Standard of living among workingmen's families in New York city, . » 1 * *! U i I M \ \ S \. N. \ ^ Diagram 2.—Number of families in each income-group. (See Table i, page 44.) a day. The classification employed follows that of the TwelfthCensus of the United States, and in every case the occupationspecified is that of the father. Of the 391 men included in thetables, laborers (38), teamsters (30), and garment-workers (66), 40 MATERIAL USED AND METHOD OF TREATMENT make up one-third. The following table shows the apportionmentamong the main groups of the Census Bureaus classification: Profession
Standard of living among workingmen's families in New York city, . » 1 * *! U i I M \ \ S \. N. \ ^ Diagram 2.—Number of families in each income-group. (See Table i, page 44.) a day. The classification employed follows that of the TwelfthCensus of the United States, and in every case the occupationspecified is that of the father. Of the 391 men included in thetables, laborers (38), teamsters (30), and garment-workers (66), 40 MATERIAL USED AND METHOD OF TREATMENT make up one-third. The following table shows the apportionmentamong the main groups of the Census Bureaus classification: Professional service 6 Domestic and personal service 96 Trade 47 Transportation 53 Manufactures and mechanical trades 189 39i. In the tables which follow, the families are classified by occu-pation of the father and by income. In Tables 3 and 6 (pages 46,49), the classification is on the basis of the total income of the family;in Table 4 (page 47), on the basis of the earnings of the father. Itmust not be supposed that the range of annual earnings in the lowerpaid occupations is as great as in the range of incomes of the familiesof the men thus employed, because it is especially these low in-comes from fathers earnings that need to be supplemented by rentfrom lodgers and the earnings of mother and children. 4i THE STANDARD OF LIVING The number of persons per family ranges from 4 to 6; 142of the 318 families consist of 5 persons, 80 of 4, 96 of 6. Theaverage number is 5, and the average for each income-group iseither 5, , or (Table 6A, page 53.) In the statistical treatment of the material discussed, theobject has been, first, to bring out as fully as practicable thefacts, considered collectively; and,
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