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OFFICIAL STATISTICS.
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conditions within various branches of employment and other questions
falling within the province of the office". The Board is organized in four
bureaus, of which one for social statistics. The statistical publications of
the Board are entitled "Social statistics" and "Social Returns". Alongside
of the Board there is to be a Social Council, having as its functions to give
its opinion and to make suggestions as regards matters referred to its
consideration, and also generally to assist the Board with information and
practical proposals. One of the sections or committees of that Council
deals with social statistics and consists of five members (two
representatives of employers, two of employees, and a fifth member), with the same
number of deputies.
With regard to the other statistical sections appertaining to the
different departments or offices, it suffices to mention the following.
The preparation of Judicial Statistics was entrusted to a special
bureau for the statistical business within the Department of Justice ever
since the establishment of that department in 1840; from 1914, this branch
of statistics is transferred to the Central Bureau of Statistics. The issue of
Educational Statistics is entrusted to a secretary in the Ecclesiastical
Department. The statistical publications of the Railway Board are
managed by a statistical office under a First Actuary; and it is a First
Actuary, too, that edits the Postal Statistics.
Here a few words may be added about communal statistics. This branch
of public statistics has not, as a rule, been taken out of the hands of the
local administrative authorities in Sweden, with the exception of
Stockholm, where there has been constituted on a broad basis a special statistical
office, the Municipal Bureau of Statistics of Stockholm (1905), whose
functions, according to its formal instructions, are "to collect, treat
scientifically, and publish particulars illustrative of the corporate life,
administration, and social and economic conditions of Stockholm". Owing to the
fact that the functions of the office have been formulated in such general
terms, business of very varied kinds has been gradually handed over to
the management of the office, whose field of activity has thus been
extended considerably beyond the sphere of statistics proper.
In Gothenburg the communal statistical organ consists of a permanent
statistical commission; and in Malmö, too, a similar institution is at work
and consists of a commission for the issue of a communal year-book.
It would thus seem as if the governing bodies in Swedish towns are
beginning to perceive more and more clearly the importance of a really
organized service of communal statistics for a well-ordered communal
administration.
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