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16/12/2003
Monitoring report reveals Catholic employment up
Catholic employment levels in Northern Ireland have grown over the past year, it was revealed today.
The 13th annual Monitoring Report published by the Equality Commission shows that, in 2002, 59.1% of employees were Protestant and 40.9% were Catholic.
Compared with 2001, the number of Protestant employees fell by 0.6%, while Catholic employment levels grew by 1.7%. This resulted in the Catholic share of the monitored workforce increasing by 0.6 of a percentage point. Over half (50.8%) of the monitored Northern Ireland workforce is female, a figure influenced by the disproportionate number of women working part-time.
Commenting on the report, Joan Harbison, Chief Commissioner of the Equality Commission, said: "The Report provides an overall view of the monitored workforce in 2002 and of long-term trends in its composition. That is useful for the Commission and for everyone working to ensure fair participation in the Northern Ireland workforce.
“The importance of the statistics gathered through monitoring, however, reaches down through all sectors of the workforce, through different types of employment, to the level of individual firms. It is from analysis of this data from their own business or organisation that employers can assess what needs to be done to deal with any problems of under-representation or lack of inclusiveness.”
The statistics are based on individual monitoring returns from 3,986 employers in both the public and private sectors, covering 481,117 employees.
(MB)
The 13th annual Monitoring Report published by the Equality Commission shows that, in 2002, 59.1% of employees were Protestant and 40.9% were Catholic.
Compared with 2001, the number of Protestant employees fell by 0.6%, while Catholic employment levels grew by 1.7%. This resulted in the Catholic share of the monitored workforce increasing by 0.6 of a percentage point. Over half (50.8%) of the monitored Northern Ireland workforce is female, a figure influenced by the disproportionate number of women working part-time.
Commenting on the report, Joan Harbison, Chief Commissioner of the Equality Commission, said: "The Report provides an overall view of the monitored workforce in 2002 and of long-term trends in its composition. That is useful for the Commission and for everyone working to ensure fair participation in the Northern Ireland workforce.
“The importance of the statistics gathered through monitoring, however, reaches down through all sectors of the workforce, through different types of employment, to the level of individual firms. It is from analysis of this data from their own business or organisation that employers can assess what needs to be done to deal with any problems of under-representation or lack of inclusiveness.”
The statistics are based on individual monitoring returns from 3,986 employers in both the public and private sectors, covering 481,117 employees.
(MB)
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