Select Committee on Northern Ireland Affairs Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence - Fourth Report

Annex B

CHANGE IN COMPOSITION OF NORTHERN IRELAND WORKFORCE BY OCCUPATION 1990-98 (PUBLIC SECTOR AND PRIVATE SECTOR CONCERNS WITH 26 OR MORE EMPLOYEES)

	1990  %		1997  %		1998  %
	Protestant	Catholic	Protestant	Catholic	Protestant	Catholic
Managers and Administrators	69.5	30.5	63.5	36.5	62.8	37.2
Professional	66.6	33.4	59.4	40.6	58.2	41.8
Associate professional and technical	59.9	40.1	57.7	42.3	57.0	43.0
Clerical and secretarial	65.8	34.2	60.7	39.3	60.5	39.5
Craft and skilled manual	65.7	34.3	64.2	35.8	64.6	35.4
Personal and protective services	71.5	28.5	68.0	32.0	67.9	32.1
Sales	66.7	33.3	59.7	40.3	58.7	41.3
Plant and machine operatives	61.5	38.5	57.6	42.4	57.5	42.5
Other	61.2	38.8	59.0	41.0	59.0	41.0
Total	65.1	34.9	61.2	38.8	60.9	39.1
Note: Percentages based on those for whom a community has been determined.

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Prepared 30 July 1999