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THE statesman's YEAR BOOK, 1913

UNITED KINGDOM.

FINAL RESULTS OF CENSUS OF PRODUCTION, 1907.

The chief particulars furnished to the Census of Production Office are summarised as follows : —

Group of Trades.

Mines and Quarries.

Iron and Steel, Engin eering and Shipbuild ing Trades. ..

Metal Trades, other than Iron and Steel. .

Textile Trades. ..

Clothing Trades. .

Food, Drink, and To bacco Trades. .

Chemical and Allied Trades

Paper, Printing, Sta- tionery, and Allied Trades

Leather, Canvas, and Indiarubber Trades.

Timber Trades ....

Clay, Stone, Building, and Contracting Trades

Miscellaneous Trades.

Public Utility Services

Factory Owners— Power only

Total U.K. .. .

England and Wales. .

Scotland

Ireland

Gross Output,

Selling

Value or

Value of

Work

Done.

(1)

Thous. £ 148,026

375,196

93,465 333,661 107,983

287,446

75,032

61,308

34,928 46.390

116,692

8,288

77,051

1,765,366

Materials Used.

Cost,

(2)

Work Given Out.

Amount

Paid

to other

Firms.

(3)

Thous. £ 1 Thous. & 28,495

1,490,749

207.840

66,' 7 77

212,224

81,.341

235,038

58,185

197,734

53,466

26,611

26,229 24,780

49,679

3,778

30,786

9,890

231

4,189 2,125

198

1,047

81 166

6,557

67

325

1,028,346

24,885

Excess of

Col. (1)

over Cols

(2) & (3).

(4)

Net Average

Output. Number of Persons

868,319

116,937

43,090

19,436

4,539

910

Thous. £ 119,531

153,082

11,893 94,334 47,673

89,514

21,557

33,650

8,618 21,444

60,456

4,443

45,940

712,135

Employed (excluding

Out- workers).

(5)

602,994 8,364 22,777

Horse- power of

Engines

at Mines,

Factories,

&c.

(<3)

Thous. Thous. h. p. 965 2,495

1,539

114

1,253

756

464

128

826

85 239

725

47

343

6,985

5,808 886 291

2,437

£4 1,988

85

380 215

238

55 174

433

9

2,060

102

10,755

9,098

1,398

259

The number of outworkers (excluded from col. (5) of the table) was about 100,000, in- cluding jirobably some duplicates.

The table excludes the output of Agriculture and Fisheries, the value of which was about 2OO,OOO,O0OZ. for Agriculture (employing about 2,820,000 persons, including occupiers), and 12,000,000/.. for Fisheries (employing about 110,000 persons).

The gross output given in the above table involves a large amount of duplication. It is estimated that the " factory value," or value at the works, of the outjiut in 1907, free from all duplication, was about 1,440 millions sterling (including Cu.stoms and Excise duties), and the value after adding the estimated cost of transport and distribution was from 1,782 to 1,917 millions sterling, of which 1,318 to 1,453 millions represented goods sold for consumption in the United Kingdom, and the rest represented export goods. If the goods imported not for further manufacture but for consumption be added, the total cost to con- sumers of the goods consumed (including buildings, &c.) in the United Kingdom in 1907 is estimated to lie between 1,603 and 1,833 millions sterling.