asked the Taoiseach the percentage income received by the agricultural community out of the national income in each of the past ten years.
Written Answers. - Agricultural Community's Income.
247.
The information available on income relates to that arising in the agricultural sector and is estimated in aggregate form for the national accounts. The estimates cover the income from self-employment and other trading income arising in agriculture from farming activities together with wages and salaries of farm employees. Trading income represents the amount available to remunerate farm holders and members of their families for their labour and management and to cover interest on capital.
The following table shows the income arising in the agricultural sector as a percentage of the total national income for each year 1970 to 1979.
Data for 1980 are not yet available.
|
Year |
1970 |
1971 |
1972 |
1973 |
1974 |
1975 |
1976 |
1977 |
1978 |
1979 |
|
Percentage of national income arising in agriculture |
15.9 |
15.5 |
17.7 |
18.6 |
15.5 |
17.1 |
16.3 |
18.2 |
17.1 |
13.4 |