A History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-46
THE SAMPLE
The sample was designed to represent the adult civilian population of Great Britain at April 1944. An adult was defined as a person who has left school.
Altogether 2,862 persons were interviewed. These were distributed in different groups of the population as follows:-
|
Region
(Ministry of Food Divisions) |
% |
| Scotland | 11 |
| North | 6 |
| North-East | 9 |
| North-West | 14 |
| North-Midlands | 7 |
| Midlands | 10 |
| East Anglia | 6 |
| Wales | 6 |
| South | 5 |
| South-West | 5 |
| South-East | 5 |
| London | 16 |
|
Economic Group
Wage rate of chief wage-earner in family (or pension). |
|
| % | |
| Up to £2.10s. | 12 |
| Over £2.10s to £3.12s. | 21 |
| Over £3.12s to £5 | 43 |
| Over £5. to £10. | 20 |
| Over £10. | 4 |
Factory work (1) Heavy industries and munitions.
(2) All other factory work.
Interviews were made in the following towns and in rural areas around some of them.
Scotland
Glasgow
Dumbarton
Renfrew
Lennoxtown
Kilsyth
Edinburgh
Perth
Kinross
North-East
Leeds
Castleford
Huddersfield
Wakefield
Sheffield
Worksop
Retford
Mexborough
North Midlands
Nottingham
Mansfield
Leicester
Loughborough
Wales
Cardiff
Abertillery
Dowlais
Merthyr Tydfil
South
Basingstoke
Alton
Reading
Wokingham
South East
Maidstone
Rochester
Sevenoaks
Tonbridge
North
Newcastle
Wallsend
Tynemouth
Bishop Auckland
Spennymoor
North-West
Manchester
Ashton-under-Lyme
Salford
Stockport
Liverpool
Widnes
Warrington
Preston
Bolton
Accrington
Darwen
Midlands
Birmingham
Tamworth
Wolverhampton
Dudley
Wednesbury
Warwick
Stratford-on-Avon
East Anglia
Bedford
Ampthill
Ipswich
Felixstowe
South-West
Bristol
Clevedon
Chippenham
Portishead
Exeter
Newton Abbot
London
City
Islington
Poplar
Wimbledon
Finchley
Chelsea
Chiswick
Southwark
Leytonstone