Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the average weekly earnings were for self-employed women in each year since 2002-03.

Table 1: estimated median weekly income (£) from self-employment of women from 2002/03 to 2012/13. These figures cover a period that includes the deepest recession since the 1930s and the initial recovery from a large fall in national income. In the period since 2012/13 the economic recovery has picked up speed, with GDP in 2014 up by 2.6% on the previous year, while the number of people in work increased by more than half a million in the year to November 2014.

Source: Family Resources Survey

Notes:

1. Figures have been adjusted to 2012/13 prices using RPI and are rounded to the nearest pound (£).

2. Self-employment is defined using the ILO definition.

3. The Family Resources Survey is a nationally representative sample of UK households.

4. The figures from the Family Resources Survey are based on a sample of households which have been adjusted for non-response using multi-purpose grossing factors which align the Family Resources Survey to former Government Office Region population by age and sex. Estimates based on survey data are subject to uncertainty due to sampling error and remaining non-response error.

5. Median self-employment income divides the number of people, when ranked by self-employment income, into two equal-sized groups.