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The findings of the NOP survey were also fed into a significant review of secondary research, carried out by the Institute of Employment Studies at the University of Sussex (also in the first half of 2001) that is written up as “An assessment of Skill Needs in Information and Communication Technology” (this is the report of the UK Government’s “Skills Dialogue” work for these sectors). The five main conclusions to emerge from this work were: • Demand for professional ICT skills continues to expand (for both fundamental operating systems and programming languages, as well as new Internet-related skills) • Supply is starting to respond, as university output increases and other channels open up; • Skill deficits still persist, through external recruitment shortages and internal skill gaps; • However the worst of the recent skill shortage crisis appears to have passed, as demand slows down and supply catches up; and • Concern is switching from inadequacies in the quantity to the quality of skills supply. From the data gathered for this study, as compared with the situation in some other EU Member States, the Computing Professional (ISCO 213) community in the United Kingdom appears, over the second half of the 1990s, to have had the following characteristics (see Section 4.6 and Annex E for detailed charts): • a comparatively low fraction of women in this employment (Figures 9 and E-1); • above average in terms of the fraction of younger workers (Figures 10 and E-2); • a relatively high percentage of Self-employed Computing Professionals (Figures 11 and E-5); • below average in terms of share of employment within the IS Industry (i.e. IT supply companies) (Figures 12 and E-4); and • a relatively high %age of Computing Professionals in training (Figures 16 and E-8). Overall, in terms of the fraction of the national employed population working in the ISCO 213 occupation (there were no UK returns for ISCO 312), the position in the UK is understandably relatively strong in the Computing Professional community – significant growth over recent years, and positioned second overall behind Sweden. Detailed analyses of the British Computing Professional workforce are provided in Annex E, together with employment level scenarios relating to the four growth rates developed in Section 5. 56 | C E P I S I.T. PRACTITIONER SKILLS IN EUROPE | Section 4
4.7 Some comparisons between the four Member States examined As has been seen, the Eurostat holdings of Member State Labour Force Survey data provide a considerable amount of interesting data. However, not all of this is available for all variables and all Quarters over the five-year period under scrutiny (See Annex A – Table A-5 for details). This section examines those areas of IT Practitioner employment as tracked by the Labour Force Survey data where comparison is meaningfully possible. (N.B. These percentages are based in some cases on source figures of questionable statistical reliability. They should therefore be recognized to be tentative and in need of validation from other sources) Gender split: The first comparison of interest is that concerning the Male-Female split among Computing Professionals in the four countries. Figure 9 shows how this split has developed in recent years in the four countries examined, in terms of the percentage of all in employment who are female. Figure 9 Female Employment as Computing Professionals (Source: Eurostat Holdings of Member State LFS Quarter 2 Data) Percent of all in Employment who are Women 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 Germany Ireland Sweden U.K. 0 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Year As can be seen, Ireland boasts the highest fraction of female Computing Professionals, with nearly twice as high a proportion as is found in the UK and Germany. Sweden, where around ¼ of Computing Professionals are women, lies in between, but the trend in all four countries, following an apparent rise in 98/99, is negative in terms of women’s participation. C E P I S I.T. PRACTITIONER SKILLS IN EUROPE | Section 4 | 57
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Annex D Analyses of Eurostat Data:
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