The local labour market
Whilst looking into the local labour market, I have decided to study
some of the figures from the national statistics and look into how WPA
would use them if they needed to recruit new employees both locally
and nationally.
Resident population and age
The resident population of west Somerset, as measured in the 2001
census, was 35,075, of which 47 percent were male and 53 percent were
female.
The majority of the population in west Somerset are aged 30 to 59 with
38.3 percent of the population being in this age group. This is
slightly less than the percentage of 41.5 percent in the age group of
30 to 59 in England and Wales. .6 percent of people in west Somerset
and aged 16 to 19 compared to 4.9 percent of people in England and
Wales. There is a very minimal difference, therefore if WPA wanted 16
to 19 year olds as they have just finished school and may be going
into full time or part time work, west Somerset has almost the same
percentage of this age group.
If WPA wanted school leavers they could look locally and have the same
number of people on average from that age group.
Health and provision of care
In west Somerset, 64.7 percent of people asked said they would
describe their health as good, this is only slightly less than the
percentage of people in England and Wales with 68.6 percent. In west
Somerset however 25.5 percent of people would describe their health as
fairly good this is higher than the national average of 22.2 percent.
West Somerset had a higher percentage of people who had a long-term
illness with 22.3 percent, the national average is 18.2 percent.
If WPA were to use this information they could see that 90.2 percent
of people in West Somerset said they had good or fairly good health,
but 90.8 percent of people as a national average said they had good or
fairly good health, this tells WPA that people living in Somerset have
good health so they would have a very large selection of people living
in Somerset who have a good or fairly good health to choose from, they
could therefore attempt to recruit locally then if they are
unsuccessful they can then recruit nationally where there is only 0.6
percent more people who said they had good or fairly good health.
Economic activity – unemployment
Unemployment rates are lower with 2.9percent in West Somerset compared
to a national average of 3.4 percent. This means that there may not be
a large selection of qualified people in the West Somerset area so WPA
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