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Appendix B (continued)

Table B.16 – Income and other employment characteristics by highest educational qualification of all employed Other females in 1996
  Highest educational qualification
  No qual. S. Cert. UE/SFC Bursary Diploma Bachelor Postgrad.
Age 38.33 32.71 29.36 23.36 34.66 33.67 37.01
(10.39) (9.13) (8.25) (6.73) (10.24) (8.24) (8.92)
Annual Income 1996 sollars $17,287 $21,489 $22,240 $13,779 $22,992 $26,858 $34,278
($11,910) ($12,140) ($13,816) ($12,934) ($14,796) ($20,369) ($26,213)
Hours worked (per week) 37.29 36.37 36.85 28.44 35.77 36.20 37.35
(15.64) (14.08) (15.56) (17.39) (14.89) (15.10) (15.61)
Managerial/administrative occupation 7.65% 9.08% 9.47% 4.82% 6.86% 10.83% 9.94%
Professional 1.12% 2.80% 3.43% 3.28% 25.86% 34.86% 52.93%
Clerical 10.61% 36.55% 40.12% 34.67% 26.65% 18.76% 9.94%
Service 23.41% 19.25% 21.18% 34.96% 16.87% 10.87% 6.52%
Agricultural 4.51% 1.31% 1.56% 1.46% 1.43% 0.93% 0.55%
Trade orientated 3.22% 2.23% 1.25% 1.09% 0.86% 0.56% 0.00%
Plant and machine operator 20.90% 7.54% 3.93% 2.85% 3.02% 3.22% 0.44%
Elementary/low-skilled 25.59% 12.96% 7.66% 7.15% 5.11% 4.59% 3.20%
Technical 3.00% 8.28% 11.40% 9.71% 13.34% 15.38% 16.46%
 Agriculture and fisheries industry 4.73% 1.60% 1.93% 1.24% 1.78% 1.37% 0.55%
Mining 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.06% 0.00% 0.00%
Manufacturing 33.39% 18.22% 11.03% 7.81% 6.99% 9.02% 3.76%
Electricity 0.12% 0.51% 0.44% 0.29% 0.38% 0.44% 0.33%
Construction 0.55% 1.09% 1.00% 0.51% 0.41% 0.56% 0.11%
Wholesaling 27.71% 26.44% 27.73% 40.22% 20.33% 19.36% 15.03%
Transportation 3.08% 6.11% 6.17% 5.40% 5.11% 4.95% 3.20%
Finance 5.31% 17.53% 21.74% 17.15% 15.95% 25.48% 16.46%
Social services 25.12% 28.50% 29.97% 27.37% 48.98% 38.81% 60.55%
Married 66.67% 52.88% 43.99% 16.72% 56.39% 59.82% 65.64%
Major urban 91.33% 92.06% 92.96% 96.42% 91.20% 93.12% 94.14%
Semi-urban 6.14% 5.94% 5.11% 2.26% 5.27% 4.15% 3.31%
Rural 2.51% 2.00% 1.93% 1.24% 3.53% 2.58% 2.54%
Sample size 5,100 1,751 1,605 1,370 3,148 2,484 905

Standard deviations in parentheses

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