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86 STATISTICS OP LABOR AND INDUSTRIES.beginning aud quitting work; the time allowed for meals, andprovision made for seats when employed or unemployed.Table 2, Summary 3.—Wages and regularity of employment.The data here are tabulated under subdivisions of occupations:Periodic wage ratee, full time and yearly earnings; the averagenumber of days employed, and number of individuals out ofwork on account of sickness or want of employment, with theaverage number of days lost. The wages are given by rangeand averages, as well as classified by number of individualsreceiving the same.Table #, Summary 1.—Conjugal and home conditions. Tabulatedunder industries, and showing the number of individuals,single, married or widowed, who own homes, pay rent, board orlive with parents or others, and those who assist others from theirwages.Table 0, Summary #.—Rent and board. Tabulated by industries.The average and classified amounts paid for rent andboard per month and week respectively.Table &, Summary 3.—Income, expenditures and savings, byindustries. The average amount of iucome and outlay audexpenditures for subsistence, clothing and miscellaneous items;the number of individuals having a surplus or debts; the numberreporting savings and the amount thereof, and the classifiedtotal amounts of expenditures. It is not pretended that themoney items, so far as income and expenditures are concerned,are correct to the cent, for the case is extremely rare, even withadult men, where an exact sum of wages is kept throughout theyear, and rarer still of an annual budget of expenses. The basicreturns were as accurate as under the circumstances could becollated, and the averages reduce the possible slight errors to aminimum.As already noted, this inquiry takes in 3,877 working women,of whom 3,119 were engaged in manufacturing and mechanicalindustry, mostly factory workers. The balance, 758, comprised