Category Discussion & Text
Employment – Key Patterns
Two key patterns emerge from the data: See also: Skills Development Scotland, Regional Skills Assessments, Aberdeen City and Shire, 2021 (link) and Skills Matrix (link). Aberdeenshire Employability Partnership (link), ABZ Works (link) and Moray Employability (link).
Employment Rates
The most reliable source for employment rates by ethnicity is the Census. In 2011, employment in the Grampian region was higher than in Scotland as a whole, for both Scottish/British people and ethnic minorities. This follows the general pattern of…
Oil & Gas Context
Any discussion of employment in North East Scotland would be incomplete without considering the dominant role of the oil and gas industry. Oil price fluctuations have far-reaching consequences in all sectors, as seen in 2015-16 and 2020-21. Skills Development Scotland…
National Insurance Number Registrations for Overseas Nationals
During the 18-year period from 2002-2020, over 100,000 overseas nationals applied for new National Insurance Numbers (NINO) in Grampian. Annual registration rates varied between a low of 1,496 in 2002 and a high of 8,926 in 2007. As shown in…
Mothers’ Country of Birth
Between 2007 and 2019, the proportion of births to non-UK born mothers in Aberdeen increased from just under a quarter to just over a third (23% to 36%). During that period, the average in Scotland as a whole increased from…
Country of Birth
In 2020, Aberdeen City had the highest proportion in Scotland of non-UK born residents: 24%, or 56,000 people, with slightly more than half born in the EU and half outside the EU. For Aberdeenshire and Moray, the figures were 9%…
Population
While the decade between 2009-2019 was a period of overall population increase in North East Scotland, recent years have seen a reversal of this trend, most likely due to the loss of jobs in the oil and gas sector, and…