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manufacturing and mechanical pursuits; trade and transportation are distinct from each other. The headings as here used are:

1. Agricultural pursuits.

2. Domestic and personal service.

3. Manufacturing and mechanical pursuits.

4. Mining (including quarrying).

5. General labor.

6. Professional service.

7. Trade.

8. Transportation.

9. Fishing.

The term "domestic and personal service" includes besides domestic servants certain classes of persons not professional who serve the general public, such as policemen, city firemen, and employees at places of amusement.

Number of females 16 years of age or over in each specified industry, by general nativity and race of individual: Study of households. Table 10.—This table is similar to Table 9, relating to males.

Number of male employees 18 years of age or over earning each specified amount per week, by general nativity and race: Study of employees. Table 11.-Employees are here classified according to the amount of their earnings. In some industries earnings are reported by the week, and in others by the day. Where employment is on the time basis the data are for "rate of pay;" where employment is on the piece basis the data are for "earnings."

Number of male employees 14 and under 18 years of age earning each specified amount per day, by general nativity and race: Study of employees. Table 12.-This table is similar to Table 11, relating to earnings of males 18 years of age or over. In practically all industries the number of employees under 14 was too small for tabulation. Number of male heads of families earning each specified amount per year, by general nativity and race of individual: Study of households. Table 13. This table forms a part of the study of family incomes. The information relative to income was secured for the year ending at the time of the agent's visit.

In the "selection of families" for the compilation of data concerning family income, the following classes were omitted:

1. Families established less than one year.

2. Families living two or more per household under complicated financial arrangements, so that exact income from boarders or other sources within the household are uncertain.

3. Families with earnings or contributions representing entire earnings of members who are profit earners or whose net earnings are for any other reason uncertain. That part of the income in this study represented by earnings is net.

Practically all of the heads of families included in this table are also heads of households. They are here classified according to the amount of their earnings for the year.

Yearly earnings (approximate) of males 18 years of age or over, by general nativity and race of individual: Study of households. Table 14.-Male wage earners are here classified according to the amount of their earnings for the year ending at the time of the agent's visit. Persons who receive board and lodging in addition to a money wage and persons who receive tips or other perquisites over and above a stipulated wage are not included in this table.

Yearly earnings (approximate) of females 18 years of age or over, by general nativity and race of individual: Study of households' Table 15.-This table is similar to Table 14, which relates to earnings of males.

Amount of family income per year, by general nativity and race of head of family: Study of households. Table 16.-The families included in this table are the same as in Table 13. These families are here classified according to the amount of total income for the year from all sources. Table 17 shows the sources of this income. Income from "boarders or lodgers" and in some cases from "other sources' is gross.

Number of families having an income within the year from husband, wife, children, boarders or lodgers, and other sources, by general nativity and race of head of family: Study of households. Table 17.-The families included in this table are the same as in Table 13. The number of families with income from earnings of husband, the number with income from earnings of wife, etc., are shown here. The terms "husband" and "wife" include the widowed, divorced, and deserted. The principal items under "Other sources are (1) receipts from investments, which, in the great majority of cases, are in the form of rentals, and (2) contributions of friends or relatives, who pay either more or less than the rates of boarders or lodgers. Attention is called to the fact that the family may have had income from some source, for example, from boarders or lodgers, within the year, but not at the time the schedule was taken.

Source of family income in detail, by general nativity and race of head of family: Study of households. Table 18.-The families included in this table are the same as in Table 13. They are classified here according to the source or combination of sources upon which the family has been wholly dependent for income within the year ending with the taking of the schedule. The four items which make up all incomes except those entered in the last column of this table are earnings of husband, earnings of wife, contributions of children, and payments of boarders or lodgers. It will be noted that all families deriving their entire income from husband, wife, and children have a net income, and that all incomes including the payments of boarders or lodgers are gross; also that all families having any part of their income from money invested appear in the last column of this table.

Months worked during the past year by persons 16 years of age or over employed away from home, by sex and by general nativity and race of individual: Study of households. Table 19.-Members of households of working age who have been employed outside of the home within the year ending with the taking of the schedule are here classified according to whether they have worked under three months, three and under four months, four and under five months, etc. For the purposes of this table, all cases of part time employment have been reduced to a full time basis; for example, an employee who has worked seven months on half time is counted as having worked three and one-half months. The data are shown for males and females separately.

Number and class of households, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 20.-All households are here divided into "Family households," or households where a family

is present, and "Group households," or households composed of a group of persons, no family included. Family households are further classified as being with or without boarders or lodgers. Family households with neither boarders nor lodgers are subdivided into those consisting of a single family and those consisting of two or more families living in the same apartment and sharing one or more rooms. Family households with boarders or lodgers are subdivided into those who keep boarders and those who keep only lodgers. Households keeping both boarders and lodgers are here entered as households with boarders. "Boarders" are persons to whom both food and lodging are furnished.

Number of households paying each specified rent per month per apartment, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 21.-In this table appears only the renting households which report the rent paid for the unfurnished rooms which they use for living purposes. The following classes are thus excluded from this table:

1. Households which rent apartment furnished.

2. Households which pay an undivided sum for apartment and place of busi

ness.

3. Resident landlords who pay an undivided sum for the apartment they occupy and other apartments which they sublet.

4. Households which pay "ground rent."

Number of households paying each specified rent per month per room, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 22.-The households included in this table are the same as in Table 21.

Number of households paying each specified rent per month per person, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 23.-The households included in this table are the same as in Table 21.

Number of households keeping boarders and lodgers and number of boarders and lodgers, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 24. This table shows the number of households keeping boarders and the number keeping only lodgers; it also gives the total number of boarders and of lodgers. "Boarders" both sleep and eat with the household. Households which keep lodgers in addition to boarders are classified with the households keeping boarders. Among certain races it is customary to include one of the following accommodations with the nominal price of lodg ing: (1) Coffee or soup is served once a day; (2) the lodger is allowed the privilege of cooking his food on the kitchen stove; (3) the housewife buys the lodger's food, having the price charged in his account book, and prepares the food for him. Persons with such financial arrangements consider themselves lodgers and have been classified as such in this table.

Number of persons per household in apartments of each specified size, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 25.-Households are here classified according to the number of rooms which they occupy and are further classified according to the number of persons of which they are composed. Rooms used exclusively for business purposes, although connected with the apartment, are not counted in the number of rooms per apartment.

As before stated, only such persons as sleep in the apartment are considered members of the household.

Number of households occupying apartments of each specified number of rooms, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 26.-This table summarizes a part of the data of Table 25. Households are classified here according to the number of rooms they occupy.

Number of households of each specified number of persons, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 27. This table summarizes a part of the data in Table 25. Households are here classified according to the number of persons in the household.

Number of households and number of persons in apartments of each specified number of rooms, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 28.-This table summarizes part of the data in Table 25, it gives the total number of households and the total number of persons in apartments of each specified size.

Persons per room, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 29.-This table shows the number of households which average less than one person per room, one and less than two persons per room, two and less than three persons per room, etc. The table also shows the average number of persons per household and per room for all houesholds studied.

Persons per sleeping room, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 30.-This table presents the data relative to persons per sleeping room. Only rooms which are regularly used for sleeping purposes are here considered sleeping rooms. The table is similar to Table 29.

Number of households regularly sleeping in all except each specified number of rooms, by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 31. This table classifies households according to the number of rooms left for living purposes after the number of sleeping rooms has been deducted.

Literacy of male employees, by general nativity and race: Study of employees. Table 32.-This table shows the number of employees who read some language and the number who both read and write. some language.

Literacy of persons 10 years of age or over, by sex and general nativity and race of individual: Study of households. Table 33.-This table, which is concerned with members of households, is similar to Table 32, relating to employees.

Literacy of foreign-born persons 10 years of age or over, by sex, years in the United States, and race of individual: Study of households. Table 34. This table classifies foreign-born persons, male and female, according to the number of years since their first arrival in the United States. The classes are: Under five years, five to nine years, and ten years or over. The tables show under each of the three groups the number of persons who can read some language and the number who can both read and write some language.

Literacy of foreign-born persons 10 years of age or over, by sex, age at time of coming to the United States, and race of individual: Study of households. Table 35.-This table classifies foreign-born persons, male and female, according to whether they were under 14 years of

age or 14 years of age or over at the time of their first arrival in the United States and shows the number in each group who can read some language and the number who can both read and write some language. Conjugal condition of male employees, by age groups and general nativity and race: Study of employees. Table 36.-For the purposes of this table employees of each sex are divided into four age groups— 16 to 19 years, 20 to 29 years, 30 to 44 years, and 45 years or over— and are further classified according to whether they are single, married, or widowed. With the widowed are included the relatively few persons who are divorced or deserted.

Conjugal condition, by sex, age groups, and general nativity and race of individual: Study of households. Table 37.-This table, which is concerned with members of households 16 years of age or over, is similar to Table 36, relating to male employees.

Location of wives of foreign-born employees, by race of husband: Study of employees. Table 38.-This table shows the number of foreignborn married employees who report wife in the United States and the number who report wife abroad. The tabulation is by the race of the employee.

Visits abroad made by foreign-born male employees, by years in the United States, and race: Study of employees. Table 39.-Employees are here classified according to the number of years since their first arrival in the United States. The classes are: Under five years, five to nine years, and ten years or over. Under each group employees are classified according to whether they have made no visit or one, two, or three or more visits abroad.

Number of persons within each age group, by sex and by general nativity and race of head of household: Study of households. Table 40.— This table gives for all households studied the number of persons of each sex who report their ages as under 6 years, 6 to 13 years, 14 and 15 years, 16 to 19 years, 20 to 29 years, 30 to 44 years, and 45 years or over. The tabulation is by race of head of household.

Number of male employees of each age or within each age group, by sex and general nativity and race: Study of employees. Table 41.Employees are here classified according to age, by years if between 14 and 19 years of age, and by year groups, if 20 years of age or over.

Number of families owning home, renting, boarding, etc., by general nativity and race of head of family: Study of households. Table 42.This table shows for all families studied the number owning their homes, the number renting homes, the number boarding, and the number lodging. The few dependent families are included in the miscellaneous class "In other conditions."

General occupation of persons under 16 years of age, by sex, age group, and general nativity and race of individual: Study of households. Table 43.-This table shows for males, females, and totals, the number of children under 6 years of age, 6 to 13 years of age, and 13 and 14 years of age, and further shows for each age group the number of children at home, at school, and at work. The few children with employment outside of school hours are tabulated here as at school, and the few children found working through the day and attending night school are here entered as at work.

Present political condition of foreign-born male employees who have been in the United States five years or over and who were 21 years of age

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