The Scottish Government

LABOUR

INTRODUCTION

At June 2007 a total workforce of 67,200 was employed on 51,000 agricultural holdings in Scotland.The workforce consisted of 41,200 occupiers and spouses and 26,000 employees.

The number of working occupiers on farms decreased by just over two per cent to 27,200. The number of spouses working on the farm also fell, by less than two per cent to 14,000.

The number of hired employees working regularly on farms decreased slightly to 20,300 with the number of full-time employees falling to 13,250 and part-time employee numbers increasing to 7,050. The number of casual and seasonal staff increased by over 20 per cent to 5,600.

Hired labour costs increased by 2.7 per cent to £284.0 million in 2007.

TOTAL WORKFORCE

CHART : Workers on Agricultural Holdings 1982 to 2007

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• Total workforce 1982 to 2007
• Total workforce by agricultural region
• Occupiers and employees by Less Favoured Area category and Highlands and Islands Enterprise Area
• Chart of number of occupiers, spouses and employees over the last 10 years
• Number of occupiers, spouses and employees by region

OCCUPIERS AND SPOUSES

• Number of occupiers and spouses 1982 to 2007
• Number of occupiers and spouses by time spent working and agricultural region
• Age group of occupiers by time spent working and agricultural region
• Age group of spouses by time spent working and agricultural region
• Number of ccupiers and spouses by age group

• Number of employees 1982 to 2007
• Number of full-time employees by agricultural region
• Numberof part-time employees by agricultural region
• Numberof casual and seasonal labour by agricultural region
• Number of full-time employees by size group and region
• Number of employees on main holdings at December
• Average weekly earnings of regular full-time hired workers

FURTHER INFORMATION

More agricultural statistics and information including the Economic Report on Scottish Agriculture, geographic and time series summaries of agricultural census results and details of farm incomes, subsidies and production are available from our agricultural statistics publications. To return to this page use the BACK button on your browser.

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