The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 24 July 2007:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what the average wage for (a) full-time and (b) part-time (i) male and (ii) female employee is and what the average household income for working age households was in City of York council area in (A) cash and (B) real terms in 2006. (151612)
Levels of earnings are estimated from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), and are provided for all full-time and part-time employees on adult rates of pay, whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence. The ASHE, carried out in April each year, is the most comprehensive source of earnings information in the United Kingdom.
I attach a table showing the mean and median Gross Weekly Earnings for all full-time and part-time employees in the city of York Unitary authority, for the year 2006.
Estimates of average household income for working age households by council area are not available. Household income statistics for all households in the UK, based on the Family Resources Survey, are produced by the Department for Work and Pensions.
£ Full-time employees Full-time male Full-time female Part-time employees Part-time male Part-time female Median 455 *491 *391 *134 bx *145 Mean 529 *578 444 *167 **148 *174 a Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence. b Figure not published for reasons of quality. Guide to quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the duality of a figure, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV—for example, for an average of £200 with a CV of 5 per cent. (10), we would expect the population average to be within the range £180 to £220. Key: CV <= 5 per cent. * CV> 5 per cent. and <= 10 per cent. ** CV> 10 per cent. and<=20 per cent. x CV>20 per cent. Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.