Appendix C - The extent to which Miners and their Wives come from Mining Families

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Wartime Social Survey
RG 23/85 - The Recruitment of Boys to the Mining Industry, An inquiry carried out in Six Coalfields for the Directorate of Recruitment, Ministry of Fuel and Power, and the National Coal Board, August-October 1946, April 1947.

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APPENDIX C
The extent to which Miners and their Wives come from Mining Families

The following table indicates that four out of every five miners come from mining families, in that their fathers were miners before them, and that nearly the same proportions of miners’ wives came from mining families.

A considerable proportion of the non-mining parents in the coalfields also came from mining families.

In general, the figures agree very closely with data on the same subject derived from a survey of Scottish Mining Communities, which was carried out by the Social Survey in 1945.

Occupation of the parents’ Fathers, Analysed according to non-mining people, mining people by sex.

Occupation of parents’ Fathers	Total		Occupation of parents
			All non- mining		Mining
					Male		Female
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Mining	1,791	69	239	42	490	81	1,062	75
Non-mining	785	30	322	57	107	18	356	25
Unclassified	17	1	5	1	5	1	7	-
SAMPLES	2,593	100	566	100	602	100	1,425	100

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APPENDIX C The extent to which Miners and their Wives come from Mining Families

Occupation of the parents’ Fathers, Analysed according to non-mining people, mining people by sex.

APPENDIX C
The extent to which Miners and their Wives come from Mining Families