This is what I have so far and the shoe types are boots, wellingtons, leather, trainers (in that order)

I want to iterate through and assign the value so I haves something like

var shoeArray = { boots : '3', wellingtons: '0', leather : '1', trainers: '3'};

at the moment I just get an array of {3,0,1,3} which I can work with but it is not very helpful.

function shoe_types() {

    var shoeArray = [];

    $('[type=number]').each(function(){

        $('span[data-field='+$(this).attr('id')+']').text($(this).val());      

        shoeArray.push ( parseInt($(this).val()) );      

    });             

    return shoeArray;        

}