What the median household income figure is in (a) Scotland and (b) each (i) parliamentary region, (ii) local enterprise company area, (iii)…

I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-28499 on 28 September 2006. All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliaments website, the search facilityfor which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.

The following is a corrected answer(published on 2 February 2007);see below

Rhona Brankin: The following table presents the mean and medianannual household income estimates for Scotland based on the Family Resources Survey. Sub Scotlandestimates are not available.
Table: Median and MeanWeekly Household Income for Scotland, 2004-05 (£ per Week)
Gross Household Income
| Net Disposable Household Income
| Net Disposable Household Income (After Housing Costs)
| Equivalised Net Disposable Household Income (Before Housing Costs)
| Equivalised Net Disposable Household Income (After Housing Costs)

Median
| Mean
| Median
| Mean
| Median
| Mean
| Median
| Mean
| Median
| Mean

414
| 538
| 332
| 408
| 286
| 361
| 349
| 397
| 313
| 356

Source: Households BelowAverage Income, The Department for Work and Pensions.
Notes:
Gross householdincome: Total income fromall sources including from Tax Credits, before deductions of income taxand National Insurance.
Net disposablehousehold income: Totalincome after deductions for income tax, National InsuranceContributions, council tax, pension contributions and maintenance payments.
Housing costs: Net disposable income but withrent/mortgage payments, water charges, structural insurance premiums, groundrent and service charges deducted.
Equivalised netdisposable household income:“Equivalised” Income is used to allow comparisons of living standards betweendifferent household types. Income is adjusted to take into account variationsin the size and composition of the household. This adjustment reflects the factthat a family of several people requires a higher income than a single personin order for both households to enjoy a comparable standard of living. The keyassumption is that all individuals in the household benefit equally from thecombined (equivalised) income of the household. There are distinct equivalencescales used for income before housing costs (BHC) and income after housingcosts (AHC).
Median: The income valuewhich divides a population, when ranked by income, into two equal-sized groups.The measure is most commonly used to represent average income due to the highl