22nd January 2009, 11:10 AM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by BAJR Host
And a very useful one too...
My quaetion would be what the snapshot was of.
would it be possible to know
a) How many companies replied
b) How many employees it represented
c) what regions were worst/best
Again, it's in the report
Sample
Questionnaires were sent to 63 IfA Registered Organisations and to the 59 members of FAME. As there is a degree of overlap (with some organisations being both IfA Registered and FAME members), 98 questionnaires were sent in total. As two of these organisations do not employ archaeologists in the UK (and did not reply to the consultation), and two questionnaires went to subsidiary offices of larger organisations, in total 94 organisations were contacted.
Responses
66 completed questionnaires were returned, along with two notifications of non-response from organisations that declined to provide data.
Three of the returned questionnaires came from organisations that identified themselves as not undertaking commercial archaeological practice, and so their returns are excluded from the analysis below
Results: Job Losses
The respondents employed the equivalent of 2,228.3 people at the time of the Archaeology Labour Market Intelligence Profiling the Profession 2007-08 (LMI) survey in August 2007.
On 1st October 2008, they employed 2,156.4 FTE staff, a decline of 3.2% since the LMI survey.
On 1st January 2009, these organisations employed 1,965.2 FTE staff, a reduction of 8.6% over the previous quarter and 11.8% fewer than in August 2007.