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Scottish Economic Statistics 2002
27/03/2002
The third edition of the annual publication Scottish Economic Statistics 2002 is published today.
It provides a comprehensive range of official information on the Scottish economy. This includes macro-economic indicators, the structure of the industrial sectors, household income and expenditure, the labour market, the government sector and sub-Scotland economic indicators.
It also describes the work programme for Scottish Executive economic statisticians in 2002 and contains articles on issues related to statistics on the Scottish economy, including analysis of Scottish Income Inequality, the need for Environmental Accounts for Scotland and a discussion about Scottish Tourism Statistics.
The section on income inequality examines the factors which influence income inequality and estimates the level of income inequality in Scotland compared with the UK level. It presents estimates that show consistently lower levels of income inequality than in the UK as a whole.
The publication contains a wealth of information relating to Scotland within its 66 tables, 37 charts and five maps. Some of the key points are:
- Between 1995 and 2000 output in the Financial Intermediation sector grew by 35%, within an overall growth in GDP of 10% over the same period. [table 1.2]
- The whisky industry has relatively one of the highest impacts on the rest of the Scottish economy affecting almost 19,000 jobs in addition to the 9000 directly employed. [tables 2.4, 2.8]
- 11% of working age people in Scotland were claiming a sick or disabled benefit in August 2001. [table 3.7]
- Of those in full-time employment in Scotland, 76% of men earn less than £540 per week compared to 90% of women. [table 4.5]
- 43 per cent of all women in employment worked part-time in 2001, compared to eight per cent of men. [table 4.2]
- In 2000, Glasgow and Edinburgh both attracted 2.8 million UK tourist visitors. These visitors spent £670 million in Glasgow and £680 million in Edinburgh. [table 6.6]