43,655,822 137,933.906) 249,409,045 Employment Status of the Population 14 Years Old and Over, March 24-30, 1940 Source: United States Bureau of the Census (Estimates based on a preliminary tabulation of a 5 per cent cross-section of the 1940 census returns. Numbers less than 20,000, indicated by an asterisk (*), are based on relatively small samples, and are subject to error). Persons 14 years old and over in the labor force Pct. of labor force United States. Total urban Cities of 1,000,000 or more. New York, N. Y. Chicago, IL Philadelphia, Pa. Los Angeles, Calif Cities of 500,000 to 1,000,000 Citles of 250,000 to 500,000. Cities of 100,000 to 250,000. Other urban.. Rural-nonfarm. Rural-farm. 100,972,196 52,840,762 52.3 45,350,430 85.8 2,380,062 5,110,270 48,131,434 59,610,637 32,613,234 54.7 27,666,402 84.8 1,338,919 12,976,520 7,381,178 56.9; 6,135,363.83.1) 3,607,913 26,997.403 1,022,324 5,595.342 223.491 6,092.372 3,482.885 57.2 2,852,658 81.9 96.451 2,775,496 1,596,655 57.5 1,356,898 85.0 59.884 1,556,110 877,163 56.4 705,899, 80.5 21,585 533,776 2,609,487 179,873 1,178,841 149,679 678,947 731,654 57.0 625,406 85.5 27,763 78,485 551,491 692.821 54.6 594,502 85.8 *17.808 80,511 576,576 2,471,299 83.7 125,598 354,778 2,319,005 6,367,355 3,549,029 55.7 3.000,547 84.5 151.357 397,125 2,818,326 147,303 373,372 2,785,589 691,170 1,460.314 13,479,141 1,035,199 10,349,881 467,158 10,784,150 The proportion of males in the 1940 labor force in each of the 92 cities was smaller than the proportion who were gainful workers in 1930. difference between the 1930 and the 1940 proporThe tions exceeded eight percentage points in Columbus and New Bedford; on the other hand, they were only slightly more than two percentage points in Youngstown and Norfolk. In nearly every city for which data are presented by color, the differences between the 1930 and 1940 proportions for white males were smaller than the corresponding differences for nonwhite males. In the majority of the 92 large cities, the percentage of women in the labor force in 1940 ex 657,715 383,428 ceeded the percentage reported as gainful workers in 1930. In most of the cities for which the nonwhite samples were large enough to afford reliable estimates, the percentages for white females in 1940 were about the same as, or slightly larger than, those for 1930. On the other hand, the proportion of nonwhite female workers was smaller in 1940 than in 1930 in all of the cities with the exception of Richmond, where the proportion was 52.5 percent in 1930 and 56.3 percent in 1940. and Los Angeles, where the proportions were about the same. The 1940 figures are estimates based on a preliminary tabulation of a five percent cross-section of the population enumerated in each of the census enumeration districts. CHIEF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN THE UNITED STATES, IN 1939-(Continued) No data for employees of central administrative offices are included. 442,966,593 The 1939 Census of Manufactures questionnaire, for the first time, called for personnel employed in distribution, construction, etc., separately from the manufacturing employees of the plants, and therefore, the data probably are not strictly comparable. It is not known how many of the wage earners and the salaried employees reported for 1937 were engaged in distribution and construction and how many were engaged in manufacturing. Employees of the plants reportd as engaged in distribution and construction activities in 1939 are not included in this preliminary report but will be included in the final report. Profits or losses cannot be calculated from the census figures because no data are collected for certain expense items, such as interest, rent, depreciation, taxes, insurance, and advertising. The aggregates for cost of materials and value of products include large but indeterminable amounts of duplication due to the use of the products of some industries as material by others. This duplication occurs, as a rule, between different industries, and is not found to any great extent in individual industries. Developed Water Power in the United States Source: Federal Power Commission; data are as of Jan. 1, 1941 Water Pits. Capacity States Water Pits. Water Wheel Capacity 151,431 N. Y.. 388 1,843,787 Wash... 76 1,214,504 104 1,033,320 W. Va. 184 637,527 N, D. 0 Wisc.. Calif. 139 2,438,261 Md.. 6 404,427 Ohio. 22 25,195 Wyo.. 171 12 307,615 174 515,189 13 69,503 Colo. 56 110,824 Mass 214 388,911 Okla. 3 2,772 Conn. 90 178,673 Mich 159 533,865 Oreg. 78 587,793 U. S... 2,801 18,868,027 Del. 2 1,000 Minn. 64 262,420 Pa. 47 607,303 Outlying Territories D. of C. 3 6.030 Miss. 0 OR. I. 48 25,067 Alaska. 301 46,082 Fla.. 4 21,768 Mo. 81 247,253 S. C. 57 838,549 Hawail.. 29 31,768 Ga. 56 597,609 Mont. 23 501,857 S. D. 10 19,463 P. Isl.. 4 26,680 Idaho.. 68 393,417 Nebr. 47 120,250 Tenn 28 694,406 P. R.. 13 42,544 Ill. 33 93,953 Nev. 10 708,830 Texas. 26 120,460 Ind. 29 53,117 N. H 149 478,537 Utah 61 142,972 Iowa.. 38 207,154 N. J 20 16,341 Vt.. 126 267,911 Kan 16 13,019 N. M. 7 35,683 Va. 61 282,301 Gr. tot.. 2,877 19,015,101 Installed water-wheel capacity in previous years-(1926) 11,176,596; (1930) 13,807,778; (1935) 16,075,307; (1940) 18,500,254. Production of Electric Energy in the U. S. The installed capacity of electricity generating plants in 1939 (Dec. 31) (kilowatts) was: hydro, 11,415,165; steam, 28,046,948; internal combustion, 855,811; total-40,317,924: The installed capacity in 1939 (kilowatts) was thus divided: privately owned, 35,363,171 (of which electric utilities was 33,907,963); publicly owned, 4,954,753 (of which municipal utilities was 2,806,852). The average consumption of fuel per kilowatt-hour for 1939 was 1.39 pounds. This is based on the coal and coal equivalent of all oil and gas used and the output by all fuel plants except that produced by wood. These figures are 59,514,000 tons of fuel and 85,800,000,000 kilowatt-hours. Of the 1940 kw. hours (1,000) privately owned plants produced 127,642,231; federally owned, 5,289,885; municipal, 6,187,844; State projects, 1,175,417; non-central stations, 1,395,371. Electricity Sold in the United States in 1940 The total production of electric energy in the State of New York in 1940 (kilowatt hours) was 18,993,978,000, according to the Federal Power Commission. Residential users numbered 24,850,500 ($791,992,501); commercial. 4,175,198 ($729,581,139); industrial, 065.790 ($841,075,753). |