The local labour market :: Business and Management Studies

The local labour marketWhilst looking into the local labour market, I pay off decided to study just about of the figures from the national statistics and look into how WPAwould use them if they needed to recruit new employees both locallyand nationally.Resident population and ageThe resident population of west somerset, as measured in the 2001census, was 35,075, of which 47 percent were male and 53 percent werefemale.The majority of the population in west Somerset are aged 30 to 59 with38.3 percent of the population being in this age group. This isslightly less than the percentage of 41.5 percent in the age group of30 to 59 in England and Wales. .6 percent of people in west Somersetand aged 16 to 19 compared to 4.9 percent of people in England andWales. There is a real minimal difference, therefore if WPA wanted 16to 19 year olds as they have just finished school and may be goinginto generous time or part time work, west Somerset has almost the samepercentage of this age group.If WPA wanted school leavers they could look locally and have the samenumber of people on average from that age group.Health and provision of careIn west Somerset, 64.7 percent of people asked said they would imbibe their health as good, this is only slightly less than thepercentage of people in England and Wales with 68.6 percent. In westSomerset however 25.5 percent of people would depict their health as fair good this is higher than the national average of 22.2 percent.West Somerset had a higher percentage of people who had a long-runillness with 22.3 percent, the national average is 18.2 percent.If WPA were to use this information they could see that 90.2 percentof 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 orfairly good health, this tells WPA that people liveliness in Somerset havegood health so they would have a very large selection of people livingin Somerset who have a good or fairly go od health to choose from, theycould therefore attempt to recruit locally then if they areabortive they can then recruit nationally where there is only 0.6percent more people who said they had good or fairly good health. economical activity unemploymentUnemployment rates are lower with 2.9percent in West Somerset comparedto a national average of 3.4 percent. This means that there may not bea large selection of qualified people in the West Somerset area so WPA