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...United States Senate. In all these tables index numbers are used to condense the results into a relative statement. The "Economist" makes use of the quotations on twenty-two articles, and uses as its standard of comparison the average prices between 1845 and 1850. The great objection to the method of the "Economist" is, that in considering the twenty-two articles it gives equal weight to commodities which are very unequal in importance as, for instance, wheat and indigo. Sauerbeck's method is the same as that of the "Economist," except that for his basic number he has taken average...
...leadership of Mr. Llewelyn Smith who is making an exhaustive search for correct data of hours and earnings of labor. In 1891 the Bureau of Labor was established in France. Specially trained agents are employed for thorough personal investigation and the results are classified according to the American method. In Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Canada, and Australasia a movement is on foot for the establishment of reliable official systems for the collection of statistics. Thus far, only the United States and the first three countries named--England, France and Belgium are on the system. Among these the data...
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...
...individual laborers was ascertained without any accompanying record of the number of men and women receiving particular wages. The work of Dr. Bodio in compiling Italian statistics of labor twelve years ago, though considered valuable at that time, is now entirely discredited on account of his incorrect method of classification. The great development in the treatment of wages statistics has come from this side of the water. Entering upon a field new and unexplored, the American statistician gradually evolved the system of individual classification with the concentration method. For this method there is a classification of weekly wages...
...great desideratum of statisticians is some common method for presentation and tabulation of figures which can be used everywhere. In this way only can an exact comparison of wages be made. For purely economic purposes use can be made of "positions"--that is, using as a theoretic unit the laborer who works at standard wages for a standard length of time. For social purposes however, there can be no theory in the compilation of figures and we must consider the number of laborers and their time of labor strictly according to truth. When some uniform system has been used...