HC Deb 23 July 1981 vol 9 cc197-8W
Mr. Ernie Ross

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the number of Scots in socio-economic groups 1 to 5 and their respective percentages of the total population.

Mr. Fairgrieve

Up-to-date information will not be available until the 1981 census returns have been processed. The information shown in the following table is based on a 10% sample of households drawn from the 1971 census and analysed by reference to the social classification of the chief economic supporter of each household; the table does not include persons not residents in households, eg residents in hotels, institutions and so on.

Household Residents
Social class of chief economic supporter Number (thousands) per cent.
Economically active or retired 4,933 96.3
I Professional etc occupations 212 4.1
II Intermediate occupations 806 15.7
III(N) Skilled occupations - Non-manual 517 10.1
III(M) Skilled occupations - Manual 1,808 35.3
IV Partly skilled occupations 937 18.3
V Unskilled occupations 470 9.2
Not classified 182 3.6
Economically inactive (excluding retired) 188 3.7
Students 15 0.3
Others 173 3.4
Total 5,121 100.0