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Mr. Henderson
asked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the average income per household at the latest available date on a regional basis throughout Scotland.
Nursery | Primary | Secondary | Special | Total | |||
Argyll and Bute | … | — | 6 | 1 | — | 7 | |
Ayr | … | … | — | 26 | 5 | — | 31 |
Dunbarton | … | … | — | 29 | 2 | — | 31 |
Glasgow | … | … | — | 109 | 26 | — | 135 |
Lanark | … | … | — | 68 | 20 | — | 88 |
Renfrew | … | … | 6 | 54 | 24 | 4 | 88 |
Total | … | … | 6 | 292 | 78 | 4 | 380 |
Mr. Gregor MacKenzie
The estimated average weekly income per household for Scotland in 1976, the latest year for which information is available, was £80·35. This information is not available for regions within Scotland, but average weekly earnings of full-time manual and non-manual workers for each region in Scotland in April 1977 were as follows:
Full-time workers whose pay was not affected by absence | ||
Local Government Region | Men (21 and over) | Women (18 and over) |
£ | £ | |
Borders | N.A. | N.A. |
Central | 81·7 | 45·9 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 68·7 | N.A. |
Fife | 75·9 | 49·5 |
Grampian | 81·0 | 51·1 |
Highland | 78·3 | N.A. |
Lothian | 78·2 | 47·4 |
Strathclyde | 79·4 | 49·3 |
Tayside | 72·6 | 49·1 |
Islands | N.A. | N.A. |
Scotland | 78·3 | 48·9 |
Source: Department of Employment New Earnings Survey April 1977, as published in Scottish Economic Bulletin No. 14. | ||
The estimates are subject to sampling errors. | ||
N.A.=Not available. |