DIFFICULTIES IN TABULATION OWING TO VARIATIONS IN METHODS 
oF Wace PAYMENTS 
30. It has already been stated above that all the nineteen mills 
covered by the Census in Bombay City worked uniformly for 27 days 
n the selected month, i.e, July 1926. It was possible, therefore, 
to compile accurate statistics for workers in the Bombay mills under the 
following heads. 
(1) Average number of days worked, where the results uniformly relate 
to 4 possible 27 and permit, by deducting the figures for the average 
aumber of days worked by each occupation group from a possible 27, 
of arriving at accurate percentages for absenteeism for each group of 
workers without the necessity of undertaking separate calculations on 
she basis of a proportionate comparison with the total number of man- 
jays that could be worked by each group; 
(2) Average Daily Earnings ascertained by dividing the total of the 
sarnings of all the individuals included in a particular group by the 
wegregate of the numbers of days actually worked ; 
(3) Average Monthly Earnings ascertained by dividing the total 
sarnings of all the individuals included in a particular group by the total 
number included : 
(4) Average Monthly Earnings of Full Time Workers ascertained by 
lividing the total earnings of only those workers who worked uniformly 
for 27 days without anv absence bv the number of such workers in each 
yroup ; 
(5) Frequency of Monthly Earnings ; and 
(6) Frequency of Attendance according to the number of days 
worked by operatives in various departments in relation to a possible 
27 which permits ascertaining percentages of the number of workers 
who worked full time to the total number of workers returned and for 
those who worked for different numbers of days during the month. 
31. In the case of the two mills covered by the Enquiry at Sholapur 
one mill worked in July 1926 for 27 days and the other for 26 days. It 
is obvious that no accurate-percentages for average absenteeism could 
be arrived at from the figures for the average number of days worked per 
month. The only accurate method of ascertaining correct figures for 
percentage absenteeism would be to take the percentage proportion of 
the difference between the possible man-days for each group and the 
actual number of days worked by the individuals in that group to the 
possible man-days for the group. This Method has been followed 
'n working out the figures for percentage absenteeism for different 
departments as presented in Tables VII, VIII and IX, but similar 
figures have not been worked out for different occupations except 
for weavers. 
32. In the case of Ahmedabad no figures have been worked out for 
the average number of days worked by each occupation group, not 
because such ficures could not be worked out. but because the figures