United Kingdom (UK): textile manufacturing sector number of employees 2018

In 2018, the number of employees in the textile manufacturing industry in the United Kingdom decreased by 4,433 employees (-7.54 percent) since 2017. This decrease was preceded by an increase in number of employees in this industry.
According to Eurostat employed persons are all persons aged 15 and over who performed work, even for just one hour per week, for pay, profit or family gain during the reference week or were not at work but had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent because of, for instance, illness, holidays, industrial dispute, and education or training.

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Total number of employees in the textile manufacturing sector in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2008 to 2018

Characteristic	Total number of employees
2018	54,358
2017	58,791
2016b	52,877
2015	49,991
2014	60,600
2013	53,887
2012	51,968
2011	53,165
2009	55,250
2008	61,852

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Release date

March 2024

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2008 to 2018

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds further explanation: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work.
Data coverage corresponds to Section C13 of CE Rev2.

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