Cooperation and Unification in Federal and State Statistical Work: A Paper Read at the Nineteenth Annual Convention of the Commissioners of State Labor Bureaus ...

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Page ix - ... first session after such enumeration, and also after each enumeration made by the authority of the United States, the Legislature shall apportion and district anew the members of the Senate and Assembly...
Page ix - An enumeration of the inhabitants for this purpose shall be made in the year nineteen hundred and one, and shall be made in the course of every tenth year thereafter, in such manner as shall be by law directed: Provided, That the General Assembly may at any time, in its discretion, adopt the immediately preceding United States Census as a true and correct enumeration of the inhabitants of the several Counties...
Page viii - The Legislature shall provide for an enumeration of all the inhabitants of the State by counties for the year 1895, and every ten years thereafter.
Page iii - Commonwealth, especially in its relations to the commercial, industrial, social, educational and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and to the permanent prosperity of the productive industry of the Commonwealth.
Page 16 - Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed by the President to take into consideration the case of FM Speed, a student who was expelled for alleged improper conduct, with the view of granting him an honorable dismissal, provided that upon investigation it shall be made evident that he is entitled thereto; also, that said Committee report during the present session of the Board. Committee...
Page xxiii - ... There shall be a collection of the statistics of the births and deaths in registration areas annually, the data for which shall be obtained only from and restricted to such registration records of such States and municipalities as in the discretion of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare possess records affording satisfactory data in necessary detail...
Page 9 - Resolved by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States hereby expresses approval of this movement and requests the favorable consideration and action of the State authorities, to the end that the United States may attain a complete and uniform system of registration.
Page 6 - In whatever direction we turn, we find this absence of uniformity, this lack of system, which originated in the separate organization of independent states and independent communities within the states. The...
Page i - Manufactures, under the direction of the Secretary, to foster, promote, and develop the various manufacturing industries of the United States, and markets for the same at home and abroad, by gathering and publishing all available and useful information concerning such industries and markets; and, through the Secretary of State, to gather and compile from the reports of consular officers and commercial agents such valuable and material information as will accomplish the objects above set forth.
Page 8 - It only means that the expenditure shall be uniformly made. At every point where the census work touches the statistical work of" any bureau, board, or commission in any state, there the effort should be made to secure uniformity in schedules of inquiry, uniformity in methods of tabulation, uniformity in date of investigation, and thus uniformity in results, and a basis for the comparative use of the statistics. Thus every state canvass would supplement every national canvass, and the actual practical...

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