The standard daily outturn for copyists in typing 28 sheets in English, 23 1/3 sheets in Hindi or other language, writing 16 sheets or comparing 87 sheets of 240 words each. In order to reduce the monotony and increase the outturn it is desirable that all copyists should be given both copying and comparing work everyday. On this basis a pair of copyists should be able to give an average daily outturn of 34 sheets typed in English or 30 typed sheets in Hindi or other language and compared, or 24 sheets written and compared. For estimating the staff required and for similar calculations, a deduction of 10 per cent may be made from the above figure to allow for absentees on casual leave and inexperienced men in leave vacancies and the average outturn of a copyist may be taken as 15 sheets typed in English or 13½ sheets typed in Hindi or other language and compared, or 11 sheets written and compared.
