Notes and tables for a study on "Dependence and Wages"

These records document the preparation of a report on the relationship between wages and dependence on charity. The Charity Organization Society, the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, the United Hebrew Charities (all in Manhattan) and the Brooklyn Bureau of Charities transcribed case file records created from January through March 1914 onto cards (Form 11; no original cards extant) supplied by the commission.

This series contains the following records created using those data cards: manuscript draft of "Dependence and Wages" discussing method of investigation and significant data in the statistical tables drawn from the data cards; rough notes outlining variables and data on the statisical tables; and statistical tables (drafts and final manuscripts) providing information on causes of destitution, wages by occupation of principal wage earner when male and when female, size of family by number of wage earners per family (eg. number of 3-person families with 1 wage earner, 2 wage earners, etc.) when principal wage earner is male and when female, weekly income per family by number of wage earners per family when principal wage earner is male and when female, weekly income per family by number of family members when principal wage earner is male and when female, and weekly income per family by number of family members when family takes in boarders or lodgers when principal wage earner is male and when female. Apparently no final report was produced, and the study was not discussed in the commission's published reports.

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