Scottish Economic Statistics 2008

Table 4.18: Median gross weekly earnings of full-time employees, Scotland and UK, 1997-2007

Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Office for National Statistics
Notes:
1 Employees on adult rates whose pay for the survey pay-period was not affected by absence.
2 Workplace based estimates.
3 Excluding supplementary information.
4 Including supplementary information.
5 Methodology consistent with 2005.
6 Methodology consistent with 2007.
7 To improve coverage and hence make the survey more representative, supplementary information was collected from the 2004 ASHE survey onwards on businesses not registered for VAT and for people who changed or started new jobs between sample selection and the survey reference period. The 2004-2006 ASHE results are therefore discontinuous with the results for 2003 and previous years, for which no supplementary information was collected. However, for 2004 two sets of results are given; the headline results that include supplementary information and results that exclude this information. These second set of results are given solely for comparison to earlier years.
8 2007 results take account of a small number of methodological changes which will improve the quality of results. These include changes to the sample design itself, as well as the introduction of an automatic coding tool, ACTR. Therefore, these results are only continuous with the 2006 results that have been produced using this methodology and are discontinuous with results from previous years. A second set of results is also provided for 2006 which is based on the old methodology to allow comparisons with earlier years.