Report on an enquiry into wages and hours of labour in the cotton mill industry, 1926

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Identifikator:: 1827868163

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-221455

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report on an enquiry into wages and hours of labour in the cotton mill industry, 1926

Place of publication:: Bombay

Publisher:: Government Central Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: III, 172 S.; zahlr. Tab

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. Earnings

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wre »y formula for ascertaining the statistically accurate modal average, but where the clags interval is large it is often desirable to locate the mode within the limits of the class. The mode is useful in cases where it is desirable to eliminate extreme variations as it is the type that, to the ordinary mind, seems best to represent the group. But the dis- advantages of a mode as a type are, that in many cases no single well- defined type actually exists, and it is not at all useful if it is desirable to give any weight to extreme variations. 129. An examination of the frequency tables will show that the rate of progression to the point of greatest density is, in most departments, fairly uniform in character and that the progression to the higher groups after the posifion of greatest density has been passed is on a gradually diminishing basis. There are cases, however, where there may be two or more points of greatest density, but, on the other hand, it is a statistical dogma that if the mode cannot be located by any arithmetical process it cannot be accurately determined by any method. In considering the frequency tables as they stand, the limits adjacent to the point of greatest density would represent the limits within which the earnings of the most predominant occupation in the department would fall, the extremes covering the higher paid operatives such as jobbers and those workers who have only put in a few days work in the month. In view of the inclusion of several occupations in a department it would not be of much utility to work out modal averages for each and every department. The points of greatest density could in the majority of the cases be placed at once even by a layman who knows nothing of statistical methods and practice and he would not go far wrong. Modal groups have, however, been ascertained for the more numerically important departments and the results are presented in the following two tables for male and female workers respectively — Predominant Modal Classes for Monthly Earnings in Selected Departments in Bombay (1) Mex Department or Occupation Weavers . Ring Spinning .. . Slubbing, Inter and Roving Carding Room .. Blow Room _~ Drawing Frame .. 23 Drawing-In ve .. Cloth Folding . : Weaving, General Total number returned 1,758 8,872 2,842 1.318 883 848 820 1,482 ROM Modal Group of Monthly Earnings ns. 30 to 55 24 to 26 30 to 32 24 to 26 24 to 26 34 to 36 24 to 26 24 to 26 120 to 130 Number of workers in the Modal OTOND 2,204 1,704 343 268 279 159 3 320 143 Percentage of ee umber in the group 0 number retiirned 18-74 19-21 12-07 20-33 31-60 18-75 8:90 21-59 15°04

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