§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Industry whether the census of production has figures of labour productivity for manufacturing industry as a whole and by sectors in terms of value added per unit of time or some other criterion; and if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing (a) the median and upper and lower quartiles and (b) the average of the whole and the average of the top 80 per cent.
§ Mr. MacGregorEstimates from the census of production for 1979 of average gross value added per head for all manufacturing and for individual sectors are shown in the following table. Information relating to the medians and quartiles of productivity measures will become available later this year.
Order; Standard Industrial Classification (Revised 1968) Gross value added per head £ III—Food, drink and tobacco 9,259 IV—Coal and petroleum products 73,011 V—Chemicals and allied industries 12,216 VI—Metal manufacture 6,529 VII—Mechanical engineering 8,213 VIII—Instrument engineering 6,643 IX—Electrical engineering 7,664 X—Shipbuilding and marine engineering 6,358 XI—Vehicles 7,784 XII—Metal goods not elsewhere specified 7,043 XIII—Textiles 5,594 XIV—Leather goods and fur 5,919 XV—Clothing and footwear 4,626 XVI—Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. 8,856 XVII—Timber, furniture, etc. 7,053 XVIII—Paper, printing and publishing 8,523 XlX—Other manufacturing industries 7,177 III—XIX—AH manufacturing industries 8,154 Note:
The extreme value of gross value of gross added per head quoted for Order IV, coal and petroleum products, reflects the very high value of the output and the relatively low employment of the mineral oil refiniag industry.