Per capita earnings given in Table 4 must not be confused with full-time weekly rates of wages. They are actual per capita weekly earnings, computed by dividing the total number of employees reported into the total amount of pay roll in the week reported, and the "number of employees" includes all persons who worked any part of the period reported-that is, part-time workers as well as full-time workers. TABLE 4.-PER CAPITA WEEKLY EARNINGS IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN NOVEMBER, 1931, AND COMPARISON WITH OCTOBER, 1931, AND NOVEMBER, 1930 TABLE 4.-PER CAPITA WEEKLY EARNINGS IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN NOVEMBER, 1931, AND COMPARISON WITH OCTOBER, 1931, AND NOVEMBER, 1930— Continued. Index Numbers of Employment and Pay-Roll Totals in Manufacturing Industries TABLE 5 shows the general indexes of employment and pay-roll totals in manufacturing industries, by months, from January, 1923, to November, 1931, together with the average indexes for each of the years 1923 to 1930, inclusive, and for the period January to November, 1931, inclusive. In computing these general indexes of employment and earnings the index numbers of the separate industries are weighted according to the relative importance of the 54 industries included. TABLE 5.-GENERAL INDEXES OF EMPLOYMENT AND PAY-ROLL TOTALS IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, JANUARY, 1923, TO NOVEMBER, 1931 Av.. 108. 8 98. 2 99, 2100, 0 96, 4 93,8 97,5 83, 7171, 4104,3 94.6 97, 7100, 0 96,5 94, 5100, 4 80, 3161, 1 1Average for 11 months. Time Worked in Manufacturing Industries in November, 1931 REPORTS as to working time of employees in November were received from 12,587 establishments in 64 manufacturing industries. Two per cent of the establishments were idle, while employees in 49 per cent were working full time and employees in 49 per cent were working part time. Employees in the establishments in operation in November were working an average of 87 per cent of full time, this percentage showing a decrease of 1 per cent from the percentage reported in October. Employees in the 49 per cent of the establishments working part time in November were averaging 73 per cent of full-time operation. The following two charts represent the 54 separate industries combined and show the course of pay-roll totals as well as the course of employment for each month of the years 1926 to 1930, and January to November, 1931, inclusive. |