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Scotland's Census 2001 - Statistics on Travel to Work or Study

Occupation of commuters

Table 8A shows the occupations of people living in each council area.

People living in East Renfrewshire were the most likely to be managers and senior officials (19 per cent) with those living in West Dunbartonshire the least likely (10 per cent).  Edinburgh was the only one of the four main city council areas where there were more managers and senior officials than the Scottish average.

People living in City of Edinburgh (19 per cent) and East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire (both 18 per cent) were the most likely to have professional occupations.  Those living in Moray were the least likely (8 per cent).  People living in Glasgow City and Aberdeen City were more likely than for Scottish people as a whole to have professional occupations, although those living in Dundee City were slightly less likely.

Workers living in City of Edinburgh were the least likely in Scotland to work in skilled trades occupations, personal service occupations and as process, plant and machine operatives.

Workers living in Inverclyde were the most likely to work in sales and customer service occupations.

Table 8B shows the same information as Table 8A, except that people are classified by the council area in which they worked.

A higher proportion of people working in City of Edinburgh were managers and senior officials or had professional or administrative/secretarial occupations than anywhere else in Scotland.  They were less likely than workers elsewhere to have skilled trades or elementary occupations or to work as process, plant and machine operatives.

People working in each of the four main city council areas were more likely than people working elsewhere to work in professional, associate professional & technical and administrative/secretarial occupations.

The four main city council areas gained “daytime population” across all occupation types (Table 8C).  The largest gains for Aberdeen City and Dundee City were in the associate professional and technical occupations while, for City of Edinburgh and Glasgow City, the largest gain was for administrative and secretarial occupations.

Two thirds of the 24 Scottish local authority areas which lost “daytime population” lost people in every occupation category.

Every council area lost managers & senior officials, except the four main city council areas.  However, only 20 of the 32 council areas lost people in skilled trades occupations.

South Ayrshire, which gained in overall “daytime” population, gained for all types of occupation except managers & senior officials, professional occupations and associate professional & technical occupations.  Similarly, Stirling gained for all but two occupation groups - managers & senior officials and professional occupations.