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RG 23/12 - Clothing Needs in Fifteen Occupational Groups: An Enquiry into Clothing Needs of 4,700 workers in 15 Occupational Groups, made in March and April 1942 for the Board of Trade

1. Contents
2. Introduction
3. Summary of Findings
4. 1. Pooling of Clothing Coupons in Families, and the Giving and Taking of Coupons.
5. 2. Estimates of Annual Clothing Requirements
6. 3. Spending of Clothing Coupons
7. 4. Occupational Damage to Clothing
8. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 1. Women Engineering Machinists
9. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 2. Men in Heavy Engineering & Shipbuilding
10. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 3. Men in Heavy Engineering and Shipbuilding
11. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 4. Men in Iron & Steel Manufacture
12. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 5. Women in Iron & Steel Manufacture
13. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 6. Men Distributive Workers
14. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 7. Women Distributive Workers
15. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 8. Ironstone Quarry Workers
16. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 9. Limestone Quarry Workers
17. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 10. Clay Quarry Workers
18. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 11. Slate Quarry Workers
19. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 12. Building Trades
20. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 14. Women Agriculturalists
21. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 14. Men Transport Workers
22. Estimated Clothing Requirements - 15. Men Agriculture
23. Causes of Damage to Clothing - Occupational Group 1: Women Engineering Machinists
24. Causes of Damage to Clothing - Occupational Group 2: Men in Heavy Engineering & Ship-building
25. Causes of Damage to Clothing - Occupational Group 4: Men in Iron & Steel Manufacture
26. Causes of Damage to Clothing - Occupational Group 6: Men Distributive Workers
27. Causes of Damage to Clothing - Occupational Group 8: Ironstone Quarry Workers
28. Causes of Damage to Clothing - Occupational Group 10: Clay Quarry Workers
29. Causes of Damage to Clothing - Occupational Group 12: Men in the Building Trade
30. Causes of Damage to Clothing - Occupational Group 13: Women Agriculturists
31. Causes of Damage to Clothing - Occupational Group 14: Men in non-uniformed Commercial and Passenger Transport
32. Factory Conditions of Workers Interviewed - Occupational Group No. 1 - Women: Engineering Machinists
33. Factory Conditions of Workers Interviewed - Occupational Group No. 3 - Women: Heavy Engineering
34. Factory Conditions of Workers Interviewed - Occupational Group No. 5 - Women: Iron and Steel Manufacture
35. Number of Persons in Family
36. Wages (Men and Women): Previous Employment (Women Only)
37. Questionnaire - Part 1
38. Questionnaire - Part 2