ABSTRACT
The statistical material is limited in several respects. In spite of so many qualifications the following analysis is offered as a first statistical attempt to shed light on an important aspect of the journey to work. The absenteeism rate drops from the group with the shortest journeys to the next one and again from the fourth to the last group. The high incidence of long daily journeys on older employees as is found prevailing at Carreras must not, therefore, be generalised without further investigation. The radiation of daily journeys from individual homes has not so far been the subject of investigation. The statistical material is limited in several respects. The data refer to 1929-1930, the survey is restricted to working-class families, the classification being based on the occupation of the father; this means that the families include children engaged in non-manual occupations.
