§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what information his Department has on the current weekly earnings by social class or social-economic group in Scotland.
§ Mr. LangInformation of the form requested is not available. The table provides estimates of average gross weekly earnings by occupational group for April 1986, the latest date for which such information is available at present. These statistics will appear in the 1986New Earnings Survey part E, which will soon be available in the Library of the House.
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Average Gross Weekly Earnings in Scotland Full-time employees on adult rates, whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence April 1986 Occupational Group Males £ Females £ I Managerial (general management) .. .. II Professional and related supporting management and administration 277.4 182.0 III Professional and related in education, welfare and health 243.3 175.1 IV Literary, artistic and sports .. .. V Professional and related in science, engineering, technology and similar fields 262.3 147.4 VI Managerial (excluding general management) 249.2 .. VII Clerical and related 159.2 119.1 VIII Selling 181.6 97.4 IX Security and protective service 207.7 .. X Catering, cleaning, hairdressing and other personal service 137.1 94.4 XI Farming, fishing and related 131.1 .. XII Materials processing (excluding metals) 167.4 106..7 XIII Making and repairing (excluding metal and electrical) 172.2 106.8 XIV Processing, making, repairing and related (metal and electrical) 200.5 127.0 Males Females 176W
New dwellings started by Local Authorities Financial Years Area 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 Total Scotland 4,195 4,578 2,694 2,030 2,372 2,175 1,705 1,665 21,414 Borders 31 93 24 65 32 59 38 16 358 Berwickshire 22 29 0 0 11 8 38 8 116 Ettrick and Lauderdale 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 Roxburgh 4 12 20 55 21 51 0 8 171 Tweeddale 0 52 4 10 0 0 0 0 66 Central 269 187 79 86 73 88 149 139 1,070 Clackmannan 222 23 0 0 0 1 23 30 299 Falkirk 33 23 24 68 40 75 126 103 492 Stirling 14 141 55 18 33 12 0 6 279 Dumfries and Galloway 320 399 271 313 226 274 136 195 2,134 Annandale and Eskdale 103 193 146 124 136 144 44 51 941 Nithsdale 123 80 50 18 27 18 64 68 448 Stewart ry 78 39 51 73 11 64 0 62 378 Wigtown 16 87 24 98 52 48 28 14 367 Fife 493 139 197 193 244 157 214 247 1,884 Dunfermline 150 69 0 83 101 14 74 140 631 Kirkcaldy 70 25 88 29 51 83 103 85 534 North East Fife 273 45 109 81 92 60 37 22 719 Grampian 731 1,100 668 437 730 477 380 410 4,933 Aberdeen 346 595 165 84 78 133 45 81 1,427 Banff and Buchan 167 180 230 117 159 120 116 70 1,159 Gordon 0 0 89 32 274 1 112 84 592 Kincardine and Deeside 46 4 20 80 40 78 105 66 439 Moray 172 421 164 124 179 145 2 109 1,316 Highland 244 439 218 185 229 264 103 252 1,934 Badenoch and Strathspey 26 10 41 54 38 16 16 0 201 Caithness 49 60 20 0 55 30 4 21 239 Inverness 33 126 79 38 84 109 0 131 600 Lochaber 19 90 6 12 0 0 0 0 127 Nairn 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 20 44 Ross and Cromarty 92 99 63 38 31 65 12 34 434 Skye and Lochalsh 1 25 9 13 0 24 32 20 124 Sutherland 24 29 0 30 21 20 15 26 165 Lothian 68 66 127 43 96 32 110 40 582 East Lothian 15 31 17 43 94 25 110 40 375 Edinburgh 29 35 110 0 0 0 0 0 174 Midlothian 24 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 31 West Lothian 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2
Occupational Group £ £ XV Painting, repetitive assembling, product inspecting, packaging and related 170.5 112.4 XVI Construction, mining and related not identified elsewhere 171.1 .. XVII Transport operating, materials moving and storing and related 166.6 .. XVIII Miscellaneous 161.0 .. All non-manual occupations 238.3 139.1 All manual occupations 173.0 103.2 All occupations 201.3 129.8 .. indicates not available, because the estimate would be based on a sample of fewer than 50 employees or would have a standard error of more than 4 per cent, (that is, there would be a 1 in 3 chance that the estimate would be in error by more than 4 per cent.)
Source: 1986 New Earnings Survey Part E (forthcoming)