Falklands’ individual average annual income totals £ 20.100, shows Census
The individual average annual income of the Falkland Islands residents totals £ 20.100 (approx 32.000 US dollars) according to data from the latest 2012 Census, which also showed an exceptionally high economic activity rate and a very tight labour market with just 1% unemployment and 20% of residents with a second job.
The Census showed that in the capital Stanley the average individual annual income was higher at £20,600, whilst in Camp average incomes are 10% lower, averaging £18,400. This refers to all persons aged 16 and over, and includes the retired and people not working.
However these averages mask significant variations in income levels across society - almost half of all residents (49.2%) report an annual income of less than £15,000 (with almost 12% reporting income of less than £5000).
Most retirees report incomes of less than £15,000 per annum, however fully two thirds of all persons reporting incomes of less than £15,000 per annum also report that they are employed.
Unsurprisingly, average incomes for persons in employment are higher. Overall, the average income for employed people was £22,400. Again, average incomes for employment were higher in Stanley (£23,300) than in Camp (£21,100).
The Census also reveals that the Falkland Islands has an exceptionally high economic activity rate – at 83.6% (compared to a level of 76% in the UK). The economic activity rate for males is higher still at 87.5%. This reflects the larger proportion of the female population who are retired or who are not working for other reasons (such as homemakers, family carers etc).
The ‘economically active’ population refers to all persons over the age of 15 who are in employment or who are actively seeking work. This includes persons who are self-employed, those working part-time and those who are unemployed.
The Census also highlights the tight labour market within the Falklands: the unemployment rate is 1% indicating that there is virtually no spare capacity within the labour market to accommodate any additional employment opportunities that may arise in the future. Indeed, almost 20% of persons in employment have more than one job.
The Census asked all persons in employment (whether employees or self-employed) to identify the economic activity they were engaged in.
The largest employment sector on the Islands remains the Falkland Islands Government – accounting for 28% of all employment. Other significant employers in the Islands are agriculture (11%), hospitality and tourism (11%) and transport and communications (12%).
Employment in the agricultural industry continues to decline since 2006 with 189 employees in 2012 (down from 205 in 2006).
“Tourism” was self-selected by a number of residents as their primary economic activity. In strict definitional terms this is not an “industry” hence additional jobs in the tourism sector are included in other categories, such as transport. It is also noteworthy that a significant number of individuals also reported having a second job, with the largest number of such individuals reporting that their secondary employment was in the tourism sector.
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Well said.
Uh ???
Where do you live? I have experience of three large hospitals
Edinburgh Royal, Crosshouse and Ayr
They have some Asian staff but they are very much in a minority. .
Proofs ?
we will have to go to the falklands,
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And you can travel abroad without a rip-off super tax : )
One can spot a petty bourgeois from his ostentatious declarations of wealth and status, ownership of multiple properties and trips abroad to new and interesting places. Fortunately for him and his kind, the RFIP, CBFSAI and the entire British legal system stand ready to defend him - for the time being at least.
You might do better worrying about your own proletariat, who are all at home eating chips and watching Sky Sports, paid for by you, for the moment. From your description, I think you will be the first against the wall come the benefit cuts.
Cue Colonel Blimp's Ungrateful Colonist Speech Part II
@16 Fellow British Citizen, they are your proletariat too. Englander will be along shortly to prove it. As for benefit cuts, these will not be necessary once the revenue starts to flow back to Her Majesty's Exchequer from the South Atlantic and Antarctic exploitations. Once you've got them up and running for us that is.
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According to the Globe manazine, USA, Prince Harry met his “granny”
on June 12 to announce he does not want to be a “prince” anymore and planning to reside in the USA southwest, problably, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on about 2014 when he receives $14 millons dollars inherited from his mother Diana Spencer.
As you all can see, there is no fun in England!
“Falklands Census: no growth, population aging”
“It also shows that the population over 65 has grown by 14 percent, while the number of children has remained the same, frustrating islanders who want their community to grow large enough to be self-sustaining”
Let's encourage this poor sheep lover Brits in Argentina :-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j3okb3kuts
You seem to think we figure on keeping all of the oil revenue ourselves. That couldn't be further from the truth. We long for the day when we can start paying back the UK for the effort it has put into our security over the years and some.
You really are just about the lowest of the low on here. I find it hard to accept that you are what you intimate you are. If you are, I've never met another one with such a bitter attitude as you. I've dealt with every CBFI/CBFSAI down through several layers of ranks to your everyday squaddies since the mid-90s when I started in the field of work I'm in now. Never have I spoken to one with your attitude. My best man is now a brig, I know a couple of generals personally and very well, I have countless still-serving and recently retired friends who were/ are senior NCOs and officers. None of them say the short of shit you do. And trust me when I tell you that most of them tell me exactly how they see it without beating around the bush.
They only post to shit-stir so I wouldn't take them seriously at all... Dover often doesnt even make any sense: some of his posts are almost completely random sound-bytes strung together in a bot-like fashion.... which pretty much condemns hiss/her postings as being paid-for spam.
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“Profiteering on stolen reources.”
OK. Let's look at that statement shall we?
The Falklanders are the only People to have lived in the Falklands. RIght or wrong regardless, nobody else lived there and there were no indiigenous inhabitants.
So who did they steal from?
Meanwhile: in the USA everybody profiteered off the indigenous North American Indians....
Meanwhile: in South America everybody profiteered off the indigenous South American Indians.....
So, returning to your “statement”... erm... yeah.... not really standing up to the test of simple Logic and Elementary level History is it?
at least our sheep qualified at the [bahh]
lol..
blanqueo - Mean anything to you? It should it was offical government policy for years. For those who dont speak Spanish it means whitewashing.
This audio file is about 3 minutes long and highlights the hypocricy of the Argentine government. www.thefifthcolumn.co.uk/the-agitator/michael-buerk-on-argentina%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98breathtaking-hypocrisy%e2%80%99/
Sussie prefers the casinos and fast money of Vegas LOL
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Not that I'm paranoid or anything, but an idle hour and a geeky fascination with Excel provides some interesting insight into people's bedtimes.
Since 7th September, 169 posters have posted 1565 posts on the most recent 20 threads. (each sock puppet counts separately).
Out of these 169 posters pretty much everybody seems to take a nocturnal break, with 5 exceptions who post throughout a complete 24-hour cycle.
Two of the 5 Stakhanovites are Truth Telling Troll and St. John.
The other three are British_Kirchnerite, Think, and Doveoverdover. The latter two in particular have a remarkably similar posting pattern.
Proves nothing, but I'm just saying.
You must of been seriously bored. Either way cheers for the information.
Very enlightening observation, Hans.
Thank you.
Please do not qualify your posts with “just saying”, it's a very valid point.
Does the data show wether Think and doveoverdover reply to each others post. We could have a case of multipersonality disorder lol.
I go to bed regularly on time and have 8 hours sleep. The one exception was recently when my dog got me up for an upset tummy. Think on the other hand has a medical problem which seems to keep him up.
We also express diametrically opposing views over sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. We do, however, share a view that the Falkland Islands is a colony no matter what we Brits care to call it this decade. We also agree that those British Citizens who hold Falkland Island status also hold a veto that would be available should there ever be a desire by UK to negotiate with Argentina on this issue. We share a wider understanding of why that veto will not be required in our lifetimes. We are not the same person.
Back to watching FOGL.....
“Think on the other hand has a medical problem which seems to keep him up”.
Nothing to do with your arse I hope.
What a load of drivel - weak !!!
Arses seem to keep Sussie 2012 “up”, too!
LOL
Sussie is my friend and no longer responding to the UK team comments.
The are more interesting things to do. She instructed Mercopress to block all comments. The british needs to grow up, they act worst than children!
Good Bye!
How many names is that now Sussie?
“@ 35
Sussie is my friend and no longer responding to the UK team comments.
The are more interesting things to do. She instructed Mercopress to block all comments.
Good Bye!”
and... THE BRITS WIN, AGAIN !!! WELL DONE, BRITS!!!!
LOL LOL LOL !!
Rule Britannia, Britannia Rule the Web!
Discuss!!
If they were going to let in more people, it might be an idea to create a new settlement somewhere else on the islands and leave Stanley as it is.
Are you serious?
I cannot imagine an English making rods in the Islands for you.
As soon if ever you get a drop of oil coming out the oils companies will populate the Islands with Malaysians or Vietnamese as they always do.
They are cheap to hire, they do not complain, they don’t ask for benefits, they are easy to fire and if something goes wrong none claim for them.
If you don’t believe me put and ad saying “we look for British nationals workers to make road and work in the construction sector in F@kcland”.
If you got 1 reply call me please...
As soon the guy realises where it is and see the photos of your shantytown houses he will kill him self before going there to die from sadness and bore.
A bit like the “sadness and bore” everyone gets from reading your posts.
what a sad unhappy man you must be!
Copland is a troll, just like Dunny Burgers.
“discuss” - what a joke!
The last few posts are a 'dog & pony show' between two trolls
I'm sure that, for example, 5000 people coming in at once to service the oil industry would create a lot of local friction in the first instance. I could be wrong...
Christ! You've got some weird people on this board haven't you? Are these Argtards?
Sep 14th, 2012 - 11:59 am
“I cannot imagine an English making rods in the Islands for you.”
Is Copland a fisherman?
Is this a new industry in FI?
What sort of rods are they making, fly or casting?
Too many unknowns, Danny, please enlighten us!!!!
Also, Mr BergerBaps, what a wonderful of people to endure themselves to you and your fellow Argentines by referring to the Falklands as the F*cklands. From now on I will refer to Argentina as Arseholetina. Because, lets face it, being an arsehole is a quality that Argentines should be proud of.
Sep 14th, 2012 - 01:50 pm
Glad to know that you are one of us!!!
I think the bergger is a silly bugger, and wouldn't know a split cane from fibre glass!!!
As the News of the World used to say “All Human Life is There” (some of it fairly sub-human as well ;-)=). Yes we do get some weird posts at times - I was just trying to figure out Dany's rods
BTW caught my first conger last weekend - a tiddler at 24lbs. Caught two more after that of similar size.
guess either you or simon68 are from either Sidmouth or manchester.
Know Sidmouth well, about 25 miles from here and I was born in liverpool and regularly use to go to Belle Vue speedway in Manchester.
I reckon our Berger friend comes from junin de los andes in the neuquen province of Argieland! Amazing what you can find out on the net isn't it?
Hey!.... you..... all rubbish bloody english arse, you don't win nothing,
don't you read the news:
Arizona Republic 1/14/12: Mideast unrest grows: all USA embassies on alert.
Get your english arse ready back to the Middle East to protect SussieUS from any attack in the USA!
lol
pinterest.com/navylookout/astute-class-submarines/
British power….
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Argentine toys .
www.sainsburys.co.uk/sol/shop/toys_and_nursery/baby_and_preschool/all_baby_preschool/123536374_captain_bath_boat.html?esrc=become&med=cse
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and in Pullitzer winner The Seattle Times seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019133637_apltfalklandislandscensus.html
On the other hand, less people means more dough per capita, so it's not all bad news, or are they?
Is true. The UK military men have to protect the USA and Argentina from the Middle East possible embassies attacks!
Are you ready or you prefer Mercopress “news”?
one should not be too keen to jump ship.
british polititions are notorousley good, at cutting the cord to save money.
just a thought .
“@ 38 Troy Tempest
Hey!.... you..... all rubbish bloody english arse, you don't win nothing,
don't you read the news:
Arizona Republic 1/14/12: Mideast unrest grows: all USA embassies on alert.
Get your english arse ready back to the Middle East to protect SussieUS from any attack in the USA!”
Yay, BRITS WIN AGAIN !!!
CFK and LA CAMPORA STINK!!
LOL
Sussie, you embarrassed yourself and La Campora, with your rants about your “Papi”, wanting it up the arse, and drinking furniture polish!!
Then you embarrassed Argentina and all it's people by threatening children!
You are NOT “living in the USA”, no matter how much you want to.
La Campora is disgusted by you and laughs at you.
CFK is falling, and when she does, La Campora will kick you into the gutter first, to save themselves from the mob.
The people will hunt you down like the scared animal you are.
Are you scared of us, Sussie? You should be!
CFK does not know you, and does not care about you. She would step on your face to save herself LOL LOL
you are worth nothing.
You are worthless !
taking Troy Tempest name...
then you complaint about me having different posts....
You gave me the idea
and now I keep play the same game ...and you don't like my coments! lol
Kind offer, but it would be immoral and unwise to accept without negotiating with Cristina...
Dear Simon have you ever been in England? I guess not
Hardly you will find any English to work in shitty jobs.
Any English here in really despair to work for Islander 8000 miles away for 5k/15k salary to may road for them?
Or do you prefer a salary of 20k pesos (4k dollars at month) as a manager in Argentina company with a lot of after offices and cute girls?
Lets see answers...
CFK does not negotiate. CFK demands.
And ends up with a big fat zero.
Still at least her son will end up making money as a wildlife attraction-an Elephant seal on a beach.
”Or do you prefer a salary of 20k pesos (4k dollars at month) as a manager in Argentina company with a lot of after offices and cute girls?
20K Pesos ?? LOL
Even at your estimate of $4,000 per month, that's crap wages for a manager!!
The office “coffee boy” gets more than that in North America.
With your 27% inflation, the CFK government printing off so many pesos, that pay will be less than $3K by next year.
“cute girls” is about all you have to offer.
Most of them want to marry a UK or EU or US citizen, or ANYONE that can get them out of Argentina.
What has the Argentine government did with a top class German sub bought 16 years ago to be locally replicated under German surveillance?
You guessed right: NOTHING!
Now's a heap of rusty steel rings and scattered engine parts, and its original technology is today well behind that of an intelligent mobile.
Bathtub toys do better :-(
I don’t understand what do you understand by “manager” because in England manager has a broad signify.
For example someone in charge to fill a form and give you a key in a rent a car in UK is called “manager”.
Anyway 20k pesos at month (4000 USD per month) just to be sat in an office is not bad, you would strangle to get a job like this in England.
In US manager salaries range from 33k to 50k USD.
I guess you are confused with CEOs
There is no word that you can post that offends me! Look the type of work you do for a living....
Don't you know the rubbish bloody english people? They don't worth nothing.
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