§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the current definition of a service sector job as used in the compilation of statistics in his Department; and if he will tabulate the occupations covered thereby.
§ Mr. GummerThe service sector is currently defined in the Department's statistics in terms of industries described in the standard industrial classification—1968—a copy of which is in the Library. The industry orders which comprise the service sector are as follows:
XXII Transport and communication XXIII Distributive trades XXIV Insurance, banking, finance and business services XXV Professional and scientific services XXVI Miscellaneous services XXVII Public administration and defence Employees of any of these industries are classified as working in the service sector regardless of their occupation. For example, managers in the retail trade are included in service industry statistics, but managers in manufacturing industries are not.
§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will tabulate, for all Organisations for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, the percentage of the working population employed in the service sector, for each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
§ Mr. GummerThe following is the latest available information. It should be noted that comparisons of this type can be affected by differences in concepts and methods of compilation in the different countries.
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1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 France 47 48 48 49 50 50 51 51 52 52 Germany 44 45 44 45 45 46 47 47 47 49 Greece — — — — — 37 38 38 — — Iceland 46 46 47 47 48 48 49 50 — — Ireland 41 42 42 43 43 44 44 45 45 — Italy 39 40 41 42 42 42 43 44 44 45 Luxembourg 47 48 48 49 51 53 54 55 55 — Netherlands 55 56 56 56 57 58 59 59 59 — Norway 53 54 54 55 56 58 59 60 61 — Portugal — — 30 30 30 31 31 32 33 — Spain 37 38 38 38 39 39 39 40 39 39 Sweden — — — — — — — — —. — Switzerland 47 48 49 51 52 52 53 53 53 — Turkey 17 18 18 18 19 19 20 20 20 — United Kingdom 52 53 54 55 54 54 55 55 55 55 Source: OECD—Labour Force Statistics.
Note: Service industries are defined as: wholesale and retail trade, restaurants and hotels; transport, storage and communication, finance, insurance, real estate and business services; community, social and personal services. Activities not adequately defined are also included in the figure.
§ Mr. Adleyasked the Secretary of State for Employment if, for the years 1950 to 1982, he will list (a) the actual numbers of people employed in the service sector and (b) this number expressed as a percentage of the employed population.
§ Mr. GummerThe following table shows the numbers of employees working in service industries and the proportions they formed of the total employed labour force:
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Employees in Employment: Service Industries* (GB) June Thousand As percentage of total employed labour force† 1950 8,698 38 1951 8,698 38 1952 8,753 38 1953 8,787 38 1954 8,924 38 1955 8,993 38 1956 9,138 38 1957 9,247 39 1958 9,258 39 1959‡ 9,379 39 1959|| 9,788 42 1960 9,965 42 1961 10,177 43 1962 10,477 43 1963 10,651 44 1964 10,846 44 1965 11,037 45 1966 11,221 45 1967 11,188 46 1968 11,244 46 1969 11,243 46 1970 11,292 47 1971 11,358 47 1972 11,637 49 1973 12,063 49 1974 12,214 50 1975 12,522 51 1976 12,601 52 1977 12,679 52 1978 13,240 53 1979 12,878 53 1980 13,363 54 1981 13,124 56 1982¶ 12,971 56 * Defined as orders XXII to XXVII of standard industrial classification (1968) in the period 1959 (second row) to 1982 and as orders XIX
to XXIV of standard industrial classification (1948) in the period 1950 to 1959 (first row). † The employed labour force includes employees in employment, self-employed and armed forces. ‡ The estimates for 1959 (first row) and earlier years are based on counts of national insurance cards. || The estimates for 1971 and later years are based on employment censuses and surveys; those for 1959 (second row) to 1970 were derived from counts of national insurance cards but have been adjusted to be comparable with the census-based figures for later years. ¶ Provisional.