Existing Labour Market Intellingence (LMI) for the UK construction sector does not provide the level of information required to enable detailed insights into segments of the construction industry commonly known as specialists. This covers hundreds of sectors and occupations, but information in important areas, such as, sector composition, workforce characteristics, skillls levels, gaps and needs and training undertaken is missing.
In response to this issue, CITB has undetaken ground-breaking research as a pilot study with 17 specialist sectors to capture LMI through qualitative and quantitative interviews. From this, it is proposed to develop a template for, as required, futher research with the remaining specialist sectors.