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(2) WoMEN

Department

Total
number
returned

Modal
Jroup of
Monthly
Karnings

Number of
workers in
the Modal
group

Percentage
of the
number in
the group
to number
returned

Ra.

Winding hi
Ring Spinning  ..
Reeling wn
Mixing and Waste. . ’
Slubbing, Inter and Roving

4,601
3,140
2,097
540
EOR

16 to 18
18 to 20
14 to 16
13 to 14
18 to 20

551
"87
18
a’,

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34:62
15-16
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b3H4

130. The figures in the above table are self-explanatory and do not
call for any eomment. If the main tables are considered from the viewpoint
 of workers in all departments it will be seen that the point
of greatest density for male operatives is in the group Rs. 24 to Rs. 26.
The modal average works out at about Rs. 25. The number of male
workers who earned between Rs, 22 and Rs. 30 amounted to 12,507 or
about 33 per cent. of the number returned whereas the number who
earned over Rs. 50 per month amounted to 7,471 or 19-47 per cent. of
the total number of men returned. The mode in the case of
women workers lies in the group Rs. 18 to Rs. 20 and the modal average
works out at inside of Rs 19. The number of women who earned
between Rs. 16 and Rs. 22 amounted to 5,016 or over 40 per cent. of the
total number of women returned. 306 or only 2:52 per cent.
sarned over Rs. 30 per month. With regard to all workers, both male
and female, in Bombay, the position of greatest density again lies in the
same group as for men; viz., Rs. 24 to RBs. 26 and the modal average is
also very near to that for men alone and amounts to about Rs. 25. It
does not appear to be necessary to burden this section with numbers of
workers in different groups and the percentages which they bear to the
totals returned. This could be done ad infinitum and anybody
interested in ascertaining the frequency for any particular group could
easily do so by summing the respective figures required from the main
tables.

(2) Ahmedabad
131. Tt will have been noticed that a departure has been made in
the manner of presenting the results for frequencies of earnings from
the method followed in the earlier sections of this Chapter where
the figures for average earnings for each of the occupations dealt
with in each of the three centres covered by the Enquiry were
given side by side in a comparative form. This was due to the
impracticability of compiling frequency tables for Ahmedabad on the
basis of monthly earnings owing to reasons already dealt with. The
frequency tables for Ahmedabad have, therefore, been framed on the
basis of dailv earnings. Four separate tables have been prepared :