MISC. PUBLICATION 4, U. 8. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



Table 1. — Proportion of women making certain garments for women and for girla 

 over 14 years of age, and for children, as reported by Tucker (/), by Hastie and 

 Gorton {9), and as found by the Bureau of Home Economics 



1 138 did not give size of community. 

 I Grouped as " Undergarments." 



• Undergarments and sleeping garments. 



The general results from rural and village families in regard to 

 garincnts made for adults are close in all three surveys, the greatest 

 variation in any two groups being slightly more than 22 per cent for 

 skirts and blouses. It would, therefore, appear that tlie rural and 

 vUlugo families studied by the Bureau of Home Economics were 

 representative and that the factors influencing the home sewing 

 being done by them were typical of present conditions. 



The great difTcrcnces between rural and city families of the Hastie- 

 Gorton survey and also between the city groups of that survey and 

 those of the liurcau of Homo Economics survey may be due to the 

 fact that 70 per cent of the city answers of the Hastio-Gorton report 

 came from one cit,y. 



The least difTcrence found for any one garment by the diiTerent 

 surveys was for silk dresses, which was 15.6 per cent. The variation 

 in wool dresses was 21.3 per cent. 



It is diflicult to interpret the difTerences reported in the amount 

 of children's clothing made, since the percentage of families having 

 children and the number of children in each was not dctennincd in 

 all the surveys. Tucker reports the average number of children per 

 family investigated as 2.9 and tiic average number in the family as 4.02. 

 Hastie and Gorton give no data on the subject. The percentage 

 of families not having children 14 3'^ears of age and yoimger studied 

 in the Bureau of Iloiuo Economics survey is given in Table 3, and the 

 size of the families studied is given in Table o. 



