Table 1 Saengsan-ban (production groups), Tolgyok-dae (brigades) and total households in 1946

            Saensang-ban               Tolgyok-dae           F.  Total
           A. No. of  B. No. of   C.   D. No. of  E. No. of  households
             groups   members    B/F    groups   members      ('000)
Province               ('000)    (%)               ('000)
S. P'yongan  13,258    261.3     98.7    2,498    115.6        264.8
                       (19.7)                      (46.3)
N. P'yongan  17,865    303.7     87.3    2,938    153.8        347.8
                       (17.0)                      (52.4)       
Hwanghae      9,518    262.3     82.8    4,686    126.3        316.9
                       (27.6)                      (27.0)
Kangwon      10,635    207.9     92.8    2,135     29.4        224.1
                       (19.6)                      (13.8)
S.Hamgyong   20,965    213.8     74.0    2,272     30.3        289.0
                       (10.2)                      (13.4)
N.Hamgyong    7,248     25.2     13.9    2,235     30.9        181.4
                       (3.5)                       (13.8)
Total        79,489  1,274.2     78.1   16,764    486.3      1,631.5
                       (16.0)                      (29.0)

Note: Total households do not include those residing in P'yongyang. Inside the parentheses in Columns B and E are B/A (average size of saensang-ban) and E/D (average size of tolgyok-dae), respectively.
Sources: Sahoe kwahak-won (1981, 360); Hallim Taehakkyo (1994, 20).