We have developed the statistics part of People Managers to help you understand more about the characteristics of the local labour market.
Using the different parts of the site, you can discover the number of businesses locally in your sector, the pay rates for different jobs in the East of England, and the flow of graduates coming into the area from various academic disciplines. There are also statistics about the numbers of people working in different business sectors, and at different occupational levels in each District Council area. By using this data, you can see the labour pool in the immediate catchment area of your business.
Using the site
The site has 11 sets of data. You can select from the list. Information on each topic can be accessed by ticking the boxes, and clicking submit. The data will appear at the top of the screen, followed by a list of the criteria checked. When further data is required, press the reset button, and tick more boxes, or move to a different topic.
Please note, the site will automatically prevent you from choosing duplicate combinations of data, e.g. if you tick all the district councils in a county, the screen will automatically tick the county; or if you tick working age and age category 25-49years, the screen will default to your last “tick”, because those aged 25-49 are automatically included in the people “of working age” group.
Geography
We have tried to give local data where possible. Many of the datasets give information at District or Unitary council level. In some cases, the data is also provided at county level. Some data, however, is only available at a regional level, and this is indicated on the topic screens. Many of the statistics are rounded to the nearest 100 people.
Sampling
The population, pay, business and employment statistics are based on sampling. Where the number of people sampled in a particular category is small, they may not be fully representative of that population category as whole, and we have not used the data for these cases. The message – data not available – will appear when you request such information. (For example, ticking the boxes on the Population by ethnicity and agescreen for Suffolk, 16-19, Pakistani/Bangladeshi will yield a data not available result.) The same applies to some jobs in the employee pay tables. Although we know there are some people employed who fit the criteria being used to define the subgroup, the population samples are not large enough for us to present the data.
Employee pay
We anticipate the employee pay information will be interesting to many users. There are nine occupational categories. Each of these categories contains subdivisions, so Managers and Senior Officials includes Corporate Managers and Managers and Proprietors in Agriculture Services; and Corporate Managers in turn contains Production Managers, Functional Managers and so on. The pay information presented for the top level in each case is based on all the jobs in the East of England in that category. All the nine broad occupational categories are estimated to have between 100,000 and 280,000 people each, and therefore, the population samples used can be regarded as being representative of the East of England. As we look at the subdivisions within the subdivisions, e.g. the marketing and sales managers within Functional Manager subdivision, the sample from which the pay data is derived is smaller. Fortunately, in this example, it is estimated that there are 45,000 jobs in the East of England in this category, and the pay rates data can be regarded as robust. However, quite a large number of occupational subgroups have significantly fewer employees and we have excluded these from the table. The figures presented on this site are based on relatively large samples of the population, and will be a good indicator of pay at each occupational level.
The occupational groups are based on national and international standards. However, care must be taken when using the information, as organisations may use the same terminology to describe particular job roles, but the range of responsibilities could differ between companies. For example, a training manager in a small company may have one or two staff, whereas a training manager in a large plc may have twenty people reporting to him or her. The salary rewards associated with each post could potentially be quite different. From the data gathered by National Statistics, we have used their two main indicators: the mean – which is the average of all the salaries in that occupational group, and the median – which is the middle salary of all the salaries collected in the dataset. Using the two indicators, you can review the data in relation your organisation.
Source data
As indicated on the site, the data has been compiled from material published by the government or public agencies. The sources include the National Statistics websites: www.statistics.gov.uk, and www.nomisweb.co.uk. They are Crown copyright, and Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO. The destinations data of leavers from higher education institutions have been commissioned from the Higher Education Statistics Agency, and the information is copyright to HESA. The Jobcentre Plus statistics are published through www.nomisweb.co.uk.
Further information
We hope that you will find the site easy to use, but if you need help or further information, please contact Trevor Carr – tcarr@mckerrcarr.com
http://www.eastofenglandlabourmarket.org.uk/