In 2018, the number of employees in the extraction of crude petroleum industry in the United Kingdom decreased by 622 employees (-4.65 percent) since 2017. Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work.
Number of enterprises in the crude petroleum extraction industry in the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2018
Characteristic
Number of enterprises
2018
12,745
2017
13,367
2016b
16,767
2015
16,179
2013
13,694
2012
14,239
2011
12,605
2010
14,703
02,5005,0007,50010,00012,50015,00017,50020,000
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b: Break in time series. Structural business statistics (SBS) describes the structure, conduct and performance of economic activities, down to the most detailed activity level (several hundred economic sectors). Number of enterprises: a count of the number of enterprises active during at least a part of the reference period. Definition for number of enterprises differs in some countries. Data coverage corresponds to code B061 of CE Rev 2.
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