Labour Market Information

If you want to know....

• What the current and future skill shortages are in Northern Ireland
• What the chances are of finding a job in a particular field
• What kinds of jobs are on the increase

....go to the new user friendly Industry Fact Sheets covering the 25 Northern Ireland Sector Skills Councils which will answer all of these questions.


Sector Skills Councils (SSCs)

N.I. Skills Task Force

Social Economy, Belfast

DETI Labour Market Statistics

Research & Evaluation Branch

Research and Evaluation branch aims to carry out relevant research and evaluation services in relation to Labour Market Information/Intelligence.

They produce the following publications: -

Labour Market Bulletin

Published annually, the Labour Market Bulletin includes summarised findings of research projects carried out on behalf of the Department for Employment and Learning. This is available on their website - please note this is an extremely large publication and will take some time to download. 
   
For other publications which are available in hard copy please contact -

Tel: 028 90 257686

Economic Research Institute of NI (ERINI)

A centre of excellence in skills forecasting. It has set up the Priority Skills Research Unit to research skill areas identified as critical to the N.I. economy. It provides the Northern Ireland Skills Task Force with projections of the likely supply/demand balance in skills. For more detail and their publications visit their website.

Social Economy, Belfast

Social Economy, Belfast(SEB) is a consortium of agencies, which came together in 2005 to deliver a Belfast Local Strategy Partnership funded programme of support for new and developing social businesses in the Belfast area.

The consortium is made up of several organisations who work in the economic and social development arena in Belfast. They are Work West, South Belfast Partnership Board, East Belfast Enterprise and the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities (NICEM).

The idea behind Social Economy Belfast is to collectively support the social economy sector in Belfast and its surrounding areas. Among ethnic minority communities SEB creates new social economy projects, new social enterprise ideas, new jobs within social enterprises and new opportunities for new and existing social enterprises to expand and grow.

DETI Labour Market Statistics

For statistical information on employment, unemployment, the economically inactive, regional analysis/trends and more.