Low carbon and renewable energy sector employment

Dyddiad y datganiad:
16 July 2019

You asked

I would like to know how many people are employed in the low carbon and renewable energy (LCRE) sector in Scotland.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

Estimates of full time equivalent direct employment in the Low Carbon and Renewable Energy (LCRE) economy in Scotland, broken down by Industry (Standard Industrial Classification 2007 definition), for 2014 to 2017, may be found here:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/adhocs/010173lowcarbonandrenewableenergyeconomysurveyestimatesofdirectturnoverandemploymentbyindustrywithassociatedmeasuresofestimatequalityscotland2014to2017

For 2017, the latest year of available data from the LCRE economy survey, estimated full time equivalent direct employment in the LCRE economy in Scotland within the Manufacturing industry was 4,500.

This estimate has a 95% confidence interval of 3,600 to 5,400. A 95 per cent confidence interval is a range within which the true population would fall for 95 per cent of the times the sample survey was repeated. It is a standard way of expressing the statistical accuracy of a survey based estimate.

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