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Index numbers of rates of wages for various classes of labour in Canada, 1913 to 1936

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Index numbers of rates of wages for various classes of labour in Canada, 1913 to 1936
	Coal mining	Common factory labour	Miscella-neous factory trades	Logging and sawmilling	General Average, Weighted¹
	index (1913=100)
1913	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
1914	101.9	101.0	103.2	94.7	101.3
1915	102.3	101.0	106.2	89.1	102.2
1916	111.7	110.4	115.1	109.5	109.5
1917	130.8	129.2	128.0	130.2	125.6
1918	157.8	152.3	146.8	150.5	147.2
1919	170.5	180.2	180.2	169.8	173.4
1920	197.7	215.3	216.8	202.7	207.7
1921	208.3	190.6	202.0	152.6	189.9
1922	197.8	183.0	189.1	158.7	180.2
1923	197.8	181.7	196.1	170.4	184.2
1924	192.4	183.2	197.6	183.1	186.4
1925	167.6	186.3	195.5	178.7	185.1
1926	167.4	187.3	196.7	180.8	186.3
1927	167.9	187.7	199.4	182.8	190.4
1928	168.9	187.1	200.9	184.3	192.2
1929	168.9	187.8	202.1	185.6	196.0
1930	169.4	188.2	202.3	183.9	197.1
1931	169.4	183.4	197.3	163.0	189.1
1932	164.0	173.6	184.3	141.3	177.7
1933	161.9	168.1	175.7	121.7	168.3
1934	162.9	170.8	180.5	145.1	170.5
1935	165.8	174.9	184.7	152.3	175.4
1936	165.9	179.7	188.8	165.9	178.6
Note: Rates of wages in 1913=100. Index numbers for 1901 to 1912 were given at p. 674 of the 1932 Year Book.
1. Weighted according to average numbers of workers in each group in 1921 and 1931.
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book, 1937.