§ Mr. David Reedasked the Secretary of State for Employment what is the level of male and female unemployment, in percentages and totals, within the travelto-work area of the Newton Aycliffe Industrial Estate.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithIn the Darlington and Aycliffe travel-to-work area, which includes the Newton Aycliffe Industrial Estate, there were, at 5th April, 1,624 males and 283 females registered as unemployed. The percentage rates of unemployment were 4.6 for males and 1.5 for females.
426Wof full-time workers include all males, all manual males and all manual men. Corresponding averages for part-time workers were calculated but not combined with those for full-time workers to give averages for all workers. For each calculation, the sum of the weekly earnings of individuals concerned in the sample was divided by the number of individuals.
Further information can be found in my Department's Gazette for February, 1971, relating to the October inquiry and for November, 1970, relating to the New Earnings Survey. The volume "British Labour Statistics: Historical Abstract 1886–1968" being published next month includes descriptions of the methods used by my Department in compiling these and other statistics.