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BSIA Members Employees ('000s)

	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06
AC				0.6	0.5	1.1	1.5	1.2	1.2	1.5	1.5	1.5	2.7	2.5	2.6	2.1	2.1	2.1	2.5
CAS																			2.5
CCTV	0.6	0.8	1.2	0.9	0.6	1.3	1.6	2.0	2.2	1.6	1.6	1.8	3.9	3.7	3.8	4.0	4.0	3.7	4.0
CPM														0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
CVIT	15.2	17.3	18.1	19.0	19.4	20.6	14.0	12.0	12.7	12.8	12.8	14.7	12.9	12.2	11.4	12.6	15.0	12.1	11.5
ID													0.2	0.9	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.9
PPS														0.7	1.7	8.2	6.9	8.5	10.7
PSE						0.2	0.6	0.9	1.3	2.0	1.9	1.7	1.9	1.7	1.8	1.5	1.2	1.1	1.3
S	1.5	0.9	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.7	0.8	**
SC																		0.1	0.1
SD										**
SED									0.2	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.4	0.4
SEM	1.8	1.7	2.0	1.7	1.6	2.2	2.3	2.4	2.1	2.6	2.6	2.0	1.8	1.6	2.0	1.7	2.2	1.9	2.0
SG	30.4	30.9	34.5	33.7	33.7	40.6	41.7	50.2	55.2	56.0	55.8	65.7	66.9	75.7	75.7	72.3	75.4	75.5	79.1
SS	8.6	9.5	10.5	7.3	6.5	6.5	7.9	7.1	8.6	11.0	11.0	11.1	8.6	11.5	10.0	10.1	10.4	9.6	9.4

Total	51.8	61.1	67.3	64.2	66.8	73.4	70.5	76.5	84.3	88.1	87.8	98.9	99.0	110.8	110.0	113.5	118.4	116.0	124.6

Key to sectors:

AC - Access Control	CAS - Civil Aviation	CCTV - Closed Circuit TV
CPM - Cash & Property Marking	CVIT - Cash & Valuables in Transit	ID - Information Destruction
PPS - Police & Public Services	PSE - Physical Security Equipment	S - Safes
SC - Security Consultants	SD - Safe Deposits	SED - Security Equipment Distributors
SEM - Security Equipment Manufacturers	SG - Security Guarding	SS - Security Systems

Further information on BSIA sectors

The above statistics are compiled from information supplied by the members.
The number of member companies supplying statistics has risen from 71 in 1983 to 540 at the end of 2005.

* prior years contained non security parcel carriers.
** Safe's & Safe Deposit amalgamated with PSE 1/1/97.