§ Lord Graham of Edmontonasked Her Majesty's Government:
What are the latest figures for the average weekly earnings of: (a) women, (b) men, (c) lone mothers, (d) lone fathers, (e) heads of two-parent families, (f) married women with dependent children and (g) married women without dependent children, respectively.
§ The Secretary of State for Employment (Lord Young of Graffham)The most recent available information relating gross earnings to household564WA composition and circumstances is that provided by the 1983 Family Expenditure Survey and is set out below:
Employees who are head of household Average gross normal weekly wages and salaries(1)(£) All men 170.3 All woman 93.8 One woman with children(3) 63.8 One man with children(3) 156.2(2) One man, one woman and one, two or three children(3) 181.2 For employees who are the wives of the head of household Working with dependent children(3) 55.8 Working without dependent 81.4 Source: Family Expenditure Survey 1983(4) Notes
(1) Covering both full-time and part-time employment. Earnings from self-employment and households where no wages or salaries were received because the individuals were unemployed or unoccupied are omitted from these calculations.
(2) Based on relatively few households and subject to a substantial sampling margin of possible error.
(3) Persons who are under 18 years of age and unmarried are regarded as children in the survey.
(4) The figures relate to the calendar year and are based on a sample of about 7,000 households and will be subject to a margin of sampling and reporting uncertainty.