§ Mr. Bishopasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish 335W a table showing the hourly rates of working women's earnings, showing the numbers earning each rate and the proportion of the whole they represent.
§ Mr. BryanThe result of the New Earnings Survey, 1970, published in recent issues of the Department'sGazette have provided information about the distribu-
ESTIMATED NUMBERS OF FULL-TIME WOMEN WITH HOURLY EARNINGS IN PARTICULAR RANGES: APRIL, 1970 Earnings Number (thousands) Percentage of Total (shillings per hour) Manual Non-Manual Total Manual Non-Manual Total Under 5 … 270 230 500 13.5 7.2 9.7 5 to 6 … 500 350 850 24.9 11.1 16.5 6 to 7 … 510 400 910 25.2 12.8 17.7 7 to 8 … 350 420 770 17.1 13.4 14.8 8 to 9 … 190 380 570 9.2 12.0 10.9 9 to 10 … 100 310 410 4.7 10.0 7.9 10 to 12 … 70 400 470 3.6 12.8 9.2 12 or over … 30 660 690 1.7 20.8 13.3 Totals … 2,020 3,150 5,170 100.0 100.0 100.0
Notes: "5 to 6" means 5 shillings or more but less than 6 shillings. "Full-time" means normally working for 30 or more hours per week (25 hours in the case of teachers and academic staff) excluding main meal-breaks and overtime. The estimates are subject to sampling error and rounded to the nearest 10,000 after grossing the numbers in the survey sample. The estimates exclude about 300,000 full-time women because hourly earnings could not be calculated for a small proportion of employees in the survey sample.