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Size of Enterprise
Continuing Vocational Training Survey
The majority of organisations with 10 or more employees employed fewer than 50 (82%)
and more than half of all organisations (53%) employed between 10 and 19 employees.
Again, as the data is weighted, this reflects the structure of the population of UK
organisations with 10 or more staff across all their sites.
On average, organisations employed 96 staff. The impact on the average from
organisations with more than 500 staff is significant. There is a significant difference
between Production and Construction and Services organisations in this respect, with the
average number employed in Production and Construction organisations being just 69,
compared with 96 in Services organisations.
Table 18: Size of organisations (number of staff employed across all sites) – overall
and by industry sector (all organisations)
10-19 employees
20 – 49 employees
50 – 249 employees
250 – 499 employees
500 – 999 employees
1000+ employees
Mean number of
employees in 2010
Unweighted sample
bases
Total Production (A-F) Services (G-O)
53% 52% 53%
29% 29% 29%
15% 16% 14%
2% 2% 2%
1% 1% 1%
1% 1% 1%
90 69 96
4604 1861 2743
Just over half (54%) of the workforce on average is male. This proportion varied little by
organisation size (see Figure 32). However, there were very significant imbalances
between sectors. In Production and Construction organisations, the workforce profile was
heavily biased towards male employees (75%:25%), compared with an even distribution of
male and female employees overall in Service sector organisations.
In the overall Service sector, however, there was strong male bias in the Transport and
Storage sector workforce (82%:18%) while Education and Health and Social Work both
employed a significantly higher proportion of females than males (65% and 77% of the
workforce were female respectively).
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