Public- and private-sector employment

After the row last week about projected numbers of jobs, I was going to do a post based on this chart. Turns out I can’t be bothered, but here’s the chart anyway. It shows annual changes in the numbers of public- and private-sector jobs, and the size of the public-sector workforce relative to the total.


The ONS figures are for the second quarter of each year, except for 2010, for which the latest stats cover Q1.