1. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SAMPLE

2. URBAN AND RURAL DISTRIBUTION

3. PARENT OR GUARDIAN INTERVIEWED: By SOCIAL CLASS *

*A Class. Typical occupations: Owner of factory or large retail shop; business executives, managers, and assistant managers; bankers, stockbrokers, professional men, e. g., higher grade civil servants, medical general practitioners, etc.

Other characteristics: Detached or semi - detached house of more expensive kind in suburbs with at least 8 rooms; or comfortable or luxury central flat in good district. At least one maid; telephone, medium or higher priced car in normal times.

B Class. Owner of small or medium sized shop; owner of small workshop; younger members of professions; technical and managerial staff in business concerns; executive and higher clerical civil servants; bulk of middle aged and elder bank and insurance officials; key workers in certain trades.

Detached or semi-detached house, 5 - 8 rooms with garden. Flat in inner suburbs or cottage dwelling in less congested parts of town. Regular maid rare and usually no telephone, occasional domestic help. Children usually at secondary school.

C class. Foremen in most trades; skilled workmen, building and distributive trade workers; bank clerks, draughts men, secretaries and non - junior typists; lower grade blackcoated workers; owners of small retail shops; lower grade civil servants.

No maid or telephone. Occasional domestic help. House reasonably well kept, house and street definitely superior in character to D. 4 - 6 room house, 3 - 5 room flat. House semidetached in suburbs or more commonly in row. Small garden in less congested areas. Children usually at elementary school.

D class. Lower grade office and warehouse clerical staff; semiskilled and unskilled in most employments, semi - skilled in seasonal trades.

Chapter council houses or elder houses in rows, or tenements, 2 - 4 rooms. No garden as a rule, poorer working class areas, including slums.

4. SOCIAL CLASS AND INCOME

Investigators were asked to classify informants by social class, basing their classification on the general appearance of the house, the number of rooms in the house, the possession of garage, telephone, maid, etc., the kind of neighbourhood, and the dress and manner of the informant.

The distribution of classes in the sample is

Additionally, informants were asked to state to which of the following income groups they belonged:-

The number not answering, per class, was A: 1, B: 17, C: 38, D: 47. Of those answering, the distribution of incomes by social class is:-

5. NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN FAMILY

6. AGE GROUPS OF CHILDREN

The proportions of children under and over 5 years of age are:

The Statistics of Population compiled from the national Register of 1939 shows, for the same areas, the following proportions: