The City Region Employment and Skills Assessment provides a detailed review of employment and skills issues in the City Region.
It includes an analysis of macro-economic trends, trends in population and migration, trends in earnings, the key drivers of skills change and emerging skills needs, and considers further the balance between the supply of and demand for skills.
The project has three phases.
Phase 1
Completed in September 2009, this phase provides an initial overview of key issues.
Phase 2
Phase 2, produced in November 2009, contains a more detailed employment and skills assessment:
Phase 3
This phase, published in February 2010, contains an updated report on employment and skills issues and also on the impact of recession and some recovery from recession aspects. We also analysed future labour market prospects.
The final report is accompanied by a presentation containing all the charts used in the report.
We've also provided seven datasets. The first six datasets present each category of data behind the charts used in the report. The final dataset combines all of the six datasets.
Where will the Assessment be used?
Our Assessment provides an employment and skills evidence base for:
- The City Region Employment and Skills Strategy
- The development of employment and skills provision
- Investment priorities for a Commissioning Plan which will accompany the Strategy
What's in the report?
The report covers recent trends and likely future patterns in the demand for and supply of labour and skills across the City Region, including:
- Trends in economic performance and the likely impact on the demand for labour
- Key sectors and clusters
- Drivers of skills change and emerging skills needs
- The impact of recession – looking especially at the employment opportunities and skills gaps and mismatches
- Trends in demography and migration
- The quality of labour supply
- Travel to work patterns
- Unemployment and worklessness
- Earnings – evolution and current levels in the City Region
- SWOT analysis – strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for the City Region
Key sectors and clusters in Birmingham
Source: Annual Business Inquiry
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Trends in demography in the City Region
Source: Office for National Statistics, 2006-based population projections
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Note on the data
Although, wherever possible, we have used the most up-to-date data available, please note that sometimes this data pre-dates the recession. However, where available, we have included initial analysis of the impact of the downturn on skills and the labour market. We have also subsumed/added in wide-ranging analysis on key trends and issues going forward.