Dara Calleary
Question:142. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Taoiseach the net number of jobs that were created in the construction sector during 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4199/14]
View answerTuesday, 28 January 2014
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The Central Statistics Office compiles information on jobs created and destroyed and, by deduction, jobs lost by linking P35L returns from the Revenue Commissioners with the CSO Business Register. The information relates to all employing enterprises from key sectors of the business economy as classified by the standard European classification of economic activity NACE Rev. 2 B-N excluding activities of holding companies. The data are only available for the years 2006 - 2011.
Job creation for an enterprise in a given reference year is measured as the positive difference in the number of paid employees recorded with non-zero reckonable pay in the reference year compared with the previous year. Job creation in the business economy as a whole is the sum of all enterprise job creation.
Job destruction for a given reference year is measured as the negative difference in the number of paid employees recorded with non-zero reckonable pay in the reference year compared with the previous year. Job destruction in the business economy as a whole is the sum of all enterprise job destruction. It should be noted that when interpreting figures, job destruction for a particular year means that these jobs were identified in the previous year but not in the reference year, but some of these jobs may have disappeared sometime during the previous year.
An estimate of net job losses can be derived by subtracting total jobs destroyed from jobs created.
Table 1 shows the level of job creation and destruction in the construction sector each year from 2006 to 2011. A positive figure for net job losses indicates more jobs were destroyed than created relative to the previous year.
Table 1 – Net job losses for the Construction sector, 2006 – 2011
|
Construction |
2006 |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
|
000s |
000s |
000s |
000s |
000s |
000s |
|
|
Jobs as measured by employment records (Number) |
277 |
284 |
229 |
147 |
111 |
94 |
|
Job creation (Number) |
70 |
59 |
30 |
14 |
17 |
17 |
|
Job destruction (Number) |
36 |
53 |
85 |
94 |
51 |
31 |
|
Net job losses (Number) |
-34 |
-7 |
55 |
81 |
34 |
14 |
Question No. 143 answered with Question No. 141.