Claim: In Belfast, the digital sector employs 26 per cent of the workforce.
Fact-check: Does the tech sector employ 26% of the workforce in Belfast? - FactCheckNI
Verdict: inaccurate. the newspaper article misinterprets the tech nation "jobs and skills report 2020", which states that for belfast, from june to august 2020, 26% of job adverts at the online search site adzura were in the category of it and engineering jobs. using the most recent figures available from nisra, we estimate that 8% of the workforce in belfast is employed in jobs that fall into this category.
Organisation: FactCheckNI
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2020-09-17T00:00:00