Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Jobs for the .... ?

An extract from the latest employment stats published by the DCMS - looks like one problem's shifting, but another looms large.

Ethnicity
 Of all jobs in the Creative Economy in 2014, 11.0 per cent were filled by BAME workers, a similar level to the UK economy.
 Between 2013 and 2014, there was a 12.5 per cent increase in the number of BAME group jobs in the Creative Economy. The increase for the White group was 4.0 per cent.
 In Creative Industries in 2014, 11.0 per cent of jobs were filled by BAME workers.
 The number of BAME workers in the Creative Industries increase by 8.0 per cent between 2013 and 2014 (34.3% since 2011), compared with a 5.1 per cent (14.7% since 2011) increase for White workers in the Creative Industries.

Socio-Economic Class
 In 2014, 91.9 per cent of jobs in the Creative Economy were done by people in more advantaged socio-economic groups (NS-SEC 1-4), compared to 66.0 per cent of jobs in the wider UK economy.  More advantaged groups made up 92.1 per cent of jobs in the Creative Industries.

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