Wages and salaries cost Scottish industry around 34 billion, and accounted for over 25 per cent of the total annual running costs. Scottish Executive Growth in consumer expenditure in Scotland has outstripped economic growth, increasing by an average annual rate of 2.6 per cent between 1990 and 1997. Exports to the rest of the UK and to the rest of the world supported 35 billion and 31 billion respectively. Different industries display varying propensities to import the materials required to produce their outputs, and it is possible to estimate the domestic content of exports by each industry by analysing the Scottish input-output tables. When considering the domestic content of Scottish exports, the total value falls to 27 billion.
Total exports is defined to be value of sales outwith Scotland.
Total domestic content of exports is defined to be value of sales outwith Scotland less total import content of all imports used in relevant production processes.