Word: censuses
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About twenty men are needed to work for two hours today and tomorrow and three days of next week on the religious census of Boston, which is being taken at the present time. Men willing to help in this work are asked to leave their names with G. E. Huggins at Phillips Brooks House between 11 and 12 o'clock today or Monday...
...Economics for the best treatise on "The relative interests of the people of Massachusetts in a protective tariff, such as now exists, or in the simplest form of tariff for revenue only; to be worked out by analyses of occupations as given in the population volume of the census, coupled with analyses of manufactures as given in that volume...
Official compellation of statistics, although begun in the United States with the census of 1810, never attained any great degree of accuracy until after 1885 when the classification method had become thoroughly established. Now, in addition to the United States Department of Labor which was organized in 1884, there are in this country many other reliable statistical offices--almost every state having...
...laborers is found to be employed on the lowest class of labor. When applied to all industries the concentration system shows the weight of numbers to be on a higher grade of labor. This form of table is now used in the United States, in Federal and State census; and also in England and various continental countries. It does not eliminate the use of the "average" which many statisticians distrust; but the average becomes valuable when used over a term of years since it indicates the variations in the earning capacity of labor...
...rates of wages which are paid in the same manufacturing concern. In some mills, for instance, weavers are paid from 60 cents to $1.49 a day, there being perhaps fifty rates between the two extremes. Calculations can be made here only on the basis of average. The United States Census deals only with the statistics of wages relating to manufacturing but even here the method used is faulty and is a makeshift for the correct system, which is impossible of consumtion. The problems of collecting railroad wage statistics are also perplexing on account of the great variety in the grades...