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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
Statistics.
Of the origin of
Swedish Statistic* of
■population (during 1738/
56) and of the high
value which from its
very first appearance
must be attributed to
it we have above (p.
197) given an account.
Archbishop E.
Benzelius (1675/1743) was
the first to enter upon
this new field of
research; the plan of
organization was laid ont
by P. Elvius (1710/
49) and followed up by
the Astronomer P. V.
Wargentin (1717/83),
who also subjected the
new material to a
scientific treatment.* To this
day, the Swedish
Statistics of Population is
not only the most
comprehensive and
authentic, but also the most
completely worked ont
that any nation
possesses.
In other statistical
branches, Sweden
certainly does not take the
same high position as in
demography, but even
in them we meet an
uncommon wealth of
statements from olden
times and a rare continuity of the work. Also Swedish Statistics of to-day
holds, in most cases, good when compared to that of other countries. Our factory
Statistics, that gives an account every year on the number of factories and their
hands, and also of the quantities as well as of the value of the manufactures, is
the most complete of the kind that any country can present. A speciality of Swedish
Statistics are the quinquennial reports of the province governors, ordered to be
made out already in 1634, and regularly published since 1822.
* Wargentin’» Tables of Mortality, the oldcBt rationally computed ones existing, hive
often been unfavourably mentioned as unscientific, especially by German authors. In «n
article by G. Eneström — >P. W. Wargentin und die sogenannte Halley’sche Methode>, 1899 —
it has lately been shown that these attacks are only founded on a misconception.
Peter Vilhelm Wargentin.
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