Added ICT to Bradford doc

Author: DanOlner

_freeze/quarto_docs/Bradford_sectorclusters/execute-results/html.json

@@ -2553,6 +2553,7 @@ sector = thisyr %>% select(SIC07_description_shortened) %>% filter(qg('food manu
 sector = thisyr %>% select(SIC07_description_shortened) %>% filter(qg('arts/ent',SIC07_description_shortened)) %>% pull %>% as.character %>% unique
 sector = thisyr %>% select(SIC07_description_shortened) %>% filter(qg('chemicals',SIC07_description_shortened)) %>% pull %>% as.character %>% unique
 sector = thisyr %>% select(SIC07_description_shortened) %>% filter(qg('real est',SIC07_description_shortened)) %>% pull %>% as.character %>% unique
+sector = thisyr %>% select(SIC07_description_shortened) %>% filter(qg('ict',SIC07_description_shortened)) %>% pull %>% as.character %>% unique
 sector = "Admin"
 
 

_freeze/quarto_docs/Bradford_sectorclusters/figure-html/fig-gvajobsarcheng-1.png

@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ Here are links to other sources used in the analysis below to look at Bradford's
 
 Industrial strategy support for PBS SMEs "targeted and intensive" including support to strengthen export work.
 
+West Yorkshire level strategies (the Local Growth Plan and LSIP) both target high-job-number but not always high-productivity sectors.
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@@ -256,6 +258,7 @@ All code for this analysis is available [here](https://github.com/DanOlner/Regio
 ### Notes on other service sectors
 
 * **Real estate** has a high output per worker everywhere (with imputed rent removed, so this is purely real estate itself, not a reflection of rising house prices). This should arguably be in "strongest service sectors", but it is difficult to discern from the data where the productivity is coming from. Exactly half of the job count in this sector is in 'housing association renting'. Jobs *are* increasing in each of the other subsectors (real estate, agencies, other letting) which are another 1000 jobs and, looking in Companies House data, there are firms like [Dacre, Son and Hartley](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03090769) who employ 100 people and are clearly strong. Job numbers have risen since 2015/17 but output hasn't risen quite as quickly (see GVA vs jobs plot, @fig-gvajobsrealestate). The sector is also productive even by UK standards (195K per FT worker versus 167K). But in this data, it cannot be seen what role housing associations versus other real estate is playing in this.
+* The **ICT sector** in Bradford is relatively small as a proportion of GVA and jobs (though not tiny - it's 1,800 jobs and 1.73% of the economy). But after a fairly stagnant productivity path (@fig-gvajobs1 panel 3), the sector has seen a productivity jump in more recent years (showing up as both reasonable GVA and jobs growth over the whole data period; @fig-gvajobsict), putting it clsoer to the national average (76.8K per FT worker versus 86.K, 2021-23 average). This stronger growth trend than around 45% of other places puts it second only to Leeds in a West Yorkshire productivity ranking, and continuing to climb. Reading the LQ plot for GVA and jobs (@fig-otherLQs) it appears its GVA concentration - steady for a long time - is more recently going up, but possibly with a decline in job concentration. In the last year in the Companies House data, jobs are static (Leeds has grown; other WY local authorities have shrunk). So a mixed picture in a possibly important sector that aligns with the Industrial Strategy.
 * It is tricky to define **architecture/engineering/tech testing's** place in Bradford (SIC 71). It is a large chunk of Bradford's economy - more than 2000 jobs, 1.5% of full time workforce in latest BRES year, and has historically kept around the same number. However - while its GVA per worker in @fig-gvajobs1 was very high in 2015-17, it has dropped off constantly since (while other places in WY have slowly climbed), now approaching the same output per worker as head offices / consultancy (though it is still above the average of other ITL3s). Jobs in the sector have grown in most places, but Bradford is some way into the group where GVA has dropped (@fig-gvajobsarcheng). There has been a jump in job numbers in the most recent data but no GVA jump, suggesting productivity continues to decline. Companies House shows a large number of SMEs in the sector, with modest jobs growth. But this sector (despite technically being under a 'services' heading) is obviously important to manufacturing and other productive output.
     - What factors underpin this steady slope? This data isn't able to say directly, but identifying what's happening here could be a first step to addressing it.
 * **Utilities and power** (5.7% of Bradford's GVA, 2500 jobs in BRES) are tricky sectors to analyse. While the sector appears highly productive in Bradford (187K per FT job versus 138K GB average), differences in this sector largely come down to the capital intensity of the sector. There can be innovative frontier firms in these SIC codes, but the fact that very few firms in these sectors appear in the Companies House data suggests this sector is largely external utilities in the area, and could be difficult to affect.