HC Deb 07 December 1989 vol 163 c357W
Mr. Barry Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the percentage of households whose head is a non-manual worker by education authority.

Mr. Wyn Roberts

The latest available information comes from the 1986 Welsh inter-censal survey. The percentages classified to non-manual groups are shown in the following table:

Percentage of households headed by non-manual1 head, 1986
County Per cent.
Clwyd 37.5
Dyfed 38.2
Gwent 34.2
Gwynnedd 43.1
Mid Glamorgan 29.9
Powys 41.5
South Glamorgan 47.3
West Glamorgan 35.0
1 Professional, managers, employers, intermediate and junior non manual. Includes farmers working on own account. Includes retired heads of household whose former occupation was non-manual.