§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each year since 1954 average weekly earnings and average hourly earnings for all hired regular whole time male workers aged 20 years and over as a percentage of adult male earnings of manual workers generally.
§ Mr. JoplingThe information requested is as follows:
Agricultural workers' earnings (England and Wales) as a percentage of those of manual workers in all industries (United Kingdom) Year Per week Per Hour per cent. per cent. 1954 71.8 67.3 1955 70.7 66.2 1956 70.1 66.1 1957 71.5 66.3 1958 73.7 67.7 1959 73.1 68.1 1960 70.2 65.7 1961 70.5 65.1 1962 70.7 65.3 1963 71.5 65.9 1964 70.0 65.0 1965 67.9 63.8 1966 71.3 66.7 1967 70.6 65.9 1968 69.3 65.3 1969 69.8 65.9 1970 66.3 62.7 1971 68.1 63.6 1972 66.1 61.9 1973 67.5 64.3 1974 71.0 69.0 1975 72.4 67.9 1976 75.4 72.4 1977 75.2 71.4 1978 74.0 70.7 1979 74.3 69.9 1980 76.5 71.2 1981 77.3 71.0 1982 77.8 71.6 1983 79.1 72.7 Notes:
For agriculture, earnings are annual averages of regular whole-time 594W male workers 21 years and over until July 1955, and 20 years and over thereafter. For other industries, figures are based on the Department of Employment's October survey of manual workers' earnings and relate to full-time men (until 1979 those 21 years and over and from 1980, those on adult rates) in all industries covered by the survey.