers of 2.8% and 4.5%, respectively. For sector P: Education, the number of employee jobs fell at both the GB level, by -0.2%, and within the Lancashire-14 area, by 1.7% (-1,000 employee jobs).
Table 3: Changes to the employee job estimates by industry sector, 2017 to 2018 (provisional)
| * Please refer to note on agriculture above table 1. | |||||||||
| Area | Lancashire-12 | Lancashire-14 | Great Britain | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change 2017 to 2018 | Change 2017 to 2018 | Change 2017 to 2018 | Change 2017 to 2018 | ||||||
| Industry Section | Change in number | % change in number | percentage point change (of % of total) | Change in number | % change in number | percentage point change (of % of total) | Change in number | % change in number | percentage point change (of % of total) |
| A : Agriculture, forestry and fishing * | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -2,000 | -0.9 | 0.0 |
| B : Mining and quarrying | 50 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 50 | 12.5 | 0.0 | 1,000 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
| C : Manufacturing | 1,000 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 1,000 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 5,000 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| D : Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply | -250 | -10.0 | -0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 7,000 | 5.2 | 0.0 |
| E : Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities | -500 | -10.0 | -0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6,000 | 2.9 | 0.0 |
| F : Construction | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,000 | 2.8 | 0.1 | -18,000 | -1.3 | -0.1 |
| G : Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 6,000 | 7.1 | 1.2 | 8,000 | 7.7 | 1.2 | 55,000 | 1.2 | 0.0 |
| H : Transportation and storage | 2,000 | 11.1 | 0.4 | 3,000 | 13.0 | 0.5 | 31,000 | 2.2 | 0.1 |
| I : Accommodation and food service activities | 3,000 | 9.4 | 0.6 | 3,000 | 7.1 | 0.5 | 47,000 | 2.1 | 0.1 |
| J : Information and communication | -2,000 | -15.4 | -0.4 | -2,000 | -13.3 | -0.4 | -24,000 | -1.9 | -0.1 |
| K : Financial and insurance activities | -2,000 | -22.2 | -0.4 | -2,000 | -20.0 | -0.3 | -4,000 | -0.4 | -0.1 |
| L : Real estate activities | -1,000 | -14.3 | -0.2 | -2,000 | -22.2 | -0.3 | 20,000 | 4.1 | 0.1 |
| M : Professional, scientific and technical activities | -1,000 | -3.3 | -0.2 | -1,000 | -2.8 | -0.2 | 80,000 | 3.2 | 0.2 |
| N : Administrative and support service activities | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2,000 | 4.5 | 0.2 | -5,000 | -0.2 | -0.1 |
| O : Public administration and defence; compulsory social security | -1,000 | -4.5 | -0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 21,000 | 1.7 | 0.0 |
| P : Education | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -1,000 | -1.7 | -0.2 | -5,000 | -0.2 | -0.1 |
| Q : Human health and social work activities | -5,000 | -6.9 | -1.0 | -5,000 | -5.1 | -0.9 | 8,000 | 0.2 | -0.1 |
| R : Arts, entertainment and recreation | -1,000 | -9.1 | -0.2 | -2,000 | -11.8 | -0.3 | -19,000 | -2.5 | 0.0 |
| S : Other service activities | 1,000 | -12.5 | 0.2 | 1,000 |
10.0 |
0.1 | 11,000 | 1.9 | 0.0 |
| Total | -1,000 | -0.2 | - | 5,000 | 0.8 | - | 215,000 | 0.7 | - |
Source: Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES Open Access), 2017 (revised) and 2018 (provisional), via the National On-line Manpower Information System (Nomis).
Table 4: Employee job estimates by industry sector, 2017 (revised data)
| * Please refer to note on agriculture above table 1. | ||||||
| 2017 (revised data) | Lancashire-12 | Lancashire-14 | Great Britain | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industry Section | Number | % of total | Number | % of total | Number | % of total |
| A : Agriculture, forestry and fishing* | 5,000 | 1.0 | 5,000 | 0.8 | 215,000 | 0.7 |
| B : Mining and quarrying | 400 | 0.1 | 400 | 0.1 | 49,000 | 0.2 |
| C : Manufacturing | 70,000 | 13.8 | 86,000 | 13.6 | 2,400,000 | 8.1 |
| D : Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply | 2,500 | 0.5 | 2,500 | 0.4 | 134,000 | 0.5 |
| E : Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities | 5,000 | 1.0 | 5,000 | 0.8 | 205,000 | 0.7 |
| F : Construction | 33,000 | 6.5 | 36,000 | 5.7 | 1,402,000 | 4.8 |
| G : Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 85,000 | 16.8 | 104,000 | 16.4 | 4,449,000 | 15.1 |
| H : Transportation and storage | 18,000 | 3.6 | 23,000 | 3.6 | 1,396,000 | 4.7 |
| I : Accommodation and food service activities | 32,000 | 6.3 | 42,000 | 6.6 | 2,190,000 | 7.4 |
| J : Information and communication | 13,000 | 2.6 | 15,000 | 2.4 | 1,280,000 | 4.3 |
| K : Financial and insurance activities | 9,000 | 1.8 | 10,000 | 1.6 | 1,025,000 | 3.5 |
| L : Real estate activities | 7,000 | 1.4 | 9,000 | 1.4 | 486,000 | 1.6 |
| M : Professional, scientific and technical activities | 30,000 | 5.9 | 36,000 | 5.7 | 2,491,000 | 8.4 |
| N : Administrative and support service activities | 36,000 | 7.1 | 44,000 | 7.0 | 2,683,000 | 9.1 |
| O : Public administration and defence; compulsory social security | 22,000 | 4.3 | 31,000 | 4.9 | 1,256,000 | 4.3 |
| P : Education | 47,000 | 9.3 | 59,000 | 9.3 | 2,625,000 | 8.9 |
| Q : Human health and social work activities | 72,000 | 14.2 | 99,000 | 15.6 | 3,900,000 | 13.2 |
| R : Arts, entertainment and recreation | 11,000 | 2.2 | 17,000 | 2.7 | 751,000 | 2.5 |
| S : Other service activities | 8,000 | 1.6 | 10,000 | 1.6 | 587,000 | 2.0 |
| Total | 507,000 | 100.0 | 633,000 | 100.0 | 29,543,000 | 100.0 |
Source: Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES Open Access), 2017 (revised), via the National On-line Manpower Information System (Nomis).
Further analysis to follow
Page updated 10 February 2020