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Pay: Cornwall

Andrew George: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the (a) mean and (b) median salary including pro-rata salary for part-time workers of (i) full-time men, (ii) full-time women, (iii) part-time men and (iv) part-time women was in Cornwall in each of the last 10 years. [164071]

Angela Eagle: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Daren Dunnell, dated 13 November 2007:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent parliamentary question asking Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer what the (a) mean and (b) median salary including pro-rata salary for part-time workers of (i) full-time men, (ii) full-time women, (iii) part-time men and (iv) part-time women was in the Cornwall in each of the last 10 years. (16407V)

Levels of earnings are estimated from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), and are provided for all full-time employees on adult rates of pay, whose pay for the survey period was not affected by absence. The ASHE survey, 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 full-time, part-time males and females from 1997 to 2007 for Cornwall.

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Gross weekly pay for employee jobs( a) by Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
	Full time employees				Full time male				Full time female
	Median	Growth rate	Mean	Growth rate	Median	Growth rate	Mean	Growth rate	Median	Growth rate	Mean	Growth rate
1997	250	—	289	—	279	—	319	—	211	—	247	—
1998	253	1	298	3	292	*5	327	3	219	4	257	4
1999	260	3	301	1	283	-3	326	0	226	3	263	3
2000	276	6	318	6	290	2	339	4	251	11	286	9
2001	297	8	337	6	320	10	369	9	252	*1	286	0
2002	303	2	349	3	319	0	372	1	274	*8	312	9
2003	332	—	392	—	362	—	417	—	284	*	349	*
2004 excl	333	-8	395	-8	354	-8	416	-10	308	-5	362	-5
2004 inc(b)	328	—	391	—	354	—	412	—	302	—	357	—
2005	341	4	403	3	365	3	428	4	315	*4	365	2
2006 excl(c)	360	6	415	3	391	7	449	5	326	*4	366	0
2006 inc(c)	359	—	414	—	389	—	449	—	326	*	365	—
2007	373	4	430	4	399	3	459	2	344	*6	389	6
a. Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence. b. In 2004 additional supplementary surveys were introduced to improve the coverage of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. Figures are presented both excluding and including the additional surveys for comparison purposes. c. In 2006 a small number of methodological changes were introduced to improve the quality of the survey These include changes to the sample design itself, as well as the introduction of an automatic occupation coding tool. Figures are presented both excluding and including these changes for comparison purposes. Guide to quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of a figure, the smaller the CV value the higher the The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV - for example, for an average of 200 with a CV of 5%, we would expect the population average to be within the range 180 to 220. CV <= 5% * CV>5%and<= 10% ** CV> 10%and<=20% x CV > 20% Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

Gross weekly pay for employee jobs( a) by Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
	Full time employees				Part time male				Part Time Female
	Median	Growth rate	Mean	Growth rate	Median	Growth rate	Mean	Growth rate	Median	Growth rate	Mean	Growth rate
1997	89	*	100	—	x	x	108	**	89	**	99	*
1998	81	*-9	97	-3	x	x	105	**-3	80	-11*	95	*-4
1999	93	*15	110	14	111	**	133	*27	86	8*	105	11
2000	97	*4	118	7	x	x	x	x	95	*10	115	9
2001	111	*15	125	6	x	x	124	**-11	112	*19	125	*9
2002	109	*-2	125	0	108	**	119	**-3	109	*-2	126	1
2003	120	*	135	—	122	**	133	**	120	*	135	—
2004 excl	125	-1*	147	*-4	117	**0	155	**-26	126	*-1	145	3
2004 inc(b)	119	*	143	—	102	**	143	**	122	*	142	—
2005	125	*5	139	-3	135	**	150	*5	122	*0	135	-5
2006 excl(c)	136	*9	167	*20	x	x	188	*26	138	*13	160	*19
2006 in(c)	136	*	167	*	x	x	190	**	137	*	160	*
2007	140	*3	165	-1	150	**	167	*-12	139	*2	164	3
(a). Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence. (b). In 2004 additional supplementary surveys were introduced to improve the coverage of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. Figures are presented both excluding and including the additional surveys for comparison purposes. (c). In 2006 a small number of methodological changes were introduced to improve the quality of the survey These include changes to the sample design itself, as well as the introduction of an automatic occupation coding tool. Figures are presented both excluding and including these changes for comparison purposes. Guide to quality: The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of a figure, the smaller the CV value the higher the The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV - for example, for an average of 200 with a CV of 5%. we would expect the population average to be within the range 180 to 220. CV <= 5% * CV>5%and <= 10% ** CV>10%and<=20% x -CV > 20% Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics.

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