United Kingdom (UK): air transport industry number of employees 2018

In 2018, the number of employees in the air transport industry in the United Kingdom remained nearly unchanged at around 80,632 employees. Still, 2018 marked the second consecutive decline of the number of employees in this industry. Nevertheless, the number of employees has been subject to fluctuation over the observed period.
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 air transport industry in the United Kingdom from 2008 to 2018

Characteristic	Number of employees
2018	80,632
2017	80,938
2016b	86,468
2013	70,829
2012	74,713
2011	74,371
2010	76,459
2009	73,125
2008	92,279

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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.
Data for the years 2014 and 2015 was not provided by the source.
The source adds the following information: 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
Structural business statistics (SBS) describes the structure, conduct and performance of economic activities, down to the most detailed activity level (several hundred economic sectors)
Data coverage corresponds to Section H51 of CE Rev 2.

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