Research into “green jobs”: time spent doing green tasks, UK: 1997 to 2019

This article provides new experimental estimates of the time spent doing green tasks, over time, by UK country and by industry. It uses a new method, based on task-level data from the O*NET database in the US.
Table of contents:
1. Main points.
2. Definitions used in this research.
3. Distribution of time spent doing green tasks.
4. Time spent doing green tasks by country.
5. Time spent doing green tasks by industry.
6. The Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) research into “green jobs”.
7. Data for time spent doing green tasks.
8. Glossary.
9. Measuring the data.