Indiana University Studies 



The purpose of this stiicly is, first, to establish a fact basis 

 for the consideration of vocational education and the development 

 of vocational schools and courses in Indiana ; second, to serve as 

 a reference and compendium of information concerning the people 

 of the State and their occupations; and, third, to isolate specific 

 problems requiring further study and investigation. 



The facts herein recorded may be used as a basis for determin- 

 ing the general content of courses in elementary industrial art, 

 pre-vocational courses in agriculture, industry, commerce, domestic 

 and personal service, and vocational courses in constant" occupa- 

 tional pursuits in the State. Since the occupational data concern 

 the State as a whole, the facts are useful only in a general way 

 for determining the specific day, part-time, and continuation voca- 

 tional courses adapted to local communities. 



As a compendium of information, it records the population 

 facts of number, sex, age, residence in rural and urban com- 

 munities, nativity, and illiteracy. It also records occupational 

 facts showing actual and relative distribution of workers in the 

 nine groups of occupations, the specific pursuits in each of the 

 nine groups, together with the number of males and females so 

 engaged, the number of boys and girls, youths, men. and women 

 in each pursuit, and the number and percentage of skilled, un- 

 skilled, and semiskilled workers in the industrial occupations as 

 well as the number of helpers and apprentices. Concerning manu- 

 facturing establishments, it records the number and distribution 

 of factories in places of various sizes, an enumeration of the 

 types of factories on the basis of the product, the number of 

 males and females employed in each of the types of factories, the 

 amount of wages paid workers, and the value of the manufactured 

 products. The manufacturing enterprises in which Indiana ranks 

 first, second, and third, compared with all States in the Union, are 

 also specified. 



No. 26 



BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA 



February 15, 1915 



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