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Public Sector Employment (PSE) and Resident population - mid year 2006; country and government office region
	PSE average of 4 quarters to December 2006	Mid year population estimate 2006	PSE as a proportion of Resident population (%)
North East	264	2556	10.3
North West	679	6853	9.9
Yorks & Humber	490	5142	9.5
East Midlands	371	4364	8.5
West Midlands	493	5367	9.2
East	463	5607	8.3
London	762	7512	10.1
South East	689	8238	8.4
South West	510	5124	10
England	4720	50763	9.3
Wales	307	2966	10.3
Scotland	584	5117	11.4
Great Britain	5611	58846	9.5
Northern Ireland	221	1742	12.7
United Kingdom	5832	60587	9.6

^{1 Headcount, four quarterly averages are based on estimates over the quarters March (Q1), June (Q2), September (Q3) and December (Q4) 2006.}
^{2 Public sector employment estimates are workplace-based estimates, that is, where people work rather than where they live. Mid-year population estimates measure resident population.}
^{3 Public sector statistics for Northern Ireland relate to the number of public sector jobs rather than the number of people working in the public sector. HM Forces figures are not included in Northern Ireland estimates.}
Sources : Labour Force Survey, returns from public sector organisations (ONS, Scottish Government & Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment for Northern Ireland) and ONS mid-year 2006 population estimates.
Regional PSE as a percentage of the Resident population was presented in figure 3 of Barnard A (2008) 'Regional analysis of public sector employment' Economic & Labour Market Review, vol 2, no 7, pp 31. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/article.asp?ID=2026&Pos=2&ColRank=1&Rank=1

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