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Job Creation Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 14 February 2017

Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Ceisteanna (82)

Bernard Durkan

Ceist:

82. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Taoiseach the total number of jobs created here in the past five and a half years. [6640/17]

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The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available. The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is the official source of estimates of employment in the State. The most recent figures available are for Q3 2016.

Table 1a shows the number of persons aged 15 years and over in employment in Q3 of each year from 2010 to 2016.

Table 1b shows the annual change in the numbers of persons aged 15 years and over in employment in Q3 of each year from 2011 to 2016.

As Table 1a shows the overall stock of persons employed at given points in time, the annual changes which are calculated using these stock figures depend both on the number of jobs lost and jobs created over the period in question. The QNHS does not record whether a job is newly created.

Table 1a Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO), Q3 2010- Q3 2016

'000

Q3 10

Q3 11

Q3 12

Q3 13

Q3 14

Q3 15

Q3 16

In employment

1,886.1

1,845.6

1,841.3

1,899.3

1,926.9

1,983.0

2,040.5

Table 1b Persons aged 15 years and over in employment (ILO), Q3 2011- Q3 2016 - Annual change

'000

Q3 11

Q3 12

Q3 13

Q3 14

Q3 15

Q3 16

In employment

-40.4

-4.3

58.0

27.7

56.0

57.5

Data may be subject to sampling or other survey errors, which are greater in respect of smaller values or estimates of change.

Source: Quarterly National Household Survey, Central Statistics Office.

Reference period: Q3=July-September.

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