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Question reference: S3W-39423

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people were employed in Dundee in each industrial sector in each of the last three years for which information is available, broken down by gender.

The official source of employment levels at local authority level is the Annual Population Survey (APS). The latest available data is for July 2009 to June 2010. Table 1 shows how many people were employed in Dundee City local authority, in each of the last three years by industrial sector and gender.

Table 1: Employment Levels by Broad Industry Sector and gender for Dundee City Local Authority, 12 months to June 2008, 2009 and 2010

	2008			2009			2010
	Gender		All	Gender		All	Gender		All
	Male	Female	All	Male	Female	All	Male	Female	All
A-B: Agriculture and fishing	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
C,E: Energy and water	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
D: Manufacturing	*	*	7,600	6,500	2,100	8,600	*	*	6,400
F: Construction	*	*	6,200	*	*	5,700	*	*	4,700
G-H: Distribution, hotels and restaurants	7,300	7,000	14,400	9,400	7,300	16,700	8,200	9,000	17,100
I: Transport and communication	*	*	3,400	*	*	3,900	*	*	4,000
J-K: Banking, finance and insurance etc	4,100	5,800	9,900	4,900	5,500	10,300	6,800	5,500	12,300
L-N: Public admin, education and health	10,300	22,600	32,900	8,000	22,000	30,000	10,000	22,800	32,700
O-Q: Other services	2,100	2,500	4,600	3,300	2,500	5,700	*	*	4,800
Total	38,800	41,100	79,900	41,000	40,800	81,800	42,000	40,800	82,800

Source: Annual Population Survey, Office for National Statistics.

Notes:

*Estimate suppressed as below reliability threshold or disclosive

1. Employment levels are for those aged 16 and over.

2. Data may not sum due to rounding.

3. Industry sectors based on SIC 2003 industry classifications. Data for 2008 and 2009 converted from SIC 2007 classification. Conversions from SIC 2007 to SIC 2003 are not exact.

4. Estimates are workplace based.

5. Data rounded to nearest hundred.

Question reference: S3W-39430

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of full-time male employees in the public sector in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-39432

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of full-time male employees in the private sector in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-39429

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of full-time employees in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

The following table shows the median gross weekly pay for employee by gender in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The median is the recommended measure of average earning.

Table 1 “ Median Gross Weekly Pay (£) for Full-Time Employee Jobs in Scotland by Gender and Public/Private Sector Classification

Gender	Sector	Year
Gender	Sector	2008	2009	2010
Male	Public	548.10	565.60	579.60
Male	Private	485.20	480.00	495.10
Female	Public	488.10	514.40	536.90
Female	Private	343.00	345.00	350.00
All	All	462.60	472.80	488.20

Source: ASHE.

Notes:

1. The estimates are based on the earnings of full-time employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.

2. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

Question reference: S3W-39427

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of male employees in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-39426

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of employees in each of the last three years for which information is available.

The preferred source for earnings estimates is the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), carried out by the Office for National Statistics.

The following table shows the median gross weekly pay for employee by gender in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The median is the recommended measure of average earning.

Median Gross Weekly Pay (£) for Employee Jobs in Scotland by Gender

Gender	Year
Gender	2008	2009	2010
Male	465.70	471.00	483.00
Female	303.90	313.00	313.00
All	375.00	384.50	393.30

Source: ASHE.

Notes:

1. The estimates are based on the earnings of employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.

2. The estimates are based on a sample survey, and as such, are subject to sampling error.

Question reference: S3W-39428

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of female employees in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-39433

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of full-time female employees in the private sector in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-39431

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the median gross weekly pay has been of full-time female employees in the public sector in each of the last three years for which information is available.

Question reference: S3W-39012

Asked by: Marlyn Glen, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 February 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the percentage of eligible women screened for cervical cancer has been in (a) NHS Tayside and (b) the Dundee Community Health Partnership area in each year since 2006, also broken down by age group.

The percentage uptake¹ of women who had a record of a previous screening test taken within the last 3.5 years is in the following table:

NHS Tayside, 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2010.

Age Group	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
	% Uptake	% Uptake	% Uptake	% Uptake
	3.5 Years	3.5 Years	3.5 Years	3.5 Years
20 to 24	53.3	51.0	56.5	56.3
25 to 29	65.4	63.7	67.7	67.8
30 to 34	73.5	72.1	74.9	74.1
35 to 39	77.3	76.4	79.1	78.3
40 to 44	80.3	79.6	81.5	80.3
45 to 49	79.9	79.6	81.6	81.1
50 to 54	80.5	79.4	80.4	79.0
55 to 59	78.5	79.1	79.0	77.6
60 to 64	50.4	70.9	65.3	57.1
Target Age Group (20 to 60)	73.5	72.5	75.0	74.2

The percentage uptake¹ of women who had a record of a previous screening test taken within the last 5.5 years is in the following table:

Age Group	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
	% Uptake	% Uptake	% Uptake	% Uptake
	5.5 Years	5.5 Years	5.5 Years	5.5 Years
20 to 24	56.8	54.2	58.3	57.8
25 to 29	75.0	73.4	74.5	74.1
30 to 34	83.0	81.4	81.3	80.0
35 to 39	86.1	85.3	85.4	84.4
40 to 44	88.8	87.8	87.8	86.2
45 to 49	88.1	87.6	87.9	87.2
50 to 54	88.1	87.1	87.2	85.8
55 to 59	85.6	86.0	85.3	84.2
60 to 64	73.3	86.8	83.5	79.6
Target Age Group (20 to 60)	81.3	80.1	80.8	79.8

Ref: IR2010-00205.

Source: 2006-07 “ ISD(D)4 Legacy applications.

Source: 2007-08 to 2009-10 “ ISD (D)4 SCCRS.

Notes:

1. Based on adjusted Community Health Index (CHI) population denominator (excluding medically ineligible women) for 2006-07. Based on Scottish Cervical Call-Recall System population denominator (excluding medically ineligible women) for 2007-08 to 2009-10.

Cervical screening year runs from 1 April to 31 March.

Information on the uptake rate in the Dundee Community Health Partnership area is not held centrally.