INFORMATION ON FARMERS‘ INCOMES: DATA FROM INLAND REVENUE SOURCES
介绍英国税务局个人收入调查中农业子集数据，分析1978/79年农民收入来源与分布，发现非农收入占比重要，且农民在高收入群体中比例偏高。
The most commonly quoted information on UK farm incomes comes from the Farm Management Survey. However, this Survey does not embrace the income farmers receive from non‐farm sources, and its coverage of very small farms is not good. For many income studies, an attractive alternative source of information, newly available, is the agricultural and horticultural subsets of the Survey of Personal Incomes, conducted annually by the Inland Revenue. This paper comments on the SPI results for 1978/79. While there are reservations about the classification employed and the income concept adopted, the SPI is nevertheless an important new source of data, covering income received by farming couples and individuals from self‐employment, from employment and from investment. Overall, earned income constituted 83 per cent of the Total Income of farmers in 1978/79; business profits (including those of wives) formed less than two‐thirds of the total, illustrating the importance of including non‐farm sources in any assessment of farmers' income position. When classified by income size, agricultural incomes are seen to figure disproportionately high among the upper income groups of the community. The earnings of farmers' wives are discussed and the SPI income‐distribution compared with that from the FMS. Ways of exploiting this newly‐available data source are explored.