Pension scheme membership

Pension Trends Chapter 7 - http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1277

This podcast from the Office for National Statistics explains how membership of private pensions has changed since 1996.

It looks at differences between men and women and the public and private sector. It then shows how the type of private pension membership has varied since 1997 before showing how membership varies by the age of an employee and also their weekly earnings.

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[onsstats]

Thank you for your comment. The reason that the data is only presented from 1997 onwards is that the pension section was only introduced into the New Earnings Survey (the forerunner to the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings) from this date.

[Sahmeepee]

@gagagoogoostuff Logically your statement doesn't hold together. A much better approach to find out how public and private sector salaries compare would be to look at a study into that specific data, rather than try to glean it from some other source where there simply isn't enough information to go on.

[GaGaGooGoostuff]

So almost twice as many people in the public sector are in a pension scheme than those in the private sector and the more you earn the more likely you are to be in a pension scheme? What does that tell you about public sector salaries; high.

I don’t have a pension and probably will never have one.

[OPAmember]

An excellent presentation. My only criticism is that most of the data only extends back to 1997 which rather implies that the decline of DB schemes can be blamed on Gordon Brown's so-called £5bn tax raid on DB pension schemes. This is misleading because the decline had in fact started before that date in about 1994 and Brown's changes were only one of the contributory factors and certainly by no means the largest. e g See the the Occupational Pensioners' Alliance website: