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Mr. William Ross
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what studies she has (a) commissioned and (b) evaluated into the age structure of (i) full-time farmers and farm-workers and (ii) part-time farmers in Northern Ireland; how many (A) males and (B) females there are in each such category; and what were the figures (1) five, (2) 10 and (3) 15 years ago. [17356]
Mr. Paul Murphy
Information on the age structure of full and part-time farmers and farm-workers is collected in periodic EU Structure Surveys, the latest of which was carried out in 1997.The numbers requested in part(II) of the question are:
| Full-time farmers and farm-workers | Part-time farmers | |||
| Year | Male | Female | Male | Female |
| 1997 | 20,835 | 1,487 | 12,693 | 1,886 |
| 1992 | 23,680 | 3,133 | 10,675 | 3,334 |
| 1987 | 26,774 | 3,632 | 9,517 | 3,029 |
| 1982 | 28,759 | 4,641 | 9,181 | 2,902 |