asked the Secretary of State for Industry whether the census of production has figures of labour productivity for manufacturing industry as a whole and by sectors in terms of value added per unit of time or some other criterion; and if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing (a) the median and upper and lower quartiles and (b) the average of the whole and the average of the top 80 per cent.
Estimates from the census of production for 1979 of average gross value added per head for all manufacturing and for individual sectors are shown in the following table. Information relating to the medians and quartiles of productivity measures will become available later this year.
| Order; Standard Industrial Classification (Revised 1968) | Gross value added per head |
| £ | |
| III—Food, drink and tobacco | 9,259 |
| IV—Coal and petroleum products | 73,011 |
| V—Chemicals and allied industries | 12,216 |
| VI—Metal manufacture | 6,529 |
| VII—Mechanical engineering | 8,213 |
| VIII—Instrument engineering | 6,643 |
| IX—Electrical engineering | 7,664 |
| X—Shipbuilding and marine engineering | 6,358 |
| XI—Vehicles | 7,784 |
| XII—Metal goods not elsewhere specified | 7,043 |
| XIII—Textiles | 5,594 |
| XIV—Leather goods and fur | 5,919 |
| XV—Clothing and footwear | 4,626 |
| XVI—Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. | 8,856 |
| XVII—Timber, furniture, etc. | 7,053 |
| XVIII—Paper, printing and publishing | 8,523 |
| XlX—Other manufacturing industries | 7,177 |
| III—XIX—AH manufacturing industries | 8,154 |
Note:
The extreme value of gross value of gross added per head quoted for Order IV, coal and petroleum products, reflects the very high value of the output and the relatively low employment of the mineral oil refiniag industry.