Triple Dip For Construction - 60 000 Jobs Lost

Generali

Interestingly, when I look at the latest ONS employment data I find this (link - opens in Excel).

That shows a year-on-year fall in construction employment of 20,000 which is not even close to 60,000 and is less than 1% of employees in construction losing their jobs.

It appears, yet again, that DLW is using statistics like the drunken man in the old joke uses a lamppost: more for support than illumination

antrobus

Generali wrote: »

Interestingly, when I look at the latest ONS employment data I find this (link - opens in Excel).

That shows a year-on-year fall in construction employment of 20,000 which is not even close to 60,000 and is less than 1% of employees in construction losing their jobs....

I believe that the "60,000 jobs lost" figure comes from a report by the Construction Skills Network, Blueprint for Construction 2013-2017. (Or at least I expect DLW got the number from the press articles on that report.) CSN don't quote a source for their number so it's unclear where they've got a number that's out of line with ONS data.

http://www.building.co.uk/Journals/2013/01/15/q/r/g/CSN-National-Picture-final.pdf

Generali wrote: »

....It appears, yet again, that DLW is using statistics like the drunken man in the old joke uses a lamppost: more for support than illumination

You do realise that you're talking about someone who doesn't even know how to find out the price of a tin of beans? Expecting him to actually fact check anything as complicated as employment stats is asking a bit much.