Table 1.

Shift-share decomposition of changes in occupational shares (pp) by different set of groups

	Totald	Education only		Education, age, gender, immigration		Education, age, gender, immigration, geography
		4 groupsa		48 groupsb		400 groupsc
		Between	Within	Between	Within	Between	Within
1979–2012
Bottom	3.5	− 10.2	13.8	− 8.9	12.4	− 8.9	12.4
Middle	− 19.3	− 6.2	− 13.1	− 7.2	− 12.0	− 7.5	− 11.8
Top	15.7	16.4	− 0.7	16.2	− 0.4	16.3	− 0.6
1979–1989
Bottom	0.9	− 3.6	4.4	− 2.2	3.1	− 2.3	3.1
Middle	− 5.9	− 0.3	− 5.6	− 1.3	− 4.5	− 1.5	− 4.4
Top	5.0	3.9	1.1	3.6	1.4	3.8	1.2
1989–1999
Bottom	1.0	− 4.2	5.3	− 4.2	5.2	− 4.5	5.5
Middle	− 6.6	− 1.9	− 4.7	− 2.4	− 4.2	− 2.2	− 4.4
Top	5.6	6.1	− 0.6	6.6	− 1.1	6.7	− 1.2
1999–2009
Bottom	0.3	− 2.8	3.2	− 3.0	3.3	− 2.5	2.9
Middle	− 4.9	− 1.5	− 3.3	− 1.4	− 3.5	− 1.5	− 3.4
Top	4.5	4.4	0.2	4.3	0.2	4.0	0.5

^a4 education groups (higher + further education, A-level, O-level + other, none)

^b4 education groups, 3 age groups (< 30, 31–50, > 50), 2 genders, 2 immigrant status

^c4 education groups, 5 age groups (< 25, 26–35, 36–45, 46–55, > 55), 2 genders, 2 immigrant status, 5 geographies (North, Midlands and EastAnglia, London, South, Scotland + Wales + Northern Ireland)

^dThe between and the within components do not always sum up to the totals due to rounding