Tag Archives: Sectors

Financial & ICT Services in the Western Region

Posted on June 25, 2019 by WDC Insights

The WDC has just published the latest in its series of Regional Sectoral Profiles analysing employment and enterprise data for economic sectors in the Western Region. It examines the Financial & ICT Services sector which covers two sub-sectors: ‘Financial & … Continue reading →

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Hospitality plays a larger role in employment & enterprise in the Western Region

Posted on March 29, 2019 by WDC Insights

The WDC has just published its latest Regional Sectoral Profile which examines the region’s fifth largest employment sector – Accommodation & Food Service.  Both the detailed report ‘Accommodation & Food Service Sector in the Western Region: Regional Sectoral Profile’ and … Continue reading →

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Industry’s role in total ‘agency assisted’ jobs declining nationally but remains highly stable in Western Region

Posted on March 21, 2019 by WDC Insights

In a recent post I outlined some of the main findings from our analysis of Census employment data on the Industry sector in the Western Region.   Our recent report ‘Industry in the Western Region: Regional Sectoral Profile’ also examined agency … Continue reading →

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A year in review: WDC Policy Analysis 2018

Posted on January 3, 2019 by WDC Insights

Happy New Year from the WDC Policy Analysis team!  As we all try to settle back into work and look forward to 2019 (well as much as anyone can with Brexit looming large on the horizon) it’s a good chance … Continue reading →

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The Health & Care Sector in the Western Region

Posted on November 26, 2018 by WDC Insights

Today we published the second in our series of ‘Regional Sectoral Profiles’ analysing employment and enterprise data for the Western Region on specific economic sectors and identifying key policy issues. The new report examines the Health & Care Sector, the … Continue reading →

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What’s happening in our regional economies? Growth and change in Regional GVA.

Posted on April 30, 2018 by WDC Insights

In the last blog post on this subject, Leprechauns in Invisible Regions, the very significant changes in GVA and GDP[1] at a regional level between 2014 and 2015 were discussed.  These largely applied in manufacturing, with a national growth in … Continue reading →

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Leprechauns in Invisible Regions: Regional GVA (GDP) in 2015

Posted on April 13, 2018 by WDC Insights

Regional GVA (GDP)[1] figures for 2015, and preliminary figures for 2016, were published recently by the CSO.  The 2015 figures are of particular interest as that year (the year of leprechaun economics), there was a level shift in the size … Continue reading →

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Employment by economic sector in western counties: what’s happening?

Posted on November 30, 2017 by WDC Insights

A few weeks ago, the WDC published eight new WDC Insights publications.  Each examined the labour market of a Western Region county, with Galway City and County examined separately. The analysis is based on data from Census 2016. Each of … Continue reading →

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Western Region’s Top 10 Employment sectors

Posted on August 18, 2017 by WDC Insights

Census 2016 Summary Results – Part 2, included data on the number of people working in different sectors.  We’ll be publishing our first analysis of this data for the Western Region shortly, but in the meantime here’s a taster. Top … Continue reading →

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Enterprise in Western Counties

Posted on October 10, 2016 by WDC Insights

Last week the WDC published two new WDC Insights publications.  They were both based on our analysis of the CSO’s Business Demography 2014 data which measures active enterprises in the business economy.[1]  The publications were: WDC Insights: Enterprise Profile of … Continue reading →

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