asked the Taoiseach if he will furnish a table of agricultural profits and agricultural wages in each year from 1953 to 1962, as estimated in (a) 1961 and (b) 1962; and if he will explain why employee income was overestimated in previous years.
Written Answers. - Agricultural Profits and Wages.
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The information requested by the Deputy is shown in the following table:
ESTIMATED Agricultural Profits and Wages and Salaries.
|
Year |
Profits (including income of farmers and their relatives) |
Wages and Salaries* |
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As estimated for “National Income and Expenditure 1961” and “Economic Statistics 1963” |
As estimated for “National Income and Expenditure 1962” |
As estimated for “National Income and Expenditure 1961” and “Economic Statistics 1963” |
As estimated for “National Income and Expenditure 1962” |
|
|
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
|
|
£(million) |
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|
1953 |
106.5 |
107.2 |
15.5 |
14.8 |
|
1954 |
96.4 |
98.0 |
17.7 |
16.1 |
|
1955 |
107.9 |
110.0 |
18.0 |
15.9 |
|
1956 |
95.4 |
97.5 |
18.0 |
15.9 |
|
1957 |
106.9 |
109.9 |
18.4 |
15.4 |
|
1958 |
96.3 |
99.4 |
18.0 |
15.0 |
|
1959 |
106.1 |
109.1 |
18.3 |
15.2 |
|
1960 |
108.2 |
111.7 |
18.9 |
15.5 |
|
1961 |
115.8 |
119.0 |
18.4 |
15.2 |
|
1962 |
118 |
123.0 |
19 |
15.3 |
*Including employers' contribution to social insurance.
In order to compile an annual estimate of employee income in agriculture it is first necessary to estimate the number of such employees at work each year. The procedure adopted in the period 1951-1961 was to use as bench mark the data from the 1951 Census of Population and to base the annual estimates on the changes recorded in the number of males at work in agriculture as returned at the annual Agricultural Statistics Enumeration.
However, when the 1961 Census of Population figure became available it was found that the figures originally adopted for employees at work considerably underestimated the decline which took place between 1951 and 1961. For this reason, the estimates had to be adjusted downwards to link up with the 1961 Census of Population figure. These revised estimates of the numbers of employees at work in Agriculture are used in compiling the figures in column (4) of the table.