Status of employed persons by sex and Welsh local authority

Standard shorthand is used in this table: [c] = confidential information, [u] = low reliability.

Data values	Data description	Year	Age	Sex	Geography
1,238,600	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Wales
28,200	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Isle of Anglesey
49,200	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Gwynedd
45,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Conwy
40,700	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Denbighshire
69,600	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Flintshire
59,400	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Wrexham
59,200	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Powys
32,100	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Ceredigion
45,400	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Pembrokeshire
69,000	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Carmarthenshire
96,800	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Swansea
50,700	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Neath Port Talbot
56,100	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Bridgend
54,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Vale of Glamorgan
139,300	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Cardiff
90,200	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Rhondda Cynon Taf
20,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Merthyr Tydfil
67,700	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Caerphilly
26,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Blaenau Gwent
38,400	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Torfaen
39,600	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Monmouthshire
60,300	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Persons	Newport
665,300	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Wales
15,200	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Isle of Anglesey
26,300	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Gwynedd
24,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Conwy
22,200	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Denbighshire
37,400	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Flintshire
31,900	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Wrexham
33,300	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Powys
17,300	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Ceredigion
24,300	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Pembrokeshire
36,700	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Carmarthenshire
49,800	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Swansea
27,200	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Neath Port Talbot
30,100	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Bridgend
29,000	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Vale of Glamorgan
74,800	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Cardiff
49,700	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Rhondda Cynon Taf
11,400	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Merthyr Tydfil
36,300	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Caerphilly
13,900	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Blaenau Gwent
20,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Torfaen
21,100	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Monmouthshire
32,300	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Males	Newport
573,300	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Wales
13,000	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Isle of Anglesey
22,900	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Gwynedd
21,000	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Conwy
18,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Denbighshire
32,200	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Flintshire
27,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Wrexham
25,900	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Powys
14,700	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Ceredigion
21,000	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Pembrokeshire
32,300	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Carmarthenshire
47,000	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Swansea
23,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Neath Port Talbot
26,000	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Bridgend
25,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Vale of Glamorgan
64,400	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Cardiff
40,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Rhondda Cynon Taf
9,000	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Merthyr Tydfil
31,400	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Caerphilly
12,600	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Blaenau Gwent
17,800	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Torfaen
18,500	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Monmouthshire
27,900	Total in employment	2001	Aged 16 and over	Females	Newport
1,196,900	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Wales
27,000	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Isle of Anglesey
46,900	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Gwynedd
43,200	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Conwy
39,100	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Denbighshire
67,300	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Flintshire
57,400	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Wrexham
55,900	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Powys
29,900	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Ceredigion
43,000	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Pembrokeshire
66,200	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Carmarthenshire
93,500	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Swansea
49,800	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Neath Port Talbot
54,600	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Bridgend
52,600	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Vale of Glamorgan
134,800	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Cardiff
88,800	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Rhondda Cynon Taf
20,200	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Merthyr Tydfil
66,700	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Caerphilly
25,800	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Blaenau Gwent
37,800	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Torfaen
37,800	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Monmouthshire
58,400	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Persons	Newport
650,500	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Males	Wales
14,800	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Males	Isle of Anglesey
25,400	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Males	Gwynedd
23,700	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Males	Conwy
21,500	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Males	Denbighshire
36,700	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Males	Flintshire
31,300	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Males	Wrexham
31,900	Total in employment	2001	Working age	Males	Powys

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Main information

• Most recent update: 26 September 2025
• Next update expected: 9 October 2025
• Designation: Accredited official statistics
• Data provider: Office for National Statistics (ONS)
• Data source: Annual Population Survey (APS)

Data notes

• Rounding applied:

  Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred and so there may be some apparent slight discrepancies between the sum of constituent items and the totals as shown.

Overview

• Summary of dataset and variables:

  The data in this dataset relates to the status of persons employed in Wales, breaking the total down into those who are self-employed or employees and those who are in full time or part time.

  LFS data is collected throughout the year, and is available from the ONS in a variety of ways. This dataset contains the latest annual results, as referred to in the second bullet below:

  • Key data on the labour market is updated every month showing the position for the latest three months, for the UK and each of the UK countries and English regions. Note these data are seasonally adjusted and also that no sub-regional (i.e. local authority) data are published by the ONS to a monthly timetable.

  • Annual results covering the periods described earlier are also available from the ONS, providing more detailed data from the LFS, including data for sub-Wales geographies. These annual datasets use results from the samples for the quarterly surveys used for the key series, together with results from additional persons sampled to provide a more robust (boosted) dataset, with estimates subject to much lower sampling variability.

  Quarterly results are also available, again providing more detailed data from the LFS than the key series, including data for sub-Wales geographies. However, although these data are available earlier than the data taken from the annual datasets, data for sub-Wales geographies taken from the quarterly datasets are no longer included on StatsWales as the results are far less robust than those which come from the annual datasets.

  Note that as data are taken from the ANNUAL Labour Force Survey datasets they do NOT exactly match annual averages derived from the 4 QUARTERLY datasets in the relevant 12 month period covered due to differences in the sampling structure.

• Data collection or calculation:

  These data are taken from the ANNUAL datasets from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), providing labour market data for the local authorities in Wales. The availability of local authority data is dependent upon on an enhanced sample (around 350 per cent larger) for the annual LFS, which commenced in 2001.

  For years labelled 2001 to 2004 in this dataset, the actual periods covered are the 12 months running from March in the year given to February in the following year (e.g. 2001 = 1 March 2001 to 28 February 2002).

  Since 2004, the annual data have been produced on a rolling annual basis, updated every three months, and the dataset is now referred to as the Annual Population Survey (APS). The rolling annual averages are on a calendar basis with the first rolling annual average presented here covering the period 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005, followed by data covering the period 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006, with rolling quarterly updates applied thereafter. Note therefore that the consecutive rolling annual averages overlap by nine months.

  Nomis is the ONS's official portal for labour market statistics. Note that some estimates from Nomis for the APS may differ slightly from those presented here due to differences in how local authority geographies are constructed.

• Statistical quality:

  Annual Population Survey (APS) responses are weighted to official population projections. The projections for 2020 were 2018-based, and, therefore, were based on demographic trends that pre-dated the COVID-19 pandemic.

  To allow for different trends during the pandemic the responses for the APS have been reweighted on the 9 September 2021 to new populations derived using growth rates from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Real Time Information (RTI). The reweighting has been applied from year ending March 2020 data onwards and gives improved estimates of both rates and levels.

  The changes ONS have made to the weighting should reduce the bias of estimates at high levels of aggregation. Some smaller breakdowns may be impacted negatively and more extreme changes could be seen given the reduced size of the underlying sample since the start of the pandemic.

  As the data come from a survey, the results are sample-based estimates and therefore subject to differing degrees of sampling variability, i.e. the true value for any measure lies in a differing range about the estimated value. This range or sampling variability increases as the detail in the data increases, for example individual local authority data are subject to higher variability than Wales data.

• Related reports:
  • Labour market statistics (Annual Population Survey)

Published by

• Organisation: Welsh Government
• Contact email: labourmarket.stats@gov.wales

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