HC Deb 10 June 1991 vol 192 cc435-7W
Mr. Maxton

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give the(a) total number, (b) percentage of (i) female part-time workers, (ii) male

Full time employees on adult rates with hourly earnings less than £3.40
April 1990
Number in the sample Percentage of total
Women Men Total Women Men Total
Scotland 998 638 1,636 25.0 9.5 15.3
Borders 46 ֵ ֵ 61.3 ֵ ֵ
Central 59 27 86 28.8 7.5 15.2
Dumfries and Galloway ֵ 25 60 ֵ 14.3 22.6
Fife 70 37 107 34.1 9.9 18.5
Grampian 99 58 157 28.1 7.7 14.2
Highland 43 24 67 30.1 11.0 18.6
Lothian 148 114 262 19.1 9.5 13.2
Strathclyde 401 266 667 22.7 9.1 14.2
Tayside 91 68 159 26.8 13.3 18.7
Islands ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ ֵ
Highlands and Islands 49 31 80 28.0 11.1 17.6
Great Britain 8,187 5,542 13,729 20.5 7.4 12.0

Source: New Earnings Survey 1990.

Notes:

(1) "ֵ" denotes sampling error too high or numbers too small for reliable estimate.

(2) "—" denotes information not available.

(3) The survey excludes significant numbers of part-time employees with low weekly earnings.

Part time employees on adult rales with hourly earnings less than £3.40
April 1990
Number in the sample Percentage of total
Women Men Total Women Men Total
Scotland 1,024 53.8
Borders ֵ ֵ
Central ֵ ֵ —1
Dumfries and Galloway ֵ ֵ
Fife ֵ ֵ
Grampian 113 53.3
Highland ֵ ֵ
Lothian 183 52.9
Strathclyde 401 50.1
Tayside 97 58.1
Islands ֵ ֵ
Highlands and Islands ֵ ֵ
Great Britain 10,848 1,023 11,871 52.2 49.1 51.9

Source: New Earnings Survey 1990.

Notes:

(1) "ֵ" denotes sampling error too high or numbers too small for reliable estimate.

(2) "—" denotes information not available.

(3) The survey excludes significant numbers of part-time employees with low weekly earnings.

All employees on adult rates with hourly earnings less than £3.40 April 1990
Number in sample Percentage of total
Women Men Total Women Men Total
Scotland 2,022 1 1 34.3 1 1
Borders 67 1 1 59.3 1 1
Central 115 1 1 38.2 1 1
Dumfries and Galloway 2 1 1 2 1 1
Fife 144 1 1 45.7 1 1
Grampian 212 1 1 37.6 1 1
Highland 2 1 1 2 1 1
Lothian 331 1 1 29.5 1 1
Strathclyde 802 1 1 31.2 1 1
Tayside 188 1 1 37.2 1 1

part-time workers, (iii) female full-time workers, (iv) male full-time workers, (v) all full-time workers, (vi) all part-time workers, and (vii) all workers in (I) Scotland, (2) Great Britain and (3) each Scottish region with hourly earnings of less than £3.40.

Mr. Jackson

The figures available from the new earnings survey are given in the tables:

Number in the sample Percentage of total
Women Men Total Women Men Total
Islands 2 1 1 2 1 1
Highland and Islands 2 1 1 2 1 1
Great Britain 19,035 6,565 25,600 31.3 8.6 18.6

Source: New Earnings Survey 1990.

Notes:

The survey excludes significant numbers of part-time employees with low weekly earnings.

1—denotes information not available.

2—denotes sampling error too high or numbers too small for reliable estimate.