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III. CONSTITUTION AND ADMINISTRATION.
The former comprises for the present the following principal divisions:
Synopses of the Development of the Kingdom; Population; Eygiene and. Hospitals;
Real Property; Surveying; Agriculture and Cattle-breeding; Forestry; Industry and
Mining; Commerce; Navigation; Pilots; Public Road and Water Construction
works; Highways and Posting Stations; Railways; Post; Telephones and
Telegraphs; Savings-Banks; Insurance; Pious Foundations; Social Statistics; Poor
Relief; Justice; Prisons; Education; General Elections; Finances; Local
Government.
The second series comprises for the present the following sub-series:
Series A. Occasional Statistical Investigations ;
Series B. (not yet assigned);
Series C. Monthly Trade Statistics;1
Series D. Railway Statistical Returns;
Series E. Banking Returns;
Series E. Social Returns.
The Swedish official statistics are in the hand of many various Boards;
the task of obtaining uniformity rests with the Statistical Tables
Commission (under the presidency of the Chief of the Central Bureau of Statistics).
The principal organs for the elaboration of these statistics are at present,
the Central Bureau of Statistics, the Industrial Statistics Section of the
Board of Trade, and the Social Statistics Section of the Social Board.
According to the instructions of November 7, 1879. November 22. 1912.
September 19, 1913 and November 17. 1914 the function of the Central
Bureau of Statistics is to perform the statistical work which is not under
the care of any other office, including in particular statistics relating to
population, real property, agriculture, fisheries, highways and posting
stations, private savings-banks, justice, elections, and finance. Moreover,
the Central Bureau has to issue a statistical year-book and to elaborate a
quinquennial survey of the development of the Kingdom during the
preceding five years etc.
From 1913 onwards, the Industrial Statistics Section of the Board of
Trade has been re-organized, in accordance with the instructions dated
November 22, 1912, as an independent bureau whose function it is to edit
the yearly reports concerning commerce, navigation, mining, and industry,
to look after other matters in the sphere of industrial statistics, for
instance, special investigations on industries (cf. also note below), and to
keep an industrial register.
The Social Board (which was evolved, as shown above, out of the
Labour Statistics Branch of the Board of Trade) has imposed upon it by the
instructions of November 8, 1912 "to collect and arrange information, ami
to carry out statistical and other investigations concerning both labour
! The principal title is "Swedish Imports and Exports of Certain Goods". The
publication now forms part of the Commercial Returns issued (since 1914) by the Board of
Trade, and also containing accounts of the more important business transacted by the Board
and especially preliminary statements from its industrial statistics; the reports of consuls,
commercial attachés, and the like; surveys of the economic situation ("Crisis Barometer");
reports of various Commodity and Money markets; and notices touching industrial life and
industrial policy.
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