Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 29 November 2018
128. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons as a percentage classified as underemployed out of the number employed in each of the years 2005 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [50040/18]
View answerCSO data on underemployment is only available from 2008 onwards. The number underemployed as a percentage of employed was 4.7% in Q3 2008. It peaked during the recession at 8.0% in Q3 2012 and has since fallen to 4.9% in Q3 2018.
Table
Persons aged 15 years and over in Employment (Thousand), both sexes, Quarter 3
|
2008Q3 |
2009Q3 |
2010Q3 |
2011Q3 |
2012Q3 |
2013Q3 |
2014Q3 |
2015Q3 |
2016Q3 |
2017Q3 |
2018Q3 |
|
|
In employment |
2209.8 |
2006.8 |
1930.6 |
1885.2 |
1887 |
1961.8 |
2008.9 |
2079.9 |
2158 |
2206.5 |
2273.2 |
|
In employment part-time - underemployed |
104.7 |
118.5 |
113.9 |
143.4 |
150.4 |
144.3 |
130.9 |
113.7 |
107.5 |
115.8 |
111.5 |
|
Underemployed as percentage of employed |
4.7% |
5.9% |
5.9% |
7.6% |
8.0% |
7.4% |
6.5% |
5.5% |
5.0% |
5.2% |
4.9% |
Link to data on CSO website:www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?maintable=QLF01&PLanguage=0.
