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Household Incomes

Volume 950: debated on Thursday 18 May 1978

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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.

NurseryPrimarySecondarySpecialTotal
Argyll and Bute617
Ayr26531
Dunbarton29231
Glasgow10926135
Lanark682088
Renfrew65424488
Total6292784380
The regional council has also appointed 9 additional teachers—33 primary and 46 secondary—to schools in Maryhill and

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 RegionMen (21 and over)Women (18 and over)
££
BordersN.A.N.A.
Central81·745·9
Dumfries and Galloway68·7N.A.
Fife75·949·5
Grampian81·051·1
Highland78·3N.A.
Lothian78·247·4
Strathclyde79·449·3
Tayside72·649·1
IslandsN.A.N.A.
Scotland78·348·9
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.