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To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give the latest percentage and actual figures for economically inactive adult males.
The 1991 census recorded 348,356 aged 16 or over as economically inactive which includes all those retired, permanently sick, students with a job in the week before the census and other inactive. This represents 32.4 per cent. of all males aged 16 or over.
To ask the Secretary of State for Wales, pursuant to his answer of 11 May, Official Report, column 444, if he will express the figures for residents aged 16 years or over classified as economically inactive in each (a) district and (b) county in Wales as a percentage of their respective populations.
The information requested is given in the following table:
| Percentage residents aged 16 and over economically inactive | |
| Percentage | |
| Alyn and Deeside | 37·0 |
| Colwyn | 49·5 |
| Delyn | 39·8 |
| Glyndwr | 42·8 |
| Rhuddlan | 49·4 |
| Wrexham Maelor | 41·7 |
| CLWYD | 42·8 |
| Carmarthen | 44·5 |
| Ceredigion | 46·2 |
| Dinefwr | 48·4 |
| Llanelli | 49·9 |
| Preseli Pembrokeshire | 43·9 |
| South Pembrokeshire | 46·3 |
| DYFED | 46·5 |
| Blaenau Gwent | 47·9 |
| Islwyn | 44·1 |
| Monmouth | 40·3 |
| Newport | 42·0 |
| Torfaen | 43·0 |
| GWENT | 43·3 |
| Aberconwy | 46·7 |
| Percentage | |
| Arfon | 44·0 |
| Dwyfor | 48·2 |
| Meirionnydd | 45·7 |
| Ynys Mon-Isle of Anglesey | 45·6 |
| GWYNEDD | 45·8 |
| Cynon Valley | 48·4 |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 48·5 |
| Ogwr | 44·2 |
| Rhondda | 51·0 |
| Rhymney Valley | 45·2 |
| Taff-Ely | 40·2 |
| MID GLAMORGAN | 45·7 |
| Brecknock | 43·8 |
| Montgomeryshire | 39·9 |
| Radnor | 42·5 |
| POWYS | 41·8 |
| Cardiff | 41·6 |
| Vale of Glamorgan | 41·1 |
| SOUTH GLAMORGAN | 41·4 |
| Lliw Valley | 45·3 |
| Neath | 47·3 |
| Port Talbot | 49·7 |
| Swansea | 46·1 |
| WEST GLAMORGAN | 46·7 |
Source: OPCS Census County Report Series Part 1.