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Non-Manual Workers

Volume 163: debated on Thursday 7 December 1989

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

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-manual1head, 1986
CountyPer cent.
Clwyd37·5
Dyfed38·2
Gwent34·2
Gwynnedd43·1
Mid Glamorgan29·9
Powys41·5
South Glamorgan47·3
West Glamorgan35·0
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.