The Sample

This Survey was directed especially to six main and two subsidiary occupations followed by women. Interviewing was therefore concentrated on those groups and no attempt was made to secure national representation.

At the same time interviewing was dispersed over the country so that good representation was made of the South, Midlands and the North. The plan of the Survey which follows was, in fact, exceeded.

Distribution of Interviews by Town and Occupation

Regional Distribution of Interviews in Occupation Groups

Appendix I (Continued)

Regional Distribution of Interviews by Age Groups

Age Groups in the Occupation Categories Interviewed

Appendix I (Cont.)

This dispersion of calls should be compared with an estimate made from the most recent figures from the Registrar General.

It will be seen that there is a great disparity between the Registrar General’s age grouping of all women and the age grouping in the sample of women interviewed.

At the request of the Board of Trade interviewing was concentrated in six main occupation categories and two subsidiary categories. An attempt was made to allocate representative age-group calls in those occupations.

Since a minimum number of calls was required in the occupation categories, it was obvious that the largest occupation grouping amongst women, i.e. Housewives, would, on the completed sample, be underweighted considerably. This occupation grouping has the largest proportion of women over 40, and consequently the completed sample which underweights Housewife calls, underweights the over 40 calls.

Social Grouping

For the main part calls were made on women at places of work and only in the case of Housewives was an attempt made to disperse calls according to Social stratification.