Census 2011: Key results on Education and Labour Market in Scotland - Release 2B.
The statistics published today by the Registrar General for Scotland, provide estimates of the population relating to Education and the Labour Market at all levels of geography from national level down to output area. In addition, the key results on Population, Ethnicity, Identity, Language, Religion, Health, Housing and Accommodation in Scotland - from release 2A are now available at all levels of geography from national level down to output area.
Between 2001 and 2011, the proportion of economically active people aged 16 to 74 increased by four percentage points, from 65 per cent (2.4 million) in 2001 to 69 per cent (2.7 million) in 2011, with the largest increase being for part-time employees.
'Health and social work' and 'Retail activities' were the two largest industry sectors in 2011 in terms of the number of employed people aged 16 to 74, each accounting for 15 per cent (377,000) of this population.
The proportion of males working in the 'Construction', 'Manufacturing' and 'Transport and storage' sectors was much higher than the proportion of females, while there were higher proportions of females than males working in 'Health and social work' and 'Education' sectors.
Around nine times more males than females worked in 'Skilled trades occupations' and seven times more males than females worked as 'Process, plant and machine operatives'.
In contrast, around five times more females than males worked in 'Caring, leisure and other service occupations' and four times more females worked in 'Administrative and secretarial occupations'.
'Lower managerial and professional occupations' was the largest socio-economic group, which represented 20 per cent (803,000 people) of the population aged 16 to 74.
There were more females than males in the 'Intermediate occupations' category (18 per cent of females compared with 7 per cent of males). This category includes clerical and administrative occupations.
In contrast, the 'Lower supervisory and technical occupations' category represents 12 per cent of all 16 to 74 year-old males, compared with 4 per cent of all 16 to 74 year-old females.
The full publication, "2011 Census: Key Results on Education and Labour Market in Scotland - Release 2B" and relevant data can be found in our Census results section.