andMr. McQuillan asked the Taoiseach whether it is a fact that the employment rate in non-agricultural work is increasing at the rate of 10,000 per year.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Employment Figures.
3.
The latest published estimates of the number of persons at work in non-agricultural economic activity are those given in Table 16 of Economic Statistics issued prior to the Budget 1962. In that Table, the total for 1961 was 10,000 greater than the total for 1960.
4.
andMr. McQuillan asked the Taoiseach the total number of persons in employment in 1957 and in 1963 at the most recent date.
5.
asked the Taoiseach the estimated number of employees at work in each year from 1950 to date.
With your permission, Sir, I propose to take Questions Nos. 4 and 5 together and to circulate in the Official Report a statement giving (a) the estimated total number of employees in each year 1951-58, and (b) the estimated average numbers in insurable employment based on the numbers of social insurance stamps sold in the years 1950-62. No estimate of the total number of employees has been computed for 1950 and, in the case of years after 1958, it has been decided, as I indicated in my reply to Question No. 6 of 15 February, 1961, not to prepare estimates for later years until the relevant results of the 1961 Census of Population had become available. These data are not yet ready. The figures for average numbers in insurable employment are not comparable over the period shown on account of changes in the procedure for exchanging insurance cards in the years 1952-53 and changes in the upper salary limit for the compulsory insurance of non-manual workers at various periods.
Following is the statement:—
(a) ESTIMATED total number of employees in each year 1951-58 and (b) Estimated average numbers in insurable employment 1950-62.
|
Year |
Total number of employees (000) |
Average numbers in insurable employment (000) |
|
1950 |
n.a. |
489.8 |
|
1951 |
761.5 |
498.9 |
|
1952 |
765 |
514.7 |
|
1953 |
766 |
457.3 |
|
1954 |
767 |
507.1 |
|
1955 |
763 |
496.3 |
|
1956 |
748 |
498.5 |
|
1957 |
745 |
463.1 |
|
1958 |
728 |
462.1 |
|
1959 |
n.a. |
473.1 |
|
1960 |
n.a. |
481.3 |
|
1961 |
n.a. |
486.1 |
|
1962 |
n.a. |
486.6 |
6.
andMr. McQuillan asked the Taoiseach the total average annual number of persons (a) who left school and sought work and (b) who left agriculture, and sought alternative employment between 1932 and 1957 and between 1957 and the most recent date available.
(a) The only relevant data available relate to the estimated number of persons reaching the school leaving age, 14 years, at each year since 1952. The average annual number of such persons in the period 1952-57 was 52,400 persons, 26,700 males and 25,700 females. The corresponding estimated averages for 1958-62 were 58,100 persons, 29,700 males, 28,400 females. It is not possible to state the number of those who actually "left school and sought work.".
(b) No data are available on the gross annual numbers of those who having been engaged in agriculture, sought alternative employment elsewhere.
Can the Parliamentary Secretary say whether those facts were not worked out by the report of the Commission on Emigration in respect of people who left agriculture? There was an average figure given there and I am wondering what is the most recent figure?
The most recent figure is the one I have given the Deputy in my reply. There could be no other figures available.
7.
asked the Taoiseach if he will state in respect of April 1962 the number of persons (a) engaged in agriculture, forestry and fisheries and (b) at work in non-agricultural economic activities.
The estimates requested by the Deputy are not yet available.
They will be available in a matter of a couple of weeks, I presume?
They are not available at the moment.
Not available for publication—is that what the Parliamentary Secretary means?