ON THE AMOUNT AND DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME. 



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The following table shows the whole population over ten years old 

 as it was in 1901 : — 



1901.— Persons over 10 Years Old* 000'f 



* Children (if any) under ten years in Ireland returned as occupied are also included. 



t For the United Kingdom the numbers are corrected, as far as possible, by 

 including estimates for the Army, Navy, and Merchant Service afloat or abroad, 

 from the General Report of the Census. 



Most of our information as to incomes refers to 1909 or 1910. To 

 bring the census table up to the end of 1909 we must add 8£ per cent. 

 in accordance with official estimates. This shows 4,910,000 persons 

 (4,530,000 x 1*085) in either the income-tax paying or in the inter- 

 mediate group, and about 15,300,000 wage-earners, male or female. 

 Actually we have assumed that the numbers in class 20 (farmers) have 

 remained unchanged, and have added about 10 per cent, in the case of 

 all the other classes ; this gives a general increase of 8'6 per cent. 



