2016 - Employment: Annual Business Survey (ABS)

The Annual Business Survey (ABS), carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), includes statistics on employment broken down by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 2007). In wood processing, SIC 16 (wood products) and SIC 17 (pulp, paper and paper products) have a much wider scope than the data on employment in primary wood processing (Table 7.2), as they include primary processing of imported material and also some secondary processing.

The Annual Business Survey recorded average employment in 2014 of 16 thousand in forestry and 27 thousand in primary wood processing (sawmilling, panels and pulp & paper) (Table 7.1).

Table 7.1 Employment in forestry and wood processing², 2010-2014
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)¹	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
thousands
Forestry	14	14	15	14	16
Wood products
Sawmilling	9	8	8	8	9
Panels	5	4	5	5	5
Secondary products	62	46	53	51	65
Total	76	58	66	64	79
Pulp, paper & paper products
Pulp & paper	13	13	13	13	13
Articles of paper & paperboard	41	45	45	41	45
Total	54	58	58	54	58
Total wood processing	130	116	124	118	137
Total primary wood processing	27	25	26	26	27

Source: Annual Business Survey – average employment in year (Office for National Statistics, June 2016)

Notes:

1. Categories are based on the UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 2007) categories. Further details on the SIC codes used are provided in the Sources: Employment and businesses page.

2. Excludes other wood-using industries.

3. Pulp and paper breakdowns for 2010 to 2014 have been suppressed in the figures released by ONS. The figures shown here are estimated from 2008 figures.

2016 – Employment: Annual Business Survey (ABS)

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