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■2-20 III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION.
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forms for the Quinquennial Reports of the Governors of the Läns; and from
the period 1818—22, these were regularly made, and even published down to
the period 1901—05 (see below). Especially for earlier times these constitute
a primary source of knowledge of the general condition of the different läns and
of the whole kingdom, particularly as regards agriculture.
Among other official statistical series of older date may be mentioned the
following: the yearly Mining Reports of the Board, of Mines (printed from 1833
onwards; also various unprinted reports from the latter half of the seventeenth
century); Board of Trade Reports on Factories and Manufactures (printed from
1830 onwards; during the ’Teriod of Liberty", unprinted parliamentary reports;
from 1802, yearly accounts); Board of Trade Reports concerning Commerce and
Navigation (printed from 1831 onwards; previously the Customs Office had returned
brief reports of a similar nature); the Minister of Justice’s Statistical Reports
(printed from 1830 onwards). At the end of the forties and the beginning of
the fifties of the nineteenth century, there began to appear Statistical Reports on
Prisons and Public Health.
On Swedish official statistics in the middle of the nineteenth century
the general judgement may perhaps he passed, that, with the exception
of the demographical statistics, which were in the hands of a special
scientific institution, they were somewhat devoid of plan.
In order to produce a plan for an orderly system of official statistics
there was appointed in 1854 a Statistical Committee, which issued its
report in 1856. This report in important points was made the basis of
the present organization of Swedish official statistics from 1858. The
Tables Archive Commission was dissolved and was replaced by the
Central Bureau of Statistics and the Statistical Preparatory Commission;
the latter consultative authority was reorganized in 1886, under the name
of Statistical Tables Commission (the course of the reorganization is only
given in summary). It was further arranged that all statistical reports
should be published in a similar format under the common title of
Contributions to the Official Statistics of Sweden (Bidrag till Sveriges officiella
statistik), with a special letter for each subject or group of subjects. The
collective work thus named finally comprised the following publications:
A) Population and Vital Statistics, from 1851 onwards (the first report, for
1851—55, was published by the Statistical Tables Commission);
B) Justice, from 1857 onwards;
C) Mining, from 1858 onwards;
D) Manufactures, from 1858 onwards;
E) Inland Navigation and Commerce, from 1858 onwards (entitled Navigation
from 1895 onwards);
F) Foreign Commerce and Navigation, from 1858 onwards (entitled Commerce
from 1895 onwards);
G) Prisons, from 1859 onwards;
H) Quinquennial Reports of the Governors of the Läns (with an abstract for
the whole Kingdom), from the period 1856—60 onwards (the reports ceased after
the 1901—05 period);
I) Telegraphs (and Telephones), from 1861 onwards;
K) Hygiene and Hospitals, from 1861 onwards;
L) State Railways, from 1862 onwards (the reports from 1865 onwards also
contain information concerning the private railways);
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