asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will provide (a) a breakdown of the number out of work in Great Britain by standard industrial classification together with (b) a similar breakdown for registered job vacancies and (c) a table showing (a) as a ratio of (b).
[pursuant to his reply, 27 October 1980, c. 140]: The following table gives the numbers registered as unemployed and the numbers of notified vacancies remaining unfilled in Great Britain, analysed by each order of the standard industrial classification 1968. The information is for August 1980, the latest date for which an industrial analysis is available. The unemployment figures relate to the industry in which the unemployed person last worked.The vacancy figures relate only to those notified to employment offices and careers offices; vacancies notified to employment offices are estimated to be
| Unfilled vacancies | ||||||||||
| Standard Industrial Classification Order | Numbers unemployed | At employment offices | At careers offices | |||||||
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing | … | … | … | … | 24,788 | 955 | 189 | |||
| Mining and quarrying | … | … | … | … | … | 26,206 | 238 | 35 | ||
| Food, drink and tobacco | … | … | … | … | 51,318 | 2,318 | 189 | |||
| Coal and petroleum products | … | … | … | … | 2,396 | 88 | 11 | |||
| Chemicals and allied industries | … | … | … | 21,477 | 1,542 | 215 | ||||
| Metal manufacture | … | … | … | … | … | 43,451 | 592 | 177 | ||
| Mechanical engineering | … | … | … | … | 55,491 | 4,937 | 423 | |||
| Instrument engineering | … | … | … | … | 6,099 | 963 | 122 | |||
| Electrical engineering | … | … | … | … | … | 36,871 | 4,360 | 339 | ||
| Shipbuilding and marine engineering | … | … | 14,198 | 435 | 126 | |||||
| Vehicles | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 31,009 | 2,197 | 552 |
| Metal goods not elsewhere specified | … | … | … | 50,235 | 2,399 | 236 | ||||
| Textiles | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 44,017 | 1,183 | 150 |
| Leather, leather goods and fur | … | … | … | 3,968 | 196 | 49 | ||||
| Clothing and footwear | … | … | … | … | … | 34,748 | 2,837 | 305 | ||
| Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. | … | … | … | 16,316 | 570 | 64 | ||||
| Timber, furniture, etc. | … | … | … | … | … | 20,009 | 1,206 | 110 | ||
| Paper, printing and publishing | … | … | … | … | 22,260 | 1,260 | 176 | |||
| Other manufacturing industries | … | … | … | 27,458 | 1,153 | 108 | ||||
| Construction | … | … | … | … | … | … | … | 210,006 | 9,349 | 564 |
| Gas, electricity and water | … | … | … | … | 7,658 | 812 | 112 | |||
| Transport and communication | … | … | … | 68,907 | 4,157 | 466 | ||||
| Distributive trades | … | … | … | … | … | 168,671 | 17,482 | 1,846 | ||
| Insurance, banking, finance and business services | … | 39,305 | 7,424 | 901 | ||||||
| Professional and scientific services | … | … | … | 70,452 | 13,153 | 881 | ||||
| Miscellaneous services | … | … | … | … | … | 168,834 | 26,733 | 1,388 | ||
| Public administration and defence | … | … | … | 82,167 | 9,486 | 2,090 | ||||
| Not classified by industry | … | … | … | … | 564,811 | — | — | |||
| TOTAL | … | … | … | … | … | … | 1,913,126 | 118,025 | 11,824 | |