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Similarly, the below table indicates past and expected employment growth by major occupation group. Over the past five years, a quarter of employment growth (25%) pertained to clerical jobs. This situation is expected to be reflected in the upcoming five years with 20% of employment growth relating also to clerical jobs. Although, elementary occupations only accounted for 8% of the increase in employment growth during the past five years, such occupations are forecasted to inhere more than 18% of the forecasted growth. For the remaining occupations, employment growth in the upcoming years is expected to reflect more or less past trends.
Major ISCO Group
2012
2017
2022
Change 2012 / 2017
Change 2017/2022
[0] Armed Forces Occupations
1,506
1,753
1,947
247
194
[1] Managers
10,871
14,175
17,555
3,304
3,380
[2] Professionals
28,051
33,308
39,922
5,257
6,614
[3] Technicians and Associate Professionals
16,571
22,535
27,501
5,964
4,966
[4] Clerical Support Workers
16,901
27,287
35,235
10,386
7,948
[5] Services and Sales Workers
26,887
37,055
43,837
10,168
6,782
[6] Skilled Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Workers
421
441
514
20
73
[7] Craft and Related Trade Workers
9,160
10,334
11,580
1,175
1,245
[8] Plant and Machine Operators and Assemblers
9,015
10,235
11,549
1,220
1,314
[9] Elementary Occupations
27,137
30,386
37,637
3,249
7,251
Grand Total
146,520
187,510
227,277
40,990
39,767
Table 6: Future outlook by occupation
Since this publication does not incorporate the entire labour market, future employment growth could pertain to other emerging occupations which are not included in this handbook. Thus, possibly influencing the contributing share of the respective sector and major occupation group.
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