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The construction of statistics by official means was first taken up by Belgium in 1846 in a very thorough industrial investigation. Here there was a minute classification according to wages received and a grouping by age and sex. The system was not used again for years, however. The work of...
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...
As to the opinion which has at one time or another gained ground--that there is "juggling" done occasionally with the figures in statistical offices--there is this to say. "Juggling" with facts is impossible. The agents could send in no false figures to the central office for they would...
*Lecture. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Mr. E. Robinson. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum, 8 p.m.
Lecture. IV. Value of the Various Collections of Wages Statistics. Hon. Carroll D. Wright. Harvard 1, 8 p.m.