{
  "version": "0.11",
  "reviewed": "2026-11-05",
  "source": {
    "author": "J. J. Mallon",
    "chapter": "Women’s Wages in the Wage Census of 1906",
    "book": "B. L. Hutchins, Women in Modern Industry",
    "edition": "London: G. Bell & Sons, 1915",
    "locator": "Table C, p.225; method p.213; population p.215",
    "url": "https://archive.org/details/womeninmodernind00hutcrich/page/225/mode/1up",
    "status": "Mallon pp.213,215,225 visually checked; four averages cross-checked against Board of Trade 1913 pp.113–114. Original employer returns not inspected."
  },
  "population": "Women aged 18 and over working full time, reported in voluntary employer returns; United Kingdom. Not a complete population census.",
  "period": "Last pay-week of September 1906, except preserved food/jam/pickle/sauce: an ordinary week in the 1906 season (Board of Trade 1913, p.114 footnote).",
  "bands": [
    "Under 10s",
    "10s and under 15s",
    "15s and over"
  ],
  "unit": "Percent of reported women in each industry; average weekly earnings stored in historical pence. 12d = 1s.",
  "limits": [
    "Not annual income or household income.",
    "Not wages of cooks, Guild members or nineteenth-century workers.",
    "Four selected food manufacturing groups, not the complete Table C.",
    "Industry sample sizes not transcribed; do not combine percentages across groups or infer worker counts."
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "industry": "Cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery",
      "percentages": [
        40.5,
        37.2,
        22.3
      ],
      "averagePence": 141,
      "period": "Last pay-week of September 1906"
    },
    {
      "industry": "Preserved food, jam, pickle, sauce, etc.",
      "percentages": [
        44.4,
        43.0,
        12.6
      ],
      "averagePence": 131,
      "period": "Ordinary week in the season of 1906"
    },
    {
      "industry": "Biscuit making",
      "percentages": [
        33.6,
        53.5,
        12.9
      ],
      "averagePence": 130,
      "period": "Last pay-week of September 1906"
    },
    {
      "industry": "Aerated water, etc., manufacture and general bottling",
      "percentages": [
        54.8,
        42.7,
        2.5
      ],
      "averagePence": 115,
      "period": "Last pay-week of September 1906"
    }
  ],
  "officialCrosscheck": {
    "author": "Great Britain, Board of Trade",
    "title": "Sixteenth Abstract of Labour Statistics of the United Kingdom",
    "edition": "1913 official abstract; University of Southampton Library digitisation",
    "locator": "Printed pp.113–114 / PDF139–140; p.114 footnote",
    "url": "https://escoe-website.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/25203704/16th-Abstract-of-Labour-Statistics-1913.pdf",
    "inspected": "Both page images, 2026-11-05",
    "finding": "Four full-time women’s averages agree with Mallon’s selected rows; p.114 specifies a seasonal week for preserved food/jam/pickle/sauce.",
    "limit": "Does not independently verify employer returns or the earnings-band percentages.",
    "next": "Verification scope: Earnings and Hours Inquiry Part VIII and its industry-specific returns."
  }
}