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 ECCENTRIC OFFICIAL STATISTICS 9 1

Aggregate Males Females Children"

Occupation tables, - - 55,792 47,905 7,887 279

Manufacturing tables, - 23,876 21,447 I>7I5 7i4

The manufacturing statistics representing the average number of employes and the occupation statistics the total number, if we accept them as at all accurate, we must conclude that employes of manufactur- ing establishments in this state were unemployed considerably more than one-half the time. Yet the statistics of unemployment show an almost insignificant amount of lost time, being for the manufacturing and mechanical industries as follows :

I to 3 months 4 to 6 months 7 to 12 months

Males, - - - 5,371 4,820 1,099

Females, - - 355 264 141

If we adopt the method of Colonel Wright in the Forum and take the mean of each period as representing the average, this unemploy- ment would be an equivalent of not more than 3,600 males and less than 270 females unemployed for twelve months.

For the state of Kansas the returns are as follows :

Aggregate

Males

Females

Children

Occupation tables,

54,674

46,103

8,571

138

Manufacturing tables.

- 32,843

29.157

2,805

881

1 to 3 months

4 to 6 months

7 to 12 months

4,874

5.893

1,816

366

494

207

The report of unemployment for this state shows also an insignifi- cant amount of lost time, being as follows :

Males, Females

In New York state, where the returns of manufactures are principally those of special agents, we have a reverse of this showing, except as to children, the manufacturing statistics indicating a larger number of employes than the tables of occupation. The returns for New York state are as follows :

Aggregate Males Females Children

Occupation tables, - 828,216 634,430 193,786 13,739 Manufacturing tables, 850,084 633,389 204,432 12,263

It should be remembered that children in the occupation tables include those from ten to fourteen years of age, while the figures of the manufacturing tables represent the number of children, boys under

' Children in the occupation tables include those from ten to fourteen years of age nearest birthday; in the manufacturing tables males to sixteen and females to fifteen years of age.