30th July 2010, 11:56 AM
Well, maybe there is a glass ceiling "at work" between "the gods" and us, but I can't see it...ouch...just hit it again... But agree it is amiss there's no year by year breakdown of job gains/losses in one sector if you're going to merge it with the rest of the data, and isn't it vitally necessary to have categorical equivalence in the data when "doing the stats" on the professional upturn/downturn as a whole (but here it's the commercial hat being examined so strictly not a relevant but all the same tangentially signifcant quibble - just take away 2827, absolutely, though that might not please everybody!!)? So are those yearly (or shorter time-set) details available, I haven't seen where they are - through lack of serious looking, any pointers please.
If the following is already out there too, apologies....Perhaps overall business confidence could be measured by the change, per set period (month perhaps), in the number of RAOSs (and other categories if seen fit) reporting a rise in cost/manhour or other unit measurement for various types of work involved in, versus a drop in that. Might do away with working out the far trickier nature of rise and drop in actual numbers employed, which needs to be plotted and distributed weekly really to detect meaningful trends I'd have thought, and say what that actually implies longer-term commercially for archaeology.
If the following is already out there too, apologies....Perhaps overall business confidence could be measured by the change, per set period (month perhaps), in the number of RAOSs (and other categories if seen fit) reporting a rise in cost/manhour or other unit measurement for various types of work involved in, versus a drop in that. Might do away with working out the far trickier nature of rise and drop in actual numbers employed, which needs to be plotted and distributed weekly really to detect meaningful trends I'd have thought, and say what that actually implies longer-term commercially for archaeology.