| "Feet in oven - head in fridge - middle is still average but meaningless" |
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| 22,000 a year |
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| 9 millionaires-1 tramp |
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| 997 |
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| A lot of rich people distort the figures. We never know if figures are made up or not. |
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| Admittedly it gives an average,but with some people receiving 1500 pounds a week and some only 70 pounds-where do they get the average from under the circumstances |
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| As far as they can be - theres a lot of top earners and a lot below the poverty line so the average is the average |
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| Average figures are misleading |
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| Average figures can be manipulated by including bosses' wages |
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| Basically it's just because I do feel that they can sometimes be right and sometimes be wrong. |
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| Because minimum wage of o3.60 or something /I think businesses are not paying staff properly |
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| Because they are national figs and they should really be by area as different areas have different averages |
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| Believe they use the median rather than an arethmetic median. |
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| CORRECT |
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| COULDNT SAY DONT KNOW HOW THEY COLLECT FIGURES |
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| Currently studying subject at school |
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| DOES NOT REFLECT LOCAL LOW EARNINGS |
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| Depends on how they are used and respondent thinks interest rates have been adjusted incorrectly at wrong times etc. |
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| Do not believe them |
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| Do not feel reflect earning in this part of world |
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| Doesn't cover all areas |
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| Dont include eveybody |
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| EMBRACES THE HIGH EARNERS AND THESEDISGUISE THE LOW LOCAL WAGES |
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| Earning vary so much |
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| Experience of svce industtry don't back this up |
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| FAT CATS AND "UNQUALIFIED" PROFESSIONAL ARE AFFECTING THE FIGURES |
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| Figure of high earners give a misleading picture |
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| Find these figures surprising |
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| From own knowledge of friends' and families' salaries. is lower than what they say the average is |
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| Generally correct from what I've heard |
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| Generally gives an accurate figure of average earnings-but I'm concerned mainly about employment figures and recent statistical changes. |
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| Govet does not do shopping-I put them in but they have n o idea of the cost of living |
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| Has never met anyone on average earningsGE |
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| Have not looked at them. |
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| Historical not projecting forward |
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| How information is represented |
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| I DO NOT SEE HOW THEY CAN WORK IT OUT |
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| I always assume they are not correct/scepticism wwould make me say that but they are probably correct |
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| I cant remember the last time my husband got a pay rise |
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| I do not know where they get the figures from |
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| I do not know where they get the figures from.it is way above reality |
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| I do not think the average knows this |
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| I do wage surveys in my area and they do not bear any relation to what the "official" average or regional ones |
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| I don't think about things like that |
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| I don't think that they are presented in a completely honest way /so thte average person unless they investigate them properly they don't give a completely honest picture of what is happening in the real world. |
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| I dont understand how they get averages of pay and they say that the average wage is o400 per week but I dont see that when were on o150 a week |
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| I find them very hard to believe |
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| I generally don't think about it |
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| I live in the country and find that misleading |
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| I suppose that they are generally correct,but I don't really know. |
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| I think Mr Average lives on Mars, he lives nowhere near me! |
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| I think theyre a bit iffy - Im not really sure on those |
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| I'd have to go through the figures as I don't know where the office gets the figures from |
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| I'd like to see how they get those wages, its certainly not from round here, |
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| I'm a bit sceptical I think they can be manipulated as they are controlled by the government |
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| I'm not sure what they are |
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| I've never really studied the figures-I suppose as long as I'm earning some money,I'm happy-with employing people the minimum wage will cause problems for particularly employers. |
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| In this particular area,everyone is at the bottom end of the earnings scale-it's so unrealistic as the national average does not consider differences between areas. |
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| It Doesnt apply to me- nobody earns that much |
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| It varies a lot from area to area, there are some people who do not pay their taxes, people earn such a varied amount from place to place, |
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| It's the same as any average figure-there are people way above and people way below |
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| Ithink the figures are true |
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| Like I said-it's very difficult for someone on my money to consider Mr average-even in my area they will produce figures which are o100 more than I earn per week-it doesn't ring true |
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| Load of garbage |
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| Management earnings overbalance the figures |
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| My earnings were always well below average |
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| NOT BASED ON THIS REGION |
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| Obviously have to take an average |
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| Often correct info but interpreted the wrong way |
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| PROBERBLY NOT A WIDE ENOUGH SCOPE TO BE ACCURATE |
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| Parameters could be wrong |
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| People can earn more than what they say - emphasis is on lowest paid not the centre or highest paid |
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| People do not tell the truth |
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| People will work for any level of pay - how can you generalise? |
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| Perception misleading because averages disguise reality. More useful if broken down by industry/age/gender |
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| Pick the wrong section of the market |
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| Probably correct for southern England but not in Durham. I realise costs are higher in the south |
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| REGIONAL DIFFERENCES - AND OUT OF PROPORTION WAGES MISLEED |
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| Reasonable fair and easier to get hold of |
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| SE has London which swells these figures there should be a seperate section for London |
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| SOME WAGES ARE NOT DECLARED A/E / |
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| Sampling techniques |
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| Seems to be higher than they actually are |
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| Some people have jobs part time |
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| Study stats all the time at school and need to trust they are correct |
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| THE AVERAGE EARNUNINGS FIGURES ALWAYS SEEM HIGHER THAN WHHAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY GET |
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| Take it on face value. Confident in validity of them. No way of checking accuracy |
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| Taking higher paid into account as well as those on low pay - distorts |
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| Taking too many top execs salaries into account- unbalances and unfair to low paid |
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| Tend to break down into areas as well to reflect regional differences |
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| Tends to reflect the mid-mgt and above and not reflect the working groups |
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| They generally reflect the correct figures as most people are on the same rate and this reflects the trends-they're just about to up the rate aren't they. |
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| They juggle the figures |
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| They take into account top earners / o60PA+ which brings the average up / and this isn't realistic |
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| Think that earnings for woman are falsly shown because of part time work & low earnings |
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| Totally misleading-these figures are based on London and the South and have no relation to around here and the north. |
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| Under the Present Govt |
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| Usually accepted that these are correct |
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| WORKING IN LIBYA DON'T HEAR MUCH |
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| Wide range which can mislead |
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| a bit harder to fudge |
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| a good percentage are down in london where wages are much hoigher |
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| a lot of people dont come in to it |
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| absolutely misleading |
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| according to mine whichare well below average |
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| accurate within the cscope of statistics i would trust them more if they told me what they mean by average |
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| again, you have only got to listen to other people |
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| all bulked together/some big wages some small |
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| always have some people that cant reach the national minimum wage |
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| always quote highest wage bracket distorts the figures |
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| any ive seen are certinly higher than the wages in this area |
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| any one that earns the sort of money they say is telling porkie pies a/e |
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| appears misleading, qusetion what based on, is overtime included or not, etc. |
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| are they given regionally;london is very expensive compared to rest of country |
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| av wage is not reality in this area/wages are much lower |
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| average does not represent average in this area. average is a lot less |
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| average earnings are greater than earnings in this area |
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| average earnings are worked out according to london figures and are worked out according to the highhest figurses |
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| average earnings can swayed from the mean average |
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| average earnings do not reflect levels of friends/colleaguews |
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| average earnings seem so high compared with what I and others would get round here |
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| average household not always as it comes across |
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| average income distorted by a few on much higher income |
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| average is completely useless |
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| average men i know don't earn the average wage |
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| average misleading |
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| average taken does not included enough low paid |
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| average wage does not seem to collate to wages round here |
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| averages dont come into it,the working class man compareed to the managers |
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| averages not always true |
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| avge earnings quoted too high |
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| awfully difficult to get a correct figure all the time |
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| band they are selecting from don't cater for the lower end |
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| based on london and not provinces |
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| based on my own experience and talking to other people |
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| becasue some people on very huge salaries are included the figures when 84% of people do not earn anything like that |
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| because comparing pay with what you have printed up |
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| because figure quoted at moment is too high and i imagine 60 per cent of popultn. earns under that |
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| because i dont know anyone who knows what they say is the national average. it causes lots of bad feeling |
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| because i know that when i was earning they gave an average that was way above what it actually was |
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| because money situation has got out of hand eg fat-cats cf. to pensioners |
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| because most local do not geteven 3.60/hr and figures are disguised by high wages |
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| because the unemployed are offered jobs with much lower rates of pay |
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| because they give the figures of the higher paid workers |
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| because they never tell the truth they are a bunch of liars |
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| because vast sums earned by some and who have own 70% and small income earned by many especally the young people |
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| because we are a lot lower than that |
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| becuse its done by averages so its difficult to make out |
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| being retired am out of touch |
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| bit cynical about these figures/extremes spoil the true average |
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| blanket figure .Regional fig more accurate than natiional |
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| but does not reveal the inequalities that arise inearningsthat there are in |
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| cash in hand jobs are missed out and some factories where the workers are too frightened to say what they actually earn |
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| certain categories don't seem to reflect what is going on really |
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| comes down to average weekyl earnings and they certainly do not applt to this area |
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| complete codswallop |
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| complete joke |
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| confusion on Oct.1998 |
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| constantly surprised at some of the figures |
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| correct |
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| correct for down south not correct for scotland |
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| correct for people who are employed |
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| correct for the most part |
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| could be right |
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| covers wide spectrum very highly paid to lowly paid |
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| creative accountancy |
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| data is less subj4ectyive |
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| dealing witn pay there is no such a thing as avera ge we see a cross section |
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| definate sources |
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| definately misleading far too high |
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| definitely |
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| depend on where you live average stats do not relect my area |
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| depends on how the average is arived at |
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| depends on how they are made up average earnings down south higher than uo un scotland |
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| depends on indus location ages |
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| depends on the political calendar |
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| depends where they are picking them up from |
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| depends where you live |
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| diff. variables - v high earners - v. low earners some people doin several jobs |
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| different areas |
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| different areas pay differnet rates of pay |
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| distorted becau8se of extremes of income |
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| dk anything about collection |
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| do not apply to me |
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| do not reflect this area |
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| do not take regional differences into account |
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| do not totally trust figures |
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| do not understand how they arrive at the average earnings figure-they do not do a broard enough range to do an average |
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| does bear reality to the household's that know |
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| does not address people at top end eg major investors |
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| does not measure black economy |
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| does not reflect local conditions |
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| does not reflect very low local wage well below nat av |
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| does not ring true in this area |
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| does not trust them |
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| does semm to apply to anyone i know |
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| doesn't really effect me so I don't know |
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| doesn't really show what is happening as some people earn o70,000 and others earn o10,000. The average earnings is shown as inbetween these 2 when really more people earn the o10,000! |
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| doesnt generally add up |
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| don't affect me |
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| don't agree with any of these statistics |
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| don't know anyone earning av wages |
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| don't know how they work these out they do not seem realistic |
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| don't know many people on average earnings. |
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| don't know they get to the figures but they seem a bit misleading |
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| don't know who their asking to get these figures from |
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| don.t trust statistics |
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| done as a country as a whole instead of area by area |
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| done in a geographical way |
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| dont cateragise it enough too broad a picture |
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| dont know enough about it |
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| dont know peplle on av wage |
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| dont know what they are / av earnings |
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| dont know where on earth they get THEM from/average incomes-not Dronfield |
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| dont know where thay get those numbers from |
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| dont know where they get them from |
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| dont pay any attention these days |
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| dont read about or bother about them |
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| dont really know but feel u cant believe all that u reado |
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| dont reflect the true picture / they take into account high earners ie 250,000 pa + |
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| dont relate to me |
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| dont think they include certain jobs and workers e.g. part time |
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| dont understand it |
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| dont' know what they are |
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| due to be misleading to waht is included |
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| earning in wales to low not the average |
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| earnings at top of scale are so much mmore than at the bottom that averages are meaningless |
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| earnings dont relate to rpi |
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| easier to work out/readily available |
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| easy to measure in public sector.not easy to measure in private sector |
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| eg Govt says nurses pay improved today's papers reprot they are o50 worse off. |
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| england not same as scotland |
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| every hh is different,pensioner hh totally different |
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| every month can be different |
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| everyonr believes them |
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| everything can go down on paper incorrectly i know in my own job when i was nursing i saw what i earnt and then what was put in the papers as my,nurses earnings |
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| everything comes from london where people earn much more |
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| everything is in the past |
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| facts are masked |
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| fairly accurate |
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| fairly correct |
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| feel tha t average wage is most of the time loweer than me i earn lesss than the uk average |
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| feel the figures may refer to southeast of england but certainly not for Scotland at all - not in the world I know they don't seem correct |
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| feels that they do not reflect the local lower wages and is disguised by earnings in other parts of the coun try |
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| figs do not compare with my personal knowledge |
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| figs dont show whether overtime/bonuses etc |
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| figure dont seem to have relevance to my situation |
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| figures don't refer to area i live in around here - I dont really know anyone with the type of wages the talk about per week seems to me a few fat cats are included with there millions and it bumps up the figure for the rest not right to include them |
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| figures don't show people on half time. |
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| figures given on tv can be provocative |
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| figures never realistic to me. |
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| figures put out to suit themselves |
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| figures should reflect high low and average the average is abiove what is normal |
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| firghtening to cvompare own income with others |
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| for instance.my grand daubgthreermher husband,was working overtime for one month to earn extra money so therfore figures can be misleading |
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| from what people have said |
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| genarally correct |
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| general correct but i don't know |
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| general unsure |
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| general; correct |
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| generalised for whole country and not area related which makes a difference |
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| generally abou right |
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| generally corrct |
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| generally correct |
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| generally for a paticular area london not the average earning |
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| generally yes |
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| got them wrong but have now been corrected |
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| government cooks the books |
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| govt chops and changes parameters |
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| govt.is all to cock with the figures they produce |
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| hadnt heard of them but had no confidence in any statistics |
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| hard to get |
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| has no reason for doubting them |
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| have to take everybody into account |
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| having worked in a lot of places particularly in sweat shops, the money given was so low that it wasn,t even mentioned. |
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| heard about |
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| heard but not paid close attention to figs. |
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| helping youngsters with minimum wage introduction |
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| high pay distorts figures |
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| higher earners increase salsry more quickly than lower earners |
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| hopes min.wage will inc.this |
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| how can you get average earnings |
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| i am only interested in the amount i earn |
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| i believe it is probably generally correct |
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| i believe them to be correct |
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| i believe they are fairly accurate |
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| i dont agree with the figure. they say its about 20k per year and i dont think that is correct. |
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| i dont believe an average is a meaningful concept in relation to earning levels |
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| i dont know anybody who earns what is said to be the average |
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| i dont know enough about it |
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| i dont see how they know |
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| i dont take any notice |
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| i dont think that far into these figures |
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| i dont think there s as much to be had from misleading those figs. |
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| i feel that there are alot of employers who don't pay the correct wages to people,i think that it must be impossible to get this information accurately |
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| i havent been employed for quoite a while now but when i wasit |
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| i hope they are correct |
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| i know the way the trade unins work in our place |
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| i never earned what they said was average earnings |
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| i never hit them |
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| i presume they are true though im not all that interested nowadays i live on a fixed income |
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| i see the average figures which are way above earnings in our industry |
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| i suppose they must all be accurate |
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| i take their word for it |
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| i think it is pretty close to the mark |
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| i think that the ones that are earning a lot when they get a 5% pay rise make the poorer seem to be earning alot more on average. |
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| i think the whole system shud change wages are shocking so low here |
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| i think the word average ought to be abolished |
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| i think they are a useful measure i use it hte figs for work |
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| i think they,re calculated down south |
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| i used to use the figures |
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| i wish i had the average earnings |
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| i woul just love to be mrs average its not like that for me i can tell you |
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| i,m not sure they are actually correct |
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| if one man is earning o20 and another o80 the average is o50 but it doesnot apply to either |
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| if you are not invoved with them you have to believe they are right |
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| if you get peoples wages its bound to be correct a/e . |
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| if you take someone on o100 p.w. and someone on o400 the average will be o200 -too many high earners affects figures 3440 |
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| if you work down here on the wages and work in London there's no comparison |
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| imossible to do |
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| in reality a lot of people below minimum wage |
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| include bonuses for CITY which skews the4 figs |
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| information gained not always correctly given |
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| it depends where you live -in ndon you do get the average earnings |
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| it doesnt seem to reflect the no of folk who work for a very low wages say under five pounds an hour |
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| it dont seem correct with everybody |
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| it is nearly correct but sometimes it is misleading |
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| it might be some bodies average but not mine or in my circle so seems wrong figures to me |
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| it seems a long way from what i get,i,m sure they are correct but it is a big gap from i get |
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| it varies |
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| it varies so much from area to area |
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| it's irrelevant /what does average mean/it must be London earnings |
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| its 22 years since I worked so Im out of touch |
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| its an average |
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| its an average thing |
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| its done by a higher class of living - the higher rate of pay seems to dominate and round here the pay is so low |
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| its just an overall broadcast, different circumstances dictate different situations |
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| its nowhere near my wages and ive got a good job for round here |
|
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| its obvious that they always quote how well they are doing make out thier constituents are getting more than they nreally are they quote the gro9ss figs not how they really are |
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| its out of my field of comparison |
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| its taking an average and there are some people belwo the breadline |
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| its unfair some are on 100,000 which bumps up the figures |
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| itsd interpretation again - people dont always tell the truth and nor do firms |
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| ive heared of them but i dont bother with them |
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| just hearing thngs on the tv and then talking locally it doesnt square up |
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| just recently id say gererally correct |
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| knowledge of people you know and what they earn |
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| knows there'sbeen problems recentlywith reliability offigures |
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| last govt misleading |
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| like to know where they arrive we have never been seen |
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| load of bull |
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| london figures for earning weight the result |
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| lot higher than what a lot of people are earning |
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| lot of people don't say what they're earning and they're not on PAYE |
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| lot of people living well below the average wage |
|
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| lot of people on lower earnings than shown in figures |
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| lots of things not taken into account like bonuses and overtime |
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| lower income figure misleading |
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| lower paid need more |
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| made pointsabout black economy asked to pay cash paying cash for jobs done |
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| mainly because earnings seem high to me |
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| mainly english based not representative of scotland |
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| make out people getting more money than they are really |
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| manager on o50000 a year and someone on o10000.how can you average that out |
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| many people dont earn average wage of 200 |
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| might be the mean, but no the mode fig |
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| minimum age will change things |
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| minimum wage is way out |
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| minimum wage will make it believable, i only know what nurses and hospitals get, |
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| minimum wage wont work |
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| misleading |
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| misleading high and low |
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| mistake made last year |
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| more on less than average and very high earners could distort |
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| most people not earning average earnings |
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| much higher salaries in london than in the north... |
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| my average earnings have never been what is stated |
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| my son only earns 102 take home pay as a full times removal man and i have to pay 22 a week rent to have him here so these figures are sometimes misleading |
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| never believe anything I read |
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| never really thought about it |
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| never seem to apply to anyone i know |
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| never seems to be near to what i feel to be average they always seem to be much higher than me and the folk around me |
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| never seen any figures |
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| no average anymore, extremes of wealth and low pay |
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| no idea at all., no idea what people earn |
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| no idea what average earnings are |
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| no political reason to be wrong |
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| no reason to ndoubt their accuracy |
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| no representative as a whole of the country |
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| no such thing as average earnings |
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| no where near |
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| none given but knew about them |
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| north/south divide misleads |
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| not a wide enough band to give average |
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| not a wide enough spectrum of inf gathering |
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| not all factors are ballanced properly and can give mis leading results |
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| not always - we can disprove that in our company -don't read newspaper |
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| not always a true reflection |
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| not always accurate |
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| not always correct |
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| not as worrying as the unemployment figures. |
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| not at work now no interest more interest in what is happening to pensions |
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| not average for me /must be for London |
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| not comparable to this area |
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| not earnt any money for long time wages now sweem enormouse |
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| not everything taken into account such as free accomodation |
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| not how it relates to me I have not had a pay rise for two years |
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| not how it seems to me |
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| not interested |
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| not one who believies what you read in papers |
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| not quite true/london pay rates mentioned |
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| not realistic |
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| not realistic to own experience |
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| not reality |
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| not reality for me |
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| not reality in this area |
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| not something i go into |
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| not sure whether i agree or not |
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| not sure why |
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| not too knowledgeable about statistics - leaves it to husband |
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| not typical in my experience |
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| not up to speed |
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| not worked for some time |
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| nursing inpoor povery brackrt |
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| ok for rest of the country but does not reflect low local wages |
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| only have to look in job centre to see whats on offer |
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| only included if on PAYE |
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| only same reason as for the first one/you're only asking a cross section of people and get a wide variation |
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| only take word of government-yhey have been known to fiddle |
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| other peoples av earnings seem no where newar ours and id say we were pretty average |
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| our company has led us to look for other jobs abd we find the wages we get here are similar |
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| outraegously misleading |
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| over such wide range its m43eaaninglessw |
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| pay rises do not reflect the average |
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| peace work.wages vary |
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| people are not always honest about what they earn |
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| people are not honest about earnings |
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| people are working for much lower wages |
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| people asked give inaccurate information which leads to wrong stats |
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| people can fiddle about with income and can get away with not disclosing their true income |
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| people do not declare all there income |
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| people do not lie about their earnings |
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| people don't always declare their full earnings |
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| people earn less then the government say- figures should be based on tiers of population |
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| people earning a lot less |
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| people give missleading information |
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| people i know dont seem to get these types of income |
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| people in this area no where near average wage |
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| people that are in business know more about this than i do. |
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| people today are greedy and money is not everything |
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| political issues |
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| poor exploited |
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| probably an average |
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| probably correct |
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| probably correct as well on the data that we have |
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| probably fairly correct i tend to find my salary is below the average but some people earn a lot more some a lot less so they cld be right |
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| publishes what it wants to.. |
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| question stats |
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| quite correct |
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| range of figures too wide to get true working man's avge |
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| regional |
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| regional figures correct,national figures misleading |
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| regional picture not reflected in uk fidures |
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| regional thing they tend to put them in together and take the average |
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| regional variations not covered |
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| relying on therefore sometimes coreect /misleading |
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| respondents less likely to tell truth, black economy, people not intending to work |
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| retired and dont follow the figures closely |
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| rubbish |
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| rubbish as well |
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| same because there are a lot of high earners who outweigh the generally lower paid |
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| says average earnings mean nothing to people at bottom/top of pay scales |
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| sceptical about figures |
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| sceptical of stats |
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| see on TV they say that wages are so and so, but here in Suffolk they are nowhere near to that here |
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| seem tio be way above |
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| seem to be |
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| seem to take a higher rate of earnings than an averate rate |
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| seems totally different frrom experience I have, |
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| seldf employed don't tell the truth |
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| she has not worked for several years and takes litle notice of statistics |
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| should be correct |
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| should be lower - going b y people i know |
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| should be showniing whats included and top and bottom |
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| skewed by managerial salaries |
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| so long as you ask what is being counted. |
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| so many misleading figures |
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| so many rich that average rises |
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| so many variations it is impossible to be correct |
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| so out of date by time they come through, also average is such a misleading term, its ridiculous, who is average? |
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| some people earning fortune figures based on people with good jobs |
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| some salaries are very high and skew the figures |
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| sometimes |
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| sometimes correct |
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| sometimes correct sometimes milsleading |
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| sometimes difficult to believe |
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| sometimes high sometimes low |
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| sometimes misleading becvause of complex data |
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| sometimes you wonder where they get the figures from - who do they get to represent the average |
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| somtimes higher than you meet locally |
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| son is paid as a carer and this is much less thsn average earnings |
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| south of birmingham these figures are correct but in this area those figures are ridiculously to high |
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| spot on |
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| statistically average earnings are not a normal distribution curve, peak in different places, so not a useful figure, average is meaningless |
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| such wide variations |
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| suprised at sum |
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| takes a lot of high earners with a lot of low earners/thus the average is meaning less to the lower paid |
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| takes into account very high earners which distorts the average |
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| taking average figures for the whole of the country is misleading for instance average earnings in the north are different from the south |
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| taking highest & lowest should be correct |
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| tend to be based on male earnings i get less than the average wage |
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| that's taking account of people who earn huge amounts like footballers/pop stars |
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| the average always look better than most people actually get s better than it is |
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| the average is a lot higher than i earn and i have a good job |
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| the average is taken from huge differences /it should be bracketed so that they say what the average shop floor worker etc earns and not the average person/it must just be in london |
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| the average person you hear about it and we always seem to be not all that much above it yet were quite well paid comapred to friends |
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| the big ones at the top get the biggest and the others do not get anything like that |
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| the facts don't apply to me |
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| the figures are before tax |
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| the figures don't take in to account how many hours people have to work to get their money,so it is all different |
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| the figures never seem to apply to me. |
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| the general average wage is way out |
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| the gov knows what we are paid through tax returns etc |
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| the government alters the figures |
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| the government figures are not giving a true picture; don't take into account hrs someone needs to work to get av wage |
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| the governments in huge competitiion with europe- we canyt tell germany how bad we are |
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| the range on no.s is not relevent to the lower paid |
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| there all rubbish |
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| there are a lot of people at subsistance level, the high earners must distort figures |
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| there are alot of dishonest people who don't declare their full earnings,and alot of people who work for cash in hand and claim benefits,so the figures are all wrong |
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| there is a lot of black market;people make a lot of money without statistics |
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| there is always going to be more on a lower figure and only a few on a high one-therefore the average is higher than it should be |
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| there is no average earning figure |
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| there is no average wage / everone earns different ammounts / |
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| there must be a heck of alot of rich people about if the figures they publish are correct,i don't think they are as there are so many homeless people about |
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| there must be a lot of people earning much higher than average earnings for the average figure to be so high.i wish i got the average wage. |
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| theres alot of people who dont give their correct earning as they dont want to admit to earning alot and we probably dont collect these figures in our sample |
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| theres far too many different occupations for them to be meaningful |
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| theres is a lot of other things in peoples earnings like benefits which dont show |
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| these figures give the true picture of average earnings i think they give inflated figures. |
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| these should be published by region we can not be compared with london our wages are much lower in the N E |
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| they always are |
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| they always say the average person earns 300 a week and theres no on e round here who earns that |
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| they amaze me they are so much than i used to earn |
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| they are about right |
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| they are nonsence |
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| they are not realistic |
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| they are official statistics so must be correct |
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| they are only given as a guidance |
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| they are over priced |
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| they bear no relation to what people ear in this area |
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| they come up with an average wage ofo 2/300 and the average working man in this area earns far less than thatat |
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| they give a false impression of what most people earn |
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| they give a misleading thing infactI know they do |
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| they have no idea what the average earnings are, I dont think the Gvnt knows about everyday people. |
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| they include millionairs wages |
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| they just do not seem to apply to the area in which I live |
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| they need to come down to reality |
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| they not reality to him |
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| they say average earning is œ300/wk, actual is about œ200/wk, some get œ25000 |
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| they seem an awful lot higher than I get |
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| they should know their business |
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| they take the highest as well as lowest and its misleading if judged on own circs |
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| they take the top earners into account and it distorts the figures |
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| they try to bluff you |
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| think figures possible okaynfor London and SOUTH EAST but totally irrelavent to Scotland and area I live in completely different situation |
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| think they should be factual |
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| thinks well of stats |
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| this area |
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| those averages do not apply around here so I think they are out somewhere |
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| to get an average doesnt relate to what you know of it |
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| too broad a spectrum |
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| too many extremes of income for them to be accurate |
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| totally misleading |
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| totally wrong never been anywhere near average income figure |
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| tripe, quite alot of people are on very high pay and the average is taken and this is misleading as to how normal people live. |
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| try to say minimum wage will cause unemployment average man not paid what he is worth |
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| trying to collect them is difficult and people may not tell you the truth |
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| unknown, no answer relevant |
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| unseen workforce |
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| used as datapoint for other govt figs such as pensions |
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| usually good |
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| usualy wrong, juggled with them |
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| v. feww people earn v. lge salaries and these throw averages out as misleading |
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| varies on where you live |
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| vast generalisation |
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| very difficult to calculate |
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| very exact question |
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| very misleading |
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| way out for me |
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| way out of true figures |
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| we often use them in negotiating pay claims - TUC |
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| we've never been anywhere near it |
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| what are you actually talking about/low paid persons |
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| what other people have said about them |
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| what you see and hear |
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| whats taken in to account is all peoples salary, top earnings tends to inflate wage figures, can not believe figures are average |
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| when they say the average earning you wonder who they are |
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| when working, 90% of time did not come up to average, when we were doing well, too many very high earners included |
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| when you see the figures it seems quite high but when you think of these people who earn obscenely high wages that bumps it up |
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| when you take the highest & lowest,it distortes the other figures |
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| where averages are taken from their is to much of a variruance in wages for it to be true |
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| where do they get the figures from - the inner cities have an added amount for working in a town -this is not paid to country workers |
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| where do they get this from? Between 0 and a maximum is the average, so its nonsense, to receive a decent average you have to work incredible hours, unrealistic. |
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| who earns that much money |
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| whole load of rubbish |
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| wide range |
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| with employing people I think some of the wages they give out are misleading |
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| wonder where they come from |
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| would love to earn the natrional average |
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| would not understand them i am only intrested in my own income |
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| yes they are very misleading |
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| you cannot average a figure it doesen't work like that... |
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| you take the very high and the very low and it doesnt help the person on the low wage to know what the person on the high wage is getting |
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| you think people are in work but 3.60 is not a living wage |
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| youre taking into account directors and lottery winners - they dont reflect the true earnings of the people - this is a low paid area |
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