The GLA commissioned independent research into the green skills which are expected to grow in demand as London moves to net zero. It uses GLA Economics’ Identifying Green Occupations to identify green skills currently being funded through the Adult Education Budget (AEB), along with relevant Level 4 and 5 qualifications and apprenticeship data. The report includes interviews with employers and providers which capture some of key chall...

This workbook contains supporting data and information that sits behind GLA Economics Working Paper 99. It sets out a working list of 'green' UK SOC2010 occupations (at the four-digit or unit group level).  These occupations have been identified based on a mapping exercise between US (O*NET) and UK (SOC 2010) occupational taxonomies using a crosswalk derived from the LMI for All API. This exercise involves a degree of judgement and the ...

This dataset contains ethnicity pay gap figures for the GLA and estimates for all employees in London. The ethnicity pay gap is the difference in the average hourly wage of white employees and employees of other ethnicities across a workforce. If non-white employees do more of the less well paid jobs within an organisation than white persons, the ethnicity pay gap is usually bigger. This dataset is one of the Greater London Authorit...

Number and rate of economically active residents aged 16-69 who have received training in the last 3 months. Data taken from the 2017 Employer Skills Survey (ESS) has also been included. This measuers whether an employer has funded or arranged training for staff over past 12 months. This dataset is one of the Greater London Authority's measures of Economic Fairness. Click here to find out more.

Workforce Jobs (WFJ) is a quarterly measure of the number of jobs in the UK and is the preferred measure of the change in jobs by industry. It is a compound source that draws on a range of employer surveys, household surveys and administrative sources. WFJ is the sum of employee jobs measured primarily by employer surveys, self-employment jobs from the Labour Force Survey, and government-supported trainees and Her Majesty's Forces from ...

Unemployment numbers and rates for those aged 16 or over. The unemployed population consists of those people out of work, who are actively looking for work and are available to start immediately. Unemployed numbers and rates also shown for equalities groups, by age, sex, ethnic group, and disability. The data are taken from the Labour Force Survey and Annual Population Survey, produced by the Office for National Statistics. The data are...

Economic inactivity rates for London and the UK by month. This dataset also includes annual data that reports economic inactivity by reason, gender, ethnic group and disability.

Number and percentage of residents aged 16-64 who are in employment by sex (000's) (Seasonally adjusted), for rolling quarters since 1992 by region and country. The figures in this dataset are adjusted to compensate for seasonal variations in employment. Figures are released every month for rolling quarters. Data from ONS Table HI00. The data are taken from the Labour Force Survey and Annual Population Survey, produced by the Office f...

Skills for Londoners is the first dedicated post-16 skills and adult education strategy produced by a London Mayor. It sets out the contextual skills challenges London faces, along with the priorities and actions required to make the London skills system the envy of the world and achieve the Mayor’s vision for: ‘A City for all Londoners – making sure Londoners, employers and businesses get the skills they need to succeed in a fair, incl...

From 1 August 2019, the Secretary of State for Education delegated responsibility for the commissioning, delivery, and management of London’s Adult Education Budget (AEB) to the Mayor of London. In early 2020, the AEB Mayoral Board agreed that AEB programme data should be published following the Department for Education’s Further Education and Skills data publication and in line with the UK Code of Practice for Official Statistics (whic...